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Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.
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Healing Your Heart
Episode Date: April 4, 2022We’ve all heard about the five stages of grief. But what happens when your experience doesn’t follow that model at all? Resilience researcher Lucy Hon...
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You Don't Need a Crystal Ball
Episode Date: March 28, 2022When disaster strikes — from the explosion of a space shuttle to the spread of a deadly virus — we want to know whether we could have avoided catastro...
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You Can't Hit Unsend
Episode Date: March 18, 2022Social media sites offer quick and easy ways to share ideas, crack jokes, find old friends. They can make us feel part of something big and wonderful...
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The Benefits of Mixed Emotions
Episode Date: March 14, 2022We've all been in situations where we experience mixed emotions. Maybe you've felt both joy and sadness during a big life decision, such as whether to...
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Putting Our Assumptions to the Test
Episode Date: March 8, 2022Do you ever stop to wonder if the way you see the world is how the world really is? Economist Abhijit Banerjee has spent a lifetime asking himself th...
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Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong
Episode Date: March 1, 2022Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? In the final episode of our "...
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Mind Reading 2.0: Our Better Angels
Episode Date: February 22, 2022Turn on the news, and you'll be bombarded with stories of people who lie, cheat, and kill. Most of our public and economic policies take aim at these...
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Mind Reading 2.0: The Double Standard
Episode Date: February 15, 2022It’s easy to spot bias in other people, especially those with whom we disagree. But it’s not so easy to recognize our own biases. In the latest in o...
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Mind Reading 2.0: How others see you
Episode Date: February 8, 2022It's not easy to know how we come across to others, especially when we're meeting people for the first time. Psychologist Erica Boothby says many of u...
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Mind Reading 2.0: Why did you do that?
Episode Date: February 1, 2022As we go through life, we’re constantly trying to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. Psychologist Liane Young says this ability to...
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My Unsung Hero: Sanaa Kerroumi's Story
Episode Date: January 29, 2022Sanaa is on her train ride home when an angry man begins threatening her. Before he gets too close, a stranger intervenes. Please share the story of y...
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Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy
Episode Date: January 25, 2022Life is often filled with hardships and tragedies. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with such hardshi...
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What Makes Relationships Thrive
Episode Date: January 18, 2022Everyone wants to be loved and appreciated. But psychologist Harry Reis says there’s another ingredient to successful relationships that’s every bit a...
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My Unsung Hero: Wendy McDowell's Story
Episode Date: January 15, 2022It's 1979, and Wendy is eight years old, crying alone in an airport. Then she sees a woman in white walking towards her.In a few weeks we'll be runnin...
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Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs
Episode Date: January 11, 2022The rift between police and Black Americans can feel impossible to bridge. But in his work with police departments across the U.S., Yale psychologist...
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Choose Carefully
Episode Date: January 4, 2022All of us make choices all the time, and we may think we're making those choices freely. But psychologist Eric Johnson says there's an architecture be...
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Creatures of Habit
Episode Date: December 28, 2021At the beginning of the year, many of us make resolutions for the months to come. We resolve to work out more, to procrastinate less, or to save more...
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My Unsung Hero: Justin Horner's Story
Episode Date: December 24, 2021Justin is sitting on the side of the freeway, hoping someone will help him fix his busted wheel. Right around the time he’s about to give up, a van p...
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Bringing Up Baby
Episode Date: December 21, 2021Bababa, dadada, ahgaga. Got that? Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To us non-babies, it all so...