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The Snowball Effect

Hidden Brain Podcast

How do certain memes go viral? And why do some social movements take off and spread, while others fizzle? Today on the show, we talk with sociologist Damon Centola about social contagion, and how it can be harnessed to build a better world.

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Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation

Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology—which she calls powerarchy.

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Jonathan Haidt: The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

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Introduction to Social Psychology

Dr. Brenda Major, Distinguished Professor Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara

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What Is Social Psychology? An Introduction

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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, And Want

Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that...

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Why We’re Sometimes Kind Without Reason

Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.

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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

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The 9 Major Research Areas in Social Psychology

Here are just a few of the major areas of interest within social psychology.

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How Scammers Like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler Exploit a Core Feature of Human Nature

Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.

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Community Transformation and Healing