I discovered the podcast series “Alles gesagt?” this summer. A team of journalists interviews an “extraordinary person” until the interviewee feels everything has been said. Some of the interviews go for up to 8h! I’ve been working my way through some of the interviews and found the ones with Juli Zeh, Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, and Luisa Neubauer quite stimulating. I found myself thinking about the crucial role of psychological science in many of the topics addressed, including the power and limits of algorithms in aiding decision making (Zeh), the communication of evidence and risk (Nguyen-Kim), and the role of changing attitudes and behaviors in addressing climate change (Neubauer). Occupational disease?

These are uncertain times but science can help us navigate uncertainty by investigating the best strategies to talk about and understand many of the risks that surround us all, from health epidemics to climate change.

David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication has a new podcast – Risky Talk – that covers many of these topics – check it out!

I’d like to recommend a podcast that may be interesting to many of us interested in psychology – NPR’s Hidden Brain.

The podcast typically features interviews with behavioural scientists, such as psychologists and economists, and gives informative and entertaining accounts of recent research in these areas. For example, recently, it has had episodes on job crafting (Amy Wrzesniewski) , affective forecasting (Dan Gilbert),  or regret (Amy Summerville), that should be interesting to many of us in the Social, Economic, and Decision Psychology area. Enjoy!