Stanford Psychology Podcast

183 - William Damon: How to Live a Purposeful Life

This week, Katia Kriakova has a conversation with William Damon, a professor at Stanford University. He is one of the world's leading researchers on human developmen

182 - Bill Burnett: How to Design a Meaningful Life

This week, Katia has a conversation with Bill Burnett, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the co-founder of Stanford's Life Design Lab and also the c

181 - Nomisha Kurian: Critical Hope for the Future of Children & AI

Adani chats with Nomisha Kurian, Assistant Professor in Education Studies at the University of Warwick, Associate Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centr

180 - Andrew Lampinen: Translating Cognitive Psychology to AI

In this episode, Elizabeth chats with Dr. Andrew Lampinen as a part of our Alumni in Industry series. Andrew is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Prior

179 - Cynthia Osborne: Translating Evidence Into Early Childhood Policy

Adani chats with Cynthia Osborne, Professor at Vanderbilt University and Executive Director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center. Prof. Osborne’s work focuses on tra

178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Julia Nolte, Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at Tilburg University. Julia’s research examines how information management, risk p

177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)

In this re-air (but more timely than ever!) episode from 2021, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Depart

176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

Adani chats with Elizabeth Bonawitz, Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth’s work focuses on basic theories of learning with t

175 - Nicholas Epley: A Little More Social

Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He studies soc

174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

In this reair episode from 2023, Eric chats with Amit Goldenberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Amit studies emotions in soci

173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

In this reair episode, Eric chats with Juliana Schroeder, Associate Professor in the Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. She studies how people think about the

172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for build

171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. S

170 - Marginalia Episode: Erica Bailey on Authenticity (REAIR)

Marginalia Episodes are in collaboration with Marginalia Science! Marginalia Science is a community committed to promoting the work of scholars who are traditionally unde

169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

Adani chats with Tamar Kushnir, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Tamar’s research spans pretty much everything you can imagine: Cognitive deve

168 - Robin Dunbar: How Many People Can You Be Friends With? (REAIR)

In this re-air episode from 2022, Eric chats with Robin Dunbar, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford. Robin has famously studied the evolution of the h

167 - Nicky Sullivan: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Real-World Impact

Anjie chats with Dr. Nicky Sullivan, senior researcher at Impact Justice, a national non-profit innovation and research center focused on transforming the U.S. criminal j

166 - Steve Rathje: The Psychology of Virality

Su chats with Dr. Steve Rathje. Dr. Rathje is an incoming Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Universit

165 – Ying Wong: From Cultural Psychology to Global Business

Anjie chats with Dr. Ying Wong, founder and CEO of B.peachy and former cultural psychologist. Ying received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford in 2007, where she studied

164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?

Adani chats with Dr. Susan Engel, a Senior Lecturer and Senior Faculty Fellow in Psychology at Williams College. Susan’s research spans many areas, including the developm