Ranked #1

#17: Sander van der Linden on Intrinsic Motivation
#17: Sander van der Linden on Intrinsic Motivation
If you haven't recently, go look up a picture of actor Paul Rudd. Now, Ben Affleck. My guest for the show this week look... Read more
3 Mar 2020
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #2

#11: Nicholas Epley on Designing a Good Life
#11: Nicholas Epley on Designing a Good Life
Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Busin... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #3

#13: David Pizarro on How to Find Collaborators
#13: David Pizarro on How to Find Collaborators
David Pizarro is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Cornell. He is also chief science officer at ... Read more
28 Jan 2020
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #4

#16: Heather Berlin on Bringing Science to the Masses
#16: Heather Berlin on Bringing Science to the Masses
Dr Heather Berlin is one of the purest science communicators I've ever come across. Pure in the sense that she is, above... Read more
25 Feb 2020
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58mins
Ranked #5

#15: Nicola Clayton on Enthusiastic Serendipity
#15: Nicola Clayton on Enthusiastic Serendipity
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a bird? Not just to fly, but to really, truly understand the world from a bi... Read more
18 Feb 2020
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #6

Newsletter Excerpt: "On Forcing the Issue"
Newsletter Excerpt: "On Forcing the Issue"
If you listened to Cognitive Revolution before, you've probably heard me talk my Friendship Friday newsletter. I've play... Read more
5 Mar 2020
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6mins
Ranked #7

#18: Michael Tomasello on Writing for Young People
#18: Michael Tomasello on Writing for Young People
Michael Tomasello is one of the most influential cognitive scientists of the twenty-first century. And yet I would still... Read more
10 Mar 2020
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52mins
Ranked #8

#14: Weiji Ma on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
#14: Weiji Ma on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
Weiji Ma is an associate professor of neural science and psychology at NYU. He is the co-founder of the Growing Up in Sc... Read more
4 Feb 2020
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #9

BONUS: When Should a Conversation End?
BONUS: When Should a Conversation End?
This episode is something of a new experiment I'm trying. I read three previous pieces I've written on various topics ar... Read more
11 Feb 2020
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21mins
Ranked #10

#12: Dorsa Amir on Ultimate versus Proximate Goals
#12: Dorsa Amir on Ultimate versus Proximate Goals
Dorsa Amir is a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College. She took her PhD in anthropology from Yale, and has a popular Te... Read more
21 Jan 2020
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #11

#25: Michèle Lamont on Building Big Ideas
#25: Michèle Lamont on Building Big Ideas
This week's guest is someone very special. Michèle Lamont has had a huge impact on my own thinking as a psychologist. Sh... Read more
12 May 2020
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42mins
Ranked #12

#24: Michael Inzlicht on the Optimal Number of Beers per Psychologist
#24: Michael Inzlicht on the Optimal Number of Beers per Psychologist
Mickey Inzlicht wanted to be a dentist when he grew up. But unfortunately he only made it as far as Professor in the Dep... Read more
5 May 2020
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #13

#23: Brad Love on Lifelong Exploration
#23: Brad Love on Lifelong Exploration
Little known fact about Brad Love: he holds the world record for the youngest sounding voice for any fully grown adult m... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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53mins
Ranked #14

#22: Rob Henderson on the Search for Stability
#22: Rob Henderson on the Search for Stability
Rob is a Gates scholar at Cambridge, doing his PhD in Psychology. He's written for such venerable outlets as the New Yor... Read more
21 Apr 2020
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47mins
Ranked #15

#21: Olga Khazan on the Power of Outsiders
#21: Olga Khazan on the Power of Outsiders
Olga's family moved to America when she was four years old. They were a Jewish family from Russia. Growing up in small t... Read more
7 Apr 2020
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51mins
Ranked #16

Lab Lockdown #3: Steve Rathje
Lab Lockdown #3: Steve Rathje
Steve is a PhD student in social psychology at Cambridge. He recently published an article on Psychology Today about the... Read more
3 Apr 2020
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37mins
Ranked #17

#20: Julia Shaw on Who We Are and Why It Matters
#20: Julia Shaw on Who We Are and Why It Matters
This is probably the most interesting interview I've done on Cognitive Revolution to date (sorry, Paul Bloom). To call D... Read more
1 Apr 2020
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #18

The Christof Koch Consciousness Reading List
The Christof Koch Consciousness Reading List
As a new part of Cognitive Revolution, I'm gathering reading lists from as many of my guests as I can going forward. I'm... Read more
30 Mar 2020
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10mins
Ranked #19

Lab Lockdown #2: Jeffrey Lees
Lab Lockdown #2: Jeffrey Lees
Jeff is a PhD at Harvard Business School. He's been working from home for years. And now that the rest of us are in the ... Read more
20 Mar 2020
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34mins
Ranked #20

Lab Lockdown #1: Jaclyn A. Siegel
Lab Lockdown #1: Jaclyn A. Siegel
In this crazy times characterized by the chaos of a worldwide pandemic, I've decided to do something a little different ... Read more
19 Mar 2020
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51mins