Adapt, Recover, Grow: Mastering Resilience | Dr. Jonathan DePierro
What is resilience, and how can we cultivate it in our lives? In this episode, delve into the fascinating world of resilience with an…
Our Love Of Music And The Influence Of The Pandemic With Mark Thorley
Where and how we listened to music shifted during the pandemic. But the music industry itself had to quickly adapt in 2020 to how…
Feeling Fearful: Why People Seek Out Conspiracy Theories | Eric Oliver
What makes us more likely to believe in conspiracy theories? Can our religious beliefs or political affiliations determine whether we’re less likely to believe…
Leading Human™: How to Avoid Burnout and Create a Positive Organization
Employee burnout, The Great Resignation, Office Covid Regulations; these are all major concerns for leaders in the workplace right now. But how can managers…
Vaccinating the World: How Behavioral Science Helps. With Michael Coleman
How can behavioral science aid the mammoth task of vaccination the world against Covid? What common barriers cause vaccine hesitancy in populations around the…
Why Music Makes You Feel Better with Pablo Ripollés and Ernest Mas Herrero
In this episode we are thrilled to be discussing our two favorite topics: human behavior and music. We learn that music, more than any…
Reflecting on the Best Podcast Insights from 2020
This is THE episode to listen to if you have missed the last 90 episodes. We can all agree that 2020 has been one…
The 10 Best Behavioral Science Books for 2020
Pretty much everyone around the world agrees that 2020 was a challenging year and we’re glad it’s all but over. However, 2020 was a…
How to Deal With Anxiety Over COVID Vaccines
Are the new COVID-19 vaccines are safe? It will probably take time to know for sure; however, this week Kurt and Tim discuss the…
Grooving: The Single Largest Driver of Misinformation
[NOTE: This episode was originally published under our sister-podcast, Weekly Grooves. In our effort to share relevant behavioral science information, we are republishing it…
Secrets to a Successful Marriage with Eli Finkel
Eli Finkel, PhD is a social psychology professor who studies interpersonal attraction, marriage, and how our social relationships influence our goal achievement. He is…
Grooving: Colleges and the Coronavirus
[NOTE: You may or may not know that Kurt and Tim host a sibling podcast called Weekly Grooves. We thought this was such an…
Shlomi Ron: Visual Storying Telling In a Time of Crisis
Shlomi Ron is the CEO of the Visual Storytelling Institute. He co-founded the institute after 20 years of digital marketing with some of the…
Covid-19 Crisis: Caroline Webb, Senior Advisor at McKinsey, on The Value of Where We Place Our Attention and Amplifying Certainty
Caroline Webb, a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, is an executive coach, author, and speaker specializing in insights from behavioral science to improve our lives…
Covid-19 Crisis: Margaret Robinson Rutherford, PhD on Perfectly Hidden Depression
Margaret Robinson Rutherford, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice with more than twenty-five years of experience treating individuals and couples for depression,…
Covid-19 Crisis: Elizabeth Gilbert, PhD on Adaptability, Imaginal Exposure and Lists
Elizabeth Gilbert, PhD is the Head of Research at PsychologyCompass, a content platform that uses insights from psychology and neuroscience to teach people how…
Covid-19 Crisis: Howard Friedman, PhD on The Value of Human Life
Howard Friedman is a data scientist, health economist, and writer with decades of experience in both the private and public sectors, as well as…
Covid-19 Crisis: Chris Pfeiffer on Tips for Adjusting Sales Comp Plans
Chris Pfeiffer is a Senior Business Analyst at Tegra Analytics. Chris specializes in salesforce effectiveness in the life science industry, which includes incentive compensation,…
Covid-19 Crisis: Kristen Berman on Remote Work, Quaranteams and Marinades
Kristen Berman is the co-founder of Irrational Labs and co-founder and principal at Common Cents Lab, a non-profit behavioral consulting company, with Dan Ariely….
Covid-19 Crisis: Mariel Beasley on Increasing Short Term Savings During the Crisis
Mariel Beasley is the Co-Director of the Common Cents Lab at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University. She works on applications of…
Covid-19 Crisis: Kaveh Yazdifard on Uniting Innovators from Tehran
Kaveh Yazdifard is the Chief Innovation Officer at Sahab Pardaz located in Tehran, Iran. He is also the Director of Urban Innovation for the…
Covid-19 Crisis: Gretchen Chapman, PhD on The Psychology of Vaccinations
Gretchen Chapman, PhD researches how we make decisions about vaccines. She is a Professor in the Social & Decision Sciences department at Carnegie Mellon…
Covid-19 Crisis: Jules Nolan on The Kids are Alright – Insights on Coping Through the Crisis
Jules Nolan, PhD is a psychologist, speaker, and author. She is the president of the Minnesota School Psychology Association and chairwoman for the Human…
Thanks For No Memories During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Our inspiration this week comes from an article written by Shayla Love for Vice titled, “You’ll probably forget what it was like to live…
Covid-19 Crisis: Greg Davies, PhD on the Fetish of Optimization
Greg Davies, PhD is a specialist in applied behavioral finance, decision science, impact investing, and financial wellbeing. He founded the banking world’s first behavioral…
Covid-19 Crisis: Anurag Vaish on Risk is a Feeling, Not a Number
Anurag Vaish is the co-founder and director of The FinalMile in Mumbai, India. In building the company’s practice of Behavior Architecture, Anurag led the…
Artem Petakov: Our Biggest Competitor is the Couch
Artem Petakov is a co-Founder of Noom, a behavioral change and weight loss product that marries both psychology and AI to help people form…
Covid-19 Crisis: Michael Boden on How Field Sales Reps Are Adapting to the Crisis
Michael Boden is the Head of U.S. Crop Protection Sales at Syngenta, a global agrochemicals and seeds firm based in Basel, Switzerland. He joined…
Covid-19 Crisis: Alessandro del Ponte on Moral Dilemmas with Economic Consequences
Alessandro del Ponte is a research fellow at the National University of Singapore working in the Behavioral Change program at the Global Asia Institute….
Covid-19 Crisis: Cristina Bicchieri – Messaging Rules For Improving Social Behavior
Cristina Bicchieri, PhD is the S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, a Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University…
Covid-19 Crisis: Brad Shuck, PhD on Pausing, Building Capacity and “Not Business as Usual”
Brad Shuck, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville. He is…
Covid-19 Crisis: Eugen Dimant, PhD on the Roles of Social Norms and Good Science
Eugen Dimant, PhD is an Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences, which is part of the new Center for Social Norms…
Deborah Small, PhD: Processing Probabilistic Events and Making Donations
Deborah Small, PhD is a professor of marketing in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research crosses the intersections of psychology…
Covid-19 Crisis: Rodd Wagner on The Zen of Staying Safe
Rodd Wagner is a Forbes columnist and bestselling author of books on leadership, employee engagement and collaboration. Rodd’s books have been published in 10…
Covid-19 Crisis: Ali Fenwick, PhD on Leveraging the Crisis for Good
Ali Fenwick, PhD is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Hult International Business School in London and Dubai. He specializes in applying behavioural traits…
Covid-19 Crisis: James Brewer on Changing His Mind
James Brewer is the Director of Marketing Platforms and Global Customer Operations for Eli Lilly and Company. Over the years, Kurt and Tim have…
Covid-19 Crisis: Don’t Outsource Your Critical Thinking with Christian Hunt
Christian Hunt is the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioral Science consulting and training firm specializing in risk, compliance, conduct & culture. Previously, Christian…
Covid-19 Crisis: Barry Ritholtz on Keeping Perspective
Barry Ritholtz is the CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and the host of the Bloomberg podcast Masters in Business, where he talks almost as…
Covid-19 Crisis: Emotional Impact of WFH with Liz Fosslien
Liz Fosslien was our guest on Episode 56 and we asked her back to kick off our series on the behavioral aspects of how…
Managing Coronavirus – An Introduction to Weekly Grooves
This is an episode originally produced for Weekly Grooves. We hope you enjoy! Coronavirus and the disease it’s created – Covid-19 – is alive…