psychology

#1230 William von Hippel: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness

Mar 20, 2026

Dr. William von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published more than a hundred articles, chapters, and edited books in social psychology, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, the BBC, Le Monde, El Mundo, Der Spiegel, and The Australian. He is the author of The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness. More»
#1229 Nandita Bajaj, Zachary Neal, and Jennifer Neal: Debunking Pronatalist Claims

Mar 19, 2026

Nandita Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University. More»
#1227 Steven Sloman - The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray

Mar 13, 2026

Dr. Steven Sloman is Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He studies how people think: how we reason, make decisions, and form attitudes and beliefs. Most of the work in his lab involves experiments asking adults to think about events and report their conclusions and preferences. His perspective has been shaped by observing how people respond to political events, by philosophy, and by computational models of how people process information. He is the author of The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray. More»
#1219 Sami Timimi: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity

Feb 23, 2026

Dr. Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. He is also an experienced Psychotherapist. He is also an author who writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and he has published over a hundred and fifty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, psychotherapy, behavioral disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored 7 books including Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity. More»
#1217 Hanna Schleihauf: Other People's Beliefs, Belief Revision, and Good Reasoning

Feb 19, 2026

Dr. Hanna Schleihauf is Assistant Professor in the Department for Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University. She studies the roots of human diversity: although each of us shares 99.99% of our genes with every other human on the planet, there is massive variation in our socio-cultural practices driven by our ability to learn from and interact with others. Her research investigates socio-cognitive underpinnings of cultural learning, focusing on how cultural novices, children during early and middle childhood, grow into proficient cultural beings. More»
#1214 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Love and Connection

Feb 12, 2026

Dr. Paul Eastwick is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Eastwick’s research investigates how people initiate romantic relationships and the psychological mechanisms that help romantic partners to remain committed and attached. One of his research programs examines how the qualities that people say are critically important to them in a romantic partner—their ideal partner preferences—direct romantic partner selection and retention. He is the author of Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection. More»
#1207 Alberto Acerbi: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears

Jan 26, 2026

Dr. Alberto Acerbi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. He is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist with a particular interest in computational science. He is the author of “Tecnopanico. Media digitali, tra ragionevoli cautele e paure ingiustificate” (“Technopanic: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears”). More»
#1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism

Jan 16, 2026

Nicole Karlis is a health and science journalist. Her work has been published in Salon, The New York Times, Marie Claire, and The Bold Italic. She is the author of Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis. More»
#1199 Jason Clarke - Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception

Jan 8, 2026

Dr. Jason Clarke is Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London. He is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on revealing the psychological and neural processes underlying visual perception, memory, and consciousness. He is the author of Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception. More»
#1188 Ashley Randall: Sexual Minority and Gender-Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships

Dec 12, 2025

Dr. Ashley Randall is a Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. She studies couples’ interpersonal emotion regulation. Although stressful experiences can have deleterious effects on individual well-being in a variety relationships and settings, romantic partners are in a unique position to regulate each other’s emotions during times of distress. More»