Stanford Psychology Podcast
Stanford Psychology
The student-led Stanford Psychology Podcast invites leading psychologists to talk about what’s on their mind lately. Join Eric Neumann, Anjie Cao, Kate Petrova, Bella Fascendini, Joseph Outa and Julia Rathmann-Bloch as they chat with their guests about their latest exciting work. Every week, an episode will bring you new findings from psychological science and how they can be applied to everyday life. The opinions and views expressed in this podcast represent those of the speaker and not necessarily Stanford's. Subscribe at stanfordpsypod.substack.com. Let us hear your thoughts at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @StanfordPsyPod. Visit our website https://stanfordpsychologypodcast.com. Soundtrack: Corey Zhou (UCSD). Logo: Sarah Wu (Stanford)
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75 - Russ Poldrack: What can neuroimaging research tell us about the brain and why is reproducible neuroscience important?
Stanford Psychology Podcast
12/08/22 • 54 min
Bella chats with professor Russ Poldrack.
Russ is the Albert Ray Lang professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he directs the Poldrack lab. Russ also serves as the director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and the SDS center for Open and Reproducible science. Russ and his lab use cognitive, computational, and neuroimaging approaches to study how decision-making, executive control, and learning and memory are implemented in the human brain.
In this episode, we discussed Russ's research in cognitive neuroscience using neuroimaging techniques such as MRI and fMRI, as well as his effort and contribution to reproducible science. For example, along with colleagues, Russ created and is currently managing a platform called Openneuro, an Open Archive For Analysis And Sharing Of Brain Initiative Data. Russ also talked about an innovative and fascinating study called “My connectome project”, in which he was his own subject for 18 months. He then shared interesting findings from this project and how this project had impacted how he thinks about his brain and future neuroimaging research.
In the end, Russ shared his advice and tips with people who are applying to graduate school in neuroscience, as well as a fun story about discovering a surprising finding in his own brain.
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Links:
Russ's lab: https://poldracklab.stanford.edu/
Russ’s Twitter: @russpoldrack
Russ’s books:
- Hard to Break: why our brains make habits stick https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194325/hard-to-brea
- The New Mind Readers https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178615/the-new-mind-readers
Bella's website: https://bellafascendini.github.io/
Bella's Twitter: @BellaFascendini
Podcast Twitter: @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack: https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you think of this episode or the podcast! :) [email protected]
74 - Johannes Eichstaedt: Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness?
Stanford Psychology Podcast
12/01/22 • 47 min
Anjie chats with Dr. Johannes Eichstaedt, an Assistant Professor in Psychology, and the Shriram Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. Johannes directs the Computational Psychology and Well-Being lab. His research focuses on using social media (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, ...) to measure the psychological states of large populations and individuals to determine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that drive physical illness (like heart disease), depression, or support psychological well-being. In this episode, Anjie and Johannes chat about how social media could be a lens to understand mental illnesses such as depression. Johannes also shares his thoughts on the emerging trends in social media, and how some powerful technocrats in Silicon Valley might have some huge blind spots in understanding human nature.
If you found this episode interesting at all, subscribe on our Substackand consider leaving us a good rating! It just takes a second but will allow us to reach more people and make them excited about psychology.
Links:
Johannes’s Twitter: @JEichstaedt
Johannes’s lab website: https://cpwb.stanford.edu/
Anjie’s: website: anjiecao.github.io
Anjie’s Twitter @anjie_cao
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]
51 - Elika Bergelson: How Babies Learn Words
Stanford Psychology Podcast
06/23/22 • 43 min
Anjie chats with Dr. Elika Bergelson. Elika is a Crandall Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Her research aims to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition. In this episode, Elika shares a recent perspective piece titled: “The comprehension boost in early word learning: Older infants are better learners”. Elika talks about how babies learn words, and how researchers get to know what babies know.
You can read the article we discussed here:
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdep.12373
To learn more about Elika’s research, you can visit her lab’s website: https://bergelsonlab.com/
or follow them on twitter @bergelsonlab).
126 - Michele Gelfand: Culture and Conflict
Stanford Psychology Podcast
02/15/24 • 50 min
Eric chats with Michele Gelfand, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Michele’s culture lab studies the strength of cultural norms, negotiation, conflict, revenge, forgiveness, and diversity, drawing on many different disciplines. Michele is world-renowned for her work on how some cultures have stronger enforcement of norms (tight cultures), while others are more tolerant of deviations from the norm (loose cultures). She is the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers.
In this chat, Eric and Michele discuss the latest insights into loose and tight cultures, what academic disciplines are tight versus loose, and how this framework explains phenomena as disconnected as Covid fears, the appeal of populist leaders, and why Ernie and Bert have so many disagreements. Michele then shares how she stays so passionate and productive, the barriers she has faced trying to be so interdisciplinary, how she deals with setbacks, and why she sometimes dresses up as a pickle.
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Links
Book: https://www.michelegelfand.com/rule-makers-rule-breakers
How tight or loose are you? https://www.michelegelfand.com/tl-quiz
Tight vs loose cultures: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1197754?casa_token=P4iNAMuyYeQAAAAA:gyWMq9sohJJ0LsH-bBRg844OqN8-e9AwiVb649lkXe8cXzCP5jcSmqtAojp-1Lfvg5itKyD2nPP8J4g
Culture, threat, tightness and looseness: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2113891119
Eric's website
Eric's Twitter @EricNeumannPsy
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you think of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]
02 - Michael Frank: The Universals and Variations of Children's Early Language Learning
Stanford Psychology Podcast
07/09/21 • 30 min
In this episode, Anjie chats with Michael Frank, a professor in the Psychology Department here at Stanford University. He is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Human Biology and is the director of the Symbolic Systems Program. Mike studies language use and language learning, with a focus on early word learning. In this episode, they talk about his recent book on early language acquisition, Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: The Wordbank Project. Mike also shares how the research has informed his own parenting practices.
Book link: https://langcog.github.io/wordbank-book/
Wordbank project: http://wordbank.stanford.edu/
142 - Meet the Hosts: Kate Petrova
Stanford Psychology Podcast
11/22/24 • 50 min
Adani chats with Kate Petrova, one of the first hosts of the Stanford Psychology Podcast and a fourth-year Ph.D. student in psychology at Stanford University. In this special episode from our Meet the Host series, Kate shares her journey into research and science communication, and how she grappled with the ups and downs of graduate school! She also discusses the value and challenges of interdisciplinarity, what affective science is and could look like in the future, and what most excites her about that picture!
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Kate’s website: https://www.kpetrova.com/home
Kate’s twitter: @kate_ptrv
Kate’s paper on The Future of Emotion Regulation Research: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00222-0
Kate’s first episode with her advisor, Dr. James Gross: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pSGtdQmywj2ubmFAeaDL5?si=1ZFsw45OQGKvWClAG6VYQg
Adani’s website: https://www.adaniabutto.com
Adani’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adani.bsky.social
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack Stanford Psychology Podcast
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138 - Hal Hershfield: Connecting with Your Future Self for a Better Tomorrow
Stanford Psychology Podcast
09/26/24 • 37 min
This week, Enna chats with Dr. Hal Hershfield, Professor of Marketing, Behavioral Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA Anderson School of Management. In 2017, Hal was recognized as a 40 under 40 best business school professor. This year, he was voted as faculty of the year by MBA students at UCLA.
Hal studies how thinking about time transforms the emotions and alters the judgments and decisions people make. His research concentrates on the psychology of long-term decision making and how time affects people’s lives — specifically at a moment when Americans are living longer and saving less.
Hal earned his PhD at Stanford Psychology under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Carstensen, who is Enna’s PhD advisor currently. In this episode, Hal shares his journey in psychology, talks about his research on time and decision making as well as his recent book, Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today, an insightful and entertaining guide to grow into our ideal selves.
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Hal’s website: https://www.halhershfield.com/
Hal’s book: https://www.halhershfield.com/yourfutureself
Hal’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hal-hershfield/
Hal’s Twitter: @HalHershfield
Enna’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ennayuxuanchen/
Enna’s Twitter: @EnnaYuxuanChen
Podcast Contact: [email protected]
Podcast Twitter: @StanfordPsyPod
132 - Nilam Ram: Learning from The Human Screenome Project
Stanford Psychology Podcast
05/23/24 • 36 min
Anjie chats with Dr. Nilam Ram. Nilam is a Professor of Communications & Psychology at Stanford University, and he studies how short-term changes develop across the life span and how longitudinal study designs contribute to the generation of new knowledge. Nilam is developing a variety of study paradigms that use recent developments in data science and the intensive data streams arriving from social media, mobile sensors, and smartphones to study behavioral change at multiple time scales. In this episode, we take a look at one of the paradigms that he has been working on: the Human Screenome Project, an ambitious project that has participants’ phone screens captured every five seconds for over a year as a way to record their specific ways of interacting with phones. Nilam shares how his thinking around generalizability has evolved over the course of the project.
Nilam’s paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00273171.2023.2229305
Nilam’s lab website: https://thechangelab.stanford.edu
Anjie’s: website: anjiecao.github.io
Anjie’s Twitter @anjie_cao
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]
131 - Johannes Eichstaedt: Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness? (REAIR)
Stanford Psychology Podcast
04/25/24 • 47 min
Anjie chats with Dr. Johannes Eichstaedt, an Assistant Professor in Psychology, and the Shriram Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. Johannes directs the Computational Psychology and Well-Being lab. His research focuses on using social media (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, ...) to measure the psychological states of large populations and individuals to determine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that drive physical illness (like heart disease), depression, or support psychological well-being. In this episode, Anjie and Johannes chat about how social media could be a lens to understand mental illnesses such as depression. Johannes also shares his thoughts on the emerging trends in social media, and how some powerful technocrats in Silicon Valley might have some huge blind spots in understanding human nature.
If you found this episode interesting at all, subscribe on our Substackand consider leaving us a good rating! It just takes a second but will allow us to reach more people and make them excited about psychology.
Links:
Johannes’s Twitter: @JEichstaedt
Johannes’s lab website: https://cpwb.stanford.edu/
Anjie’s: website: anjiecao.github.io
Anjie’s Twitter @anjie_cao
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]
140 - Julia Chatain: Embodied Learning and Educational Technology in Mathematics and Beyond
Stanford Psychology Podcast
10/25/24 • 37 min
Adani chats with Dr. Julia Chatain, Senior Scientist at the Singapore-ETH Centre of ETH Zürich. Julia is a computer scientist and learning scientist responsible for building a new research program, “Future Embodied Learning Technologies” (FELT), focusing on exploring AI-powered embodied learning interventions to support low-progress learners and learners with special needs, both at the cognitive and the affective levels. Before that, she led the EduTech group at ETH Zürich, conducting Research and Development of educational technology through co-design with lecturers and students, with a focus on XR, AI-supported learning, and accessibility.
In this episode, Adani and Julia discuss Julia’s recent work on embodied learning in mathematics, much of which was part of her doctoral research at ETH Zürich conducted with her advisors Prof. Manu Kapur and Prof. Robert Sumner. They also dive into her journey that led her to where she is now, and discuss what she is currently working on at the Singapore-ETH Centre and beyond!
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Julia’s website: https://juliachatain.com/
Julia’s paper on Grounding Graph Theory in Embodied Concreteness with VR: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000583039
Singapore-ETH Centre’s website: https://sec.ethz.ch/
Julia’s Twitter @JuliaChatain
Adani’s website: https://www.adaniabutto.com/
Adani’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adani.bsky.social
Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod
Podcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/
Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :)
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