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Welcome to the blog for the Social Science Bites podcast: a series of interviews with leading Social Scientists. Each episode explores an aspect of our social world. You can access all audio and the transcripts from each interview here. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @socialscibites to keep up to date on the latest activities.

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Ioanna Palaiologou on Play

By Social Science Bites | Published: September 1, 2017

In the Social Science Bites podcast, Ioanna Palaiologou and Dave Edmonds also talk about cultural differences in play and how it is a vital part of children’s emotional development. All work and no play, it...

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Al Roth on Matching Markets

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 1, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Nobel laureate economist Al Roth explains to interview David Edmonds some of the ins and outs of market matching, giving a wealth of real-world examples.

Posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Al Roth, Game Theory, Kidney Transplants, Matching Markets, Nobel Prize | Leave a comment

Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments

By Social Science Bites | Published: July 7, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, the director of Studies for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge’s Christ’s College discusses how environment – and that includes the cultural, built and financial environments --buttresses short term...

Posted in Public Policy, Social Science Bites | Tagged Health, Theresa Marteau | Leave a comment

Mary Bosworth on Border Criminology

By Social Science Bites | Published: June 1, 2017

Border criminology, Mary Bosworth details in this Social Science Bites podcast, is trying to understand both things that are happening at the border but also things that are happening in our criminal justice system.

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 16, 2017

Ask a number of influential social scientists who in turn influenced them, and you’d likely get a blue-ribbon primer on the classics in social science. And so it as we present the third and final...

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Chris Grey on Organizations

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2017

What is an “organization?” According to Chris Grey, the guest in this Social Science Bites podcast, in many ways it’s a moment in time. “An organization,” he tells interviewer David Edmonds, “is also a momentary...

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Scott Atran on Sacred Values

By Social Science Bites | Published: April 3, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, anthropologist Scott Atran describes how 'sacred values' prove remarkably immune to negotiation and can empower vicious terrorism or victorious revolution.

Posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Anthropology, ISIS, Scott Atran, Terrorism | Leave a comment

Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 2

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 15, 2017

During the recording of every Social Science Bites podcast, the guest has been asked the following: Which piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you? And now, in honor of the...

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Gary King on Big Data Analysis

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 1, 2017

When looking at big data, says computational social scientist Gary King, “The data itself isn’t likely to be particularly useful; the question is whether you can make it useful.” In this Social Science Bites podcast,...

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective

By Social Science Bites | Published: February 15, 2017

In this first of three of montages from past Social Science Bites podcasts, 15 renowned social scientists reveal their pick for "Which piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you?"

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Michelle Baddeley on the Herd

By Social Science Bites | Published: February 1, 2017

People tend to herd together, whether it's following the crowd or determining what news to accept. UCL economist Michelle Baddeley has studied this behavior and discusses what she's learned in this latest Social Science Bites...

Posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Economics, Michelle Baddeley, Neuroeconomics | Leave a comment

Sandy Pentland on Social Physics

By Social Science Bites | Published: January 3, 2017

In this Social Science Bites podcast, MIT's Sandy Pentland tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about the origins of social physics in the barren days before the advent of widespread good data and solid statistical methods and...

Posted in Social Science Bites | Tagged Big Data, Sandy Pentland, Social Physics | Leave a comment

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Ioanna Palaiologou on Play

Al Roth on Matching Markets

Theresa Marteau on Healthy Environments

Mary Bosworth on Border Criminology

Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 3

Chris Grey on Organizations

Scott Atran on Sacred Values

Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective, Part 2

Gary King on Big Data Analysis

Whose Work Most Influenced You? A Social Science Bites Retrospective

Michelle Baddeley on the Herd

Sandy Pentland on Social Physics

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