# bites podcast (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bites podcast. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ariel Kalil on Parents' Role in Child Development](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/ariel-kalil-on-parents-role-in-child-development) _2026-08-03 · Social Science Bites_ When discussing youngsters' life outcomes, school is often the first place someone starts investigating. And yet school time is dwarfed by the amount of time kids spend with their parents or other adult caregivers. Recognizing this, developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil, the Daniel Levin Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy , focuses her child development research… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Ariel_Kalil_on_parents_and_child_development.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Mahzarin Banaji on Social Cognition](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/mahzarin-banajion-social-cognition) _2026-07-01 · Social Science Bites_ One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it will mimic, and perhaps even improve, on human thinking. One of those hoped-for improvements was that AI would not exhibit human biases. Turns out that in one area, AI can indeed mimic human thinking, and it's in that field of bias. As Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji -- one of the creators of the widely used implicit bias test --… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Mahzarin_Banarji_on_Social_Cognition.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/daniel-yon-on-the-brain-as-scientist) _2026-06-01 · Social Science Bites_ The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice day or determining the meaning of chit-chat with a friend. Ferreting out the basis and structures of our brain's labor is the domain of Daniel Yon , a psychologist and neuroscientists and director of the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. In this Social Science… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Daniel_Yon_on_the_Brain_as_Scientist.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/tom-gilovich-on-the-spotlight-effect) _2026-05-04 · Social Science Bites_ Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by the world around them. And why not, he explains to interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. "We're dynamic, very complicated creatures who do all sorts of things and sometimes make you go, 'Huh?' That's interesting." He adds, "At the same time, some of… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Tom_Gilovich_On_the_Spotlight_Effect.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/ellora-derenoncourt-on-the-us-racial-wealth-gap) _2026-04-01 · Social Science Bites_ This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since the end of American Civil War the economic condition of Back Americans has improved, using as a comparison the presumed status quo population of white Americans. According to Princeton University economist Ellora Derenoncourt , this "wealth gap" has fallen from 60-to-one to… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Ellora_Derenoncourt_on_the_US_Racial_Wealth_Gap.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/steven-pinker-on-common-knowledge) _2026-03-02 · Social Science Bites_ There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it's so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains in this Social Science Bites podcast, common knowledge underlies things like paper money, governance, and even coral reefs. And common knowledge, he makes clear to host David Edmonds, "does not have its ordinary sense of conventional wisdom or… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Steven_Pinker_on_Common_Knowledge.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/mukulika-banerjee-on-indian-democracy) _2026-02-02 · Social Science Bites_ A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in the India of that moment -- elections were sacred. This was not a religious epiphany but a cultural one; at the center was not a figure, religious or political, but an ideal - democracy. Banerjee has explored her insights in the years since in a variety or… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Mukulika_Banerjee_on_Indian_Democracy.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Paul Bloom on Empathy](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/paul-bloom-on-empathy) _2026-01-06 · Social Science Bites_ In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles with). In the book, as in his career and in this Social Science Bites podcast, Bloom deconstructs what is popularly meant by empathy. "Everybody seems to have their own notion," he tells interviewer David Edmonds, "and that's totally fine, but we end up talking… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Paul_Bloom_on_Empathy.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [Devyani Sharma on Accents](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/devyani-sharma-on-accents) _2025-12-01 · Social Science Bites_ What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what do others hear in your accent? These are the sorts of questions that Devyani Sharma , a professor of language and communication at Oxford's Worcester College, asks every day, especially about the many English speakers around the world. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Sharma takes a… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Devyani_Sharma_on_Accents.mp3?dest-id=92665) ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oYXFXkVZD6eh) _2025-12-01 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Frank Keil on Causal Thinking](https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/frank-keil-on-causal-thinking) _2025-11-03 · Social Science Bites_ As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank Keil, who studies causal thinking, that answer is likely along the lines of 'not enough.' A lack of causal thinking is both endemic, and, to an extent, hurtful these days, he argues, suggesting that lacking even simplified causal models makes things like the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/socialsciencebites/Frank_Kiel_on_Causal_Thinking.mp3?dest-id=92665)