16 - Erin Westgate: Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Sit Alone with Their Thoughts

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 featured in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and the BBC. Erin has famously found that people would rather shock themselves than sit alone with their thoughts for a few minutes! In this episode, Erin discusses the question we all have in mind when we hear about this finding: Why? More prec...

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178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions

178 - Julia Nolte: Why We Avoid Difficult Decisions

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Julia Nolte, Assistant Professor of Economic Psychology at Tilburg University. Julia’s research examines how information management, risk perception, and decision-making...

26 Juni 1h 1min

177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)

177 - Alison Gopnik: How Can Understanding Childhood Help Us Build Better AI? (REAIR)

In this re-air (but more timely than ever!) episode from 2021, Anjie chats with Alison Gopnik, Professor at the Department of Psychology and Affiliate Professor at Department of Philosophy at UC Berke...

12 Juni 40min

176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

176 - Elizabeth Bonawitz: How to Have Fun While Studying How Children Learn so Much From so Little

Adani chats with Elizabeth Bonawitz, Professor of Learning Sciences at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth’s work focuses on basic theories of learning with the broader goal of informing e...

30 Maj 46min

175 - Nicholas Epley: A Little More Social

175 - Nicholas Epley: A Little More Social

Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people t...

14 Maj 56min

174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

174 - Amit Goldenberg: Collective Emotions and Social Media (REAIR)

In this reair episode from 2023, Eric chats with Amit Goldenberg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Amit studies emotions in social interactions, for example i...

17 Apr 48min

173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

173 - Juliana Schroeder: Mistakenly Seeking Solitude (REAIR)

In this reair episode, Eric chats with Juliana Schroeder, Associate Professor in the Management of Organizations at Berkeley Haas. She studies how people think about the minds of other people, and how...

3 Apr 46min

172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

172 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond (REAIR)

Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for building a new research program, “F...

20 Mars 37min

171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

171 - Casey Kenyon Brown: Can Your Relationships Make You Depressed? (REAIR)

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She has received numerous honor...

6 Mars 39min

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