People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

This is a podcast about deciphering human behavior and understanding why people do the things they d

Episodes

Total: 176

A talk with psychology researcher Matthew Hornsey about political polarization and the psychology be

A rebroadcast of one of my most popular episodes: a talk from 2018 with Mark McClish, who's an exper

As part of an effort to share some of the best and most popular early episodes of my podcast, this i

A talk with Bill Ottman, co-founder and CEO of the social media platform Minds, which is known for i

A talk with political scientist Leonie Huddy on the topic of research on American racism and prejudi

A talk with psychology and addiction behavior researcher Paul Delfabbro about cryptocurrency, proble

An examination of the reasons why people believe the 2020 election was "rigged," stolen, or otherwis

A talk with Dino Levy about his research team's research, which used monitoring of facial muscles an

A talk with political scientist Thomas Zeitzoff, who has studied political conflicts. We talk about

Brandon Sheils is a professional poker player who recently did a scientific study of poker tells as

Abe Rutchick talks about his psychology research that showed that killing is easier at a distance, h

John Wood Jr. is a leader and ambassador of the depolarization group Braver Angels. He ran for Congr

A talk with Kirk Schneider, an existential-humanistic psychologist and therapist, and the author of

A talk with Liz Stokoe, a conversation analysis (CA) researcher and the author of "Talk: The Science

A talk with political scientist Thomas Pepinsky, who has studied, amongst other things, beliefs that

This is a piece that I, Zach Elwood, wrote about the ways in which social media (and internet commun

A talk with roboticist and artificial intelligence researcher Hod Lipson. Topics include: how close

A talk with criminologist Eric Piza about how video has affected crime rates. Topics discussed inclu

Host Zachary Elwood examines liberal reactions about the Rittenhouse verdict and how some of the mor

A talk with social scientist Saul Albert (saulalbert.net) about conversation analysis — the scientif