The student-led Stanford Psychology Podcast invites leading psychologists to talk about what’s on their mind lately. Join Eric Neumann, Anjie Cao, Kate Petrova, Bella Fascendini, Joseph Outa and Julia Rathmann-Bloch as they chat with their guests about their latest exciting work. Every week, an episode will bring you new findings from psychological science and how they can be applied to everyday life. The opinions and views expressed in this podcast represent those of the speaker and not necessarily Stanford's. Subscribe at stanfordpsypod.substack.com. Let us hear your thoughts at stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @StanfordPsyPod. Visit our website https://stanfordpsychologypodcast.com. Soundtrack: Corey Zhou (UCSD). Logo: Sarah Wu (Stanford)
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184 - Tamar Schapiro: What Philosophy Can(not) Tell us About Children, Adults, and the Root of All Evil
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In this week’s episode, Julie and Adani chat with Tamar Schapiro, professor of philosophy at MIT! Tamar is interested in a wide range of things, from what it means to mak
Sep 18 48 min
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
Sep 3 50 min
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
Aug 21 1 h 08 min
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
Aug 7 50 min
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
Jul 24 39 min
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
Jul 9 52 min
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
Jun 26 1 h 01 min
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
Jun 12 40 min
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
May 30 46 min
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
May 14 56 min
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
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
Apr 3 46 min
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
Mar 20 37 min
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
Mar 6 39 min
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
Feb 20 50 min
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
Feb 6 47 min
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
Jan 23 1 h 12 min
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
Jan 8 38 min
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
Dec 19 2025 1 h 06 min
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
Dec 4 2025 29 min
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I found you via episode 69- in a word, fabulous (truly the right word, by the way).
The professor is actuallu genial (and I use that word so infrequently), because he really embodies cross disciplinary and profound perspectives and knowledge as well as a sensitivity, nuance and humor that characterizes real intelligence and he in no way exudes that arid, merely cerebral accademia-speak that for me often betrays a lack of deeper, life-relevant, humanizing knowledge.
The interviewer is equally expressive of those wonderful qualities of curiosity, vulnerability, and thirst for knowledge while integrating the personal quest for locating oneself in the world end finding wisdom. That's what's so strong about this episode and both of its interlocutors: they play with, explore, and share real conversation that embodies those lovely qualities and is therefore both exceptionally engaging as well as both intellectually and personally/spiritually enriching and relevant.
Thank you for existing as a group and a project, and for sharing this podcast as a creative work which is a gift.
pb&j sammie · Feb 2023
I think the value of any podcast like this ultimately comes down to the ability of the interviewer to ask interesting questions and adapt their plan to in real time based on the answers from the guest. If you like psychological science and want to know more about what leading researchers in different researchers are doing, what they have learned along the way, and where they’re going next and why, I highly recommend this podcast. Great interviews about the latest research and thinking from some of the world’s most insightful psychologists.
paungle · Feb 2023
After listening, I had a significant realization about my own mental processes. I discovered that I am subconsciously experiencing a form of cognitive dissonance. This episode was truly epiphanic!!
Kari Rio · Mar 2025
“Never replace in-school education.” “The humanity of me as a teacher understanding the needs of my students is going to be the hardest thing to replicate… I can now provide my students a microscopic understanding of a phenomenon.”
“Idea first, language second.” My heart leaped throughout this podcast. Professor Brown speaks to balance, insight and understanding. Thank you.
thisisrhenickbame · Dec 2023
The contents are perfect but the audio recording is terrible. Also, it would be so much better if you guys could provide a transcript on Stanford psychology web.
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