Author: Social Science Bites

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.

Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Social Science Bites
December 1, 2022

Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap

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Will Hutton on the State of Social Science
Science & Social Science
November 1, 2022

Will Hutton on the State of Social Science

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Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion
Social Science Bites
October 3, 2022

Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

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Bobby Duffy on Generation Myths
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September 1, 2022

Bobby Duffy on Generation Myths

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Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making

Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making

Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.

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Ellen Peters on Numeracy

Ellen Peters on Numeracy

A lack of ability of numbers is a serious issue in the world, in particular in the developed world, says Ellen Peters. And she’s trying to do something about that.

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Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

Jonathan Haskel on Intangibles

The knowledge economy. Intellectual property. Software. Maybe even bitcoin. All pretty much intangible, and yet all clearly real and genuinely valuable. This is the realm where economist Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College London mints his own non-physical scholarship.

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Sheila Jasanoff on Science and Technology Studies

Sheila Jasanoff on Science and Technology Studies

Sheila Jasanoff is a pioneer in the field of STS. That acronym can be unpacked as either ‘science and technology studies’ or ‘science, technology and society.’ Jasanoff — who describes herself as a sociologist of knowledge and a constructivist, trained in law, working in the tradition of the interpretive social sciences – is content with either use.

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John List on Economic Field Experiments

John List on Economic Field Experiments

Behavioral economist John List talks about his work on field experiments and how research done in the natural world can lead to insights that otherwise might be hard to tease out in a lab.

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Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools

Kathelijne Koops on Chimps and Tools

Kathelijne Koops, a biological anthropologist at the University of Zurich, works to determine what makes us human. And she approaches this quest by intensely studying the use of tools by other species across sub-Saharan Africa.

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George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect

George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect

The idea of walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is often trotted out as a metaphor for understanding empathy. The act […]

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Joel Mokyr on Economic Lessons from the Past

Joel Mokyr on Economic Lessons from the Past

In this podcast, Northwestern University’s Joel , Mokyr tells interviewer Dave Edmonds, “I use economics to understand history, and I use history to understand economics.”

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