Seasons & Episodes
Isolation
What happens when your brain is deprived of stimulation? What effect does being cut off from interaction with the outsid
Conformity
We are all unique individuals. We follow the beat of our own drum. We wouldn’t throw our own beliefs out the window ju
Destruction
We humans love to build, create, and organize. So why do we also love to destroy things? Can violently breaking stuff re
Artificial Intelligence
So you say you love your computer or smartphone...but can it love you back? As we become more dependent on technology, a
Freedom of Choice
We may value having Freedom of Choice, but are we actually happier when we have limited choices...or even no choice at a
Touch
How much of the sensations we feel is determined by our physical bodies? Maybe our minds play a bigger role than we know
In Your Face
How much do we communicate through facial expressions? Are our expressions affected by our moods, or is it the other way
Do You Know Yourself?
What makes you, you? If even the most basic parts of you, like your memories or your past, can be forgotten or manipulat
The Greater Good
Would you reroute a train to run over one person to prevent it from running over five others? In the classic “Trolley
The Psychedelic Experience
Do psychedelic drugs really bring about self-healing and personal enlightenment? New research says they may. In this e
Interrogation
Psychology. Neuroscience. Drugs. All can be tools of interrogation. In this episode, an expert shows me how to coerc
Your Brain on Tech
Technology isn’t just changing our lives. It’s literally changing our brains -- and maybe for the better. In this
How to Make a Hero
What makes a hero? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, now runs semina
The Power of Suggestion
Exactly how do placebos work? Researchers believe that, through the power of suggestion, placebos may unleash the power
Divergent Minds
Scientists can’t dissect living people’s brains to study their function. But by examining the behavior of people who
The Electric Brain
Our nervous system is fundamentally electric. We move our arm by sending a signal to the muscles that control it. That m
The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis
Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In this episode, Micha
Moral Licensing
How are our moral decisions influenced by factors we’re not aware of? A phenomenon known as Moral Licensing claims tha
The Stilwell Brain
There are 100 billion individual neurons in the human brain. Working together, they allow us to make sense of, and move
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Normal people can become monsters, given the right situation. That’s the standard narrative of the Stanford Prison Exp
Should I Die?
If I could live forever, should I? How does being reminded of our own mortality affect us psychologically? In this episo
How to Talk to Aliens
Are we alone in the universe? Even if we could contact aliens, what would we say? How would we say it? And, most importa
Behavior and Belief
How can a lie become true? In this episode, Dr. Aaron Blaisdell and I create a game show that is actually a giant "human
Mind Reading
In this episode I visit a researcher who is studying memory by using machine learning and neuroimaging to detect and pre
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