19 - Michal Strahilevitz: Teaching Happiness
In this episode, Anjie chats with Dr. Michal Strahilevitz. Michal is currently a marketing professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research focuses on how emotions affect decision-making ...
4 Nov 202150min
18 - Abigail Marsh: Surprising Predictors of Everyday Kindness
Eric chats with Abigail Marsh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgetown. Her work has focused on phenomena as diverse as empathy, altruism, aggression, and psychopathy. In 2017, Abby pu...
28 Okt 202146min
17 - Scott Barry Kaufman: The Light Triad - A Psychology of Everyday Saints
Eric chats with Scott Barry Kaufman, cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist renowned for a series of groundbreaking books such as Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Wired to Create, and, most ...
21 Okt 202143min
16 - Erin Westgate: Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Sit Alone with Their Thoughts
Eric 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...
14 Okt 202142min
15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
Eric 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...
7 Okt 202150min
14 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI?
In 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...
1 Okt 202140min
13 - Wade Davis: A More Tolerant And Compassionate Mindset For Everyday Life
Eric 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...
23 Sep 202149min
12 - Tobias Gerstenberg: Whose Fault Is It? Causal Judgments in Everyday Life
Eric 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:...
16 Sep 202145min
