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16 - Erin Westgate: Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Sit Alone with Their Thoughts
Oct 14, 2021Eric chats with Erin Westgate, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. The work from Erin’s lab has focused on topics such as thinking for pleasure and boredom and has been fea...
15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
Oct 07, 2021Eric chats with Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. Robert is a world-renowned academic and author of highly successful books such as A Primate’s Memoir, Why Z...
14 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI?
Oct 01, 2021In this episode, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Department of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Alison is not only a great cognitive scie...
13 - Wade Davis: A More Tolerant And Compassionate Mindset For Everyday Life
Sep 23, 2021Eric chats with Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology at UBC. Wade has a fantastically diverse background: Next to being a prolific academic with 22 published books, he was also a long-time Explorer-I...
12 - Tobias Gerstenberg: Whose Fault Is It? Causal Judgments in Everyday Life
Sep 16, 2021Eric chats with Tobias Gerstenberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford where he runs the Causality in Cognition Lab. His lab focuses on the cognitive processes involved in causal judgments:...
11 - Special Episode: The Past, Present and Future of the Paths to Ph.D. Event
Sep 08, 2021For this week’s episode, we planned something special. Each year, the Stanford psychology department hosts Paths to Ph.D., a free, open-to-public information session on how to apply to Ph.D. programs ...
10 - Hyowon Gweon: What Makes Us So Good at Learning from Each Other?
Aug 28, 2021In this episode, Anjie chats with Hyo Gweon, an associate professor at Stanford Psychology Department. Hyo directs Social Learning Lab, where the research focus is our abilities to learn from others a...
09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion
Aug 26, 2021Eric chats with Alan Fiske, Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Alan is the author of multiple books, including Structures of Social Life and Virtuous Violence. Alan discusses why...
08 - Judith Fan: The Wonders of Playing With Blocks
Aug 14, 2021In this episode, Anjie chats with Judy Fan, Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Judy’s research is at the intersection of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and...
07 - Ovul Sezer: The Case for Sharing Good News
Aug 12, 2021Eric chats with Ovul Sezer, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at UNC Kenan-Flagler. Ovul’s research focuses on impression mismanagement, or the mistakes we make as we try to impress other...