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Stanford Psychology Podcast

Stanford Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Child Development
Curiosity
Mental Health
Authenticity
Psychology
Social Cognition
Decision-Making
Anxiety
Emotions
Aging
Cultural Psychology
Uncertainty
Inside Out 2
Developmental Psychology
Imagination
Personality Traits
Adolescent Development

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 ... more

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This week, Katia Kriakova has a conversation with Brian Knutson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University. In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of decision-making, how brain activity can predict behavior and relapse i... more

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 make good decisions in everyday life to ethical theory and the history of ethics (e... more

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 development across the lifespan and has pioneered the scientific study of purpose in life. In t... more

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 co-author of Designing Your Life and How to Live a Meaningful Life.  In this conversat... more

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Recent Guests

Brian Knutson
Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University
Stanford University
Episode: 185 - Brian Knutson: What Neuroscience Reveals About Our Decisions
Tamar Schapiro
Professor of Philosophy, MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: 184 - Tamar Schapiro: What Philosophy Can(not) Tell us About Children, Adults, and the Root of All Evil
William Damon
Professor of Education at Stanford University, pioneering researcher on purpose in life
Stanford University
Episode: 183 - William Damon: How to Live a Purposeful Life
Bill Burnett
Co-founder of Stanford's Life Design Lab; co-author of Designing Your Life and How to Live a Meaningful Life
Stanford University / Life Design Lab
Episode: 182 - Bill Burnett: How to Design a Meaningful Life
Nomisha Kurian
Professor, researcher, consultant on child development and AI safety
Educational psychology and child development research
Episode: 181 - Nomisha Kurian: Critical Hope for the Future of Children & AI
Andrew Lampinen
Dr. Lampinen, research scientist at Anthropic; former staff research scientist at Google DeepMind
Anthropic
Episode: 180 - Andrew Lampinen: Translating Cognitive Psychology to AI
Julia Nolte
Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at Tilburg University
Tilburg University
Episode: 178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions
Alison Gopnik
Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Episode: 177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)
Elizabeth Bonawitz
Professor of learning sciences
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Episode: 176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

Hosts

Enna
Multiple episodes host with collaboration across the Stanford Psychology Podcast; broad involvement in guest discussions.
Anjie Cao
Co-host on multiple episodes, collaborator with a focus on guest interactions.
Adani
Frequent host contributing to guest conversations across episodes.
Eric Neumann
Long-running host with multiple episode appearances.

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 567 ratings
  • Fix the production quality!

    Interesting topics but the audio quality from the hosts is terrible. I often can’t understand what they asked the guests.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    Traveler42444
    United States5 months ago
  • Audio very bad, otherwise fantastic

    The audio is worse on the side of the hosts than of the guests. Hurts my ears.

    Otherwise super interesting and really great how different hosts engage the guests.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Is egal jejejrfjfj
    Germanya year ago
  • The Dissonance I Didn’t Know I Had

    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!!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Kari Rio
    United States2 years ago
  • Get a better mic!

    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.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    #HateTheUpdate
    United States2 years ago
  • 119 Bryan Brown

    “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.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    thisisrhenickbame
    United States3 years ago

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182 - Bill Burnett: How to Design a Meaningful Life
Q: How did you get to where you are, and did you always know that you wanted to get here?
Burnett describes a winding path—from growing up in Boston, joining Stanford's unique design-psychology program, to co-founding the Life Design Lab and co-writing Designing Your Life. He emphasizes prototyping, teaching by doing, and building programs that scale across universities, aided by collaboration with peers and by embracing uncertainty as a design problem to be solved.
181 - Nomisha Kurian: Critical Hope for the Future of Children & AI
Q: How should policymakers balance safety with innovation when it comes to children and AI?
Adopt a holistic, child-centered approach that goes beyond content moderation to consider the whole child's creativity, emotions, and relationships; implement policies that foster responsible design and longitudinal research while not overly restricting access to beneficial technologies.
181 - Nomisha Kurian: Critical Hope for the Future of Children & AI
Q: What is your sense of how common AI toys are becoming in households right now?
AI toys are likely a big part of the early childhood landscape, with ongoing pushes to embed interactive AI into children's products; the field is moving toward proactive, child-centered design rather than reactive safety measures.
176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little
Q: Why study children to understand learning and intelligence?
Children offer a window into the core learning problem—how we acquire rich knowledge from very little data—and studying their intuitions reveals the foundational mechanisms that we later refine and expand into adulthood.
174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)
Q: What are collective emotions and how are they different from individual emotions?
Amit explains that collective emotions arise from multiple emotional interactions within a group, creating macro-level phenomena that have attributes not reducible to any single individual's experience. They involve networked interactions and emergent properties that reflect the structure and dynamics of the group.

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The show centers on conversations with leading psychologists and interdisciplinary researchers about how psychological science translates to everyday life. Episodes frequently explore topics like aging and decision-making, how children learn and how play shapes education, social cognition and misperceptions, collective emotions in online environments, and practical strategies for improving learning, curiosity, and well-being. A notable strength is the breadth of guest expertise—from developmental psychology and education to AI-influenced learning and social dynamics—paired with thoughtful, accessible inquiries that connect theory to real-world implications. Production quality is a common talking point among listeners, but the engaging host–... more

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2. Tamar Schapiro
3. William Damon
4. Bill Burnett
5. Nomisha Kurian
6. Andrew Lampinen
7. Julia Nolte
8. Alison Gopnik

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