The Loneliness Epidemic: Why Are We Avoiding Social Interactions? | Nick Epley
Why do we avoid the very thing that could bring us more joy—connecting with others? In this episode, behavioral scientist and human interaction expert…
Linda Thunstrom: Are Thoughts and Prayers Empty Gestures to Suffering Disaster Victims?
Linda Thunstrom, PhD is a Swedish economist working as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Wyoming. (That’s in Laramie, Wyoming, not…
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: Wendy Wood, PhD on Habits, Productivity and Being Gentle with Yourself
Wendy Wood, PhD is a social psychologist whose research addresses the ways that habits guide behavior. She researches and teaches at USC both in…
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…
Alex Imas: Clawback Incentives and Tom Waits
Alex Imas is an assistant professor of economics in the Social & Decision Sciences department at Carnegie Mellon’s Dietrich College. His research dovetails perfectly…
Julie Downs: From Sexual Health to the Sahel
Julie Downs, PhD is an associate professor of psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences department at Carnegie Mellon’s Dietrich College and fits perfectly…
Silvia Saccardo: Ethics of Decisions and Italian Rap
Silvia Saccardo, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Social and Decision Sciences department in the Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences…