Kristen Soltis Anderson is a pollster and co-founder of Echelon Insights. For five years, she co-hosted the podcast, The Pollsters, […]
Ep 22: Political Persuasion with Alex Coppock
Dr. Alex Coppock is an assistant professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research considers what affects people’s political […]
Ep 21: More Influence Than You Realize with Vanessa Bohns
Vanessa Bohns studies the difference between how much influence people have and how influence they think they have. On the […]
BONUS: Good Accidents with Elliot Aronson
Elliot Aronson has seen a long and influential career in social psychology. Aronson got his PhD in 1959 from Stanford […]
BONUS: Dissonance and the New Look with Joel Cooper
Last week’s special episode on cognitive dissonance pulled together interviews with several people who are experts in the field. Joel […]
Ep. 20: The Cognitive Dissonance Episode
In 1957, Leon Festinger published A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Along with a collection of compelling experiments, Festinger changed the […]
Ep 19: Political Humor as Persuasion with Danna Young
Dr. Dannagal Young studies political humor. She pulls together psychology, communications, and political science, to understand how political satire works […]
Ep 18: Health Communication with Allison Earl
Allison Earl studies the challenges of getting health information to people who need it. Her research looks at how people […]
Ep 17: How We Think About Animals with Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont studies the psychology behind humans’ complicated feelings about animals. In particular, his research looks at how the existence […]
Ep 16: Implicit Bias with Mahzarin Banaji
Mahzarin Banaji is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. In the 90s, she and her colleagues pioneered the research in […]