170 Episodes

  1. Does blaming "media" help us avoid personal responsibility?, with Elizaveta Friesem

    Published: 8/18/2021
  2. Reading poker tells, with Dara O'Kearney

    Published: 8/11/2021
  3. Talking about police violence with politically liberal police captain James Mitchell (part 2)

    Published: 8/7/2021
  4. Why do so many people want to watch the world burn?, with Kevin Arceneaux

    Published: 7/28/2021
  5. What is quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's tell?, with Jon Hoefling

    Published: 7/25/2021
  6. Might gender identity theory itself be creating gender dysphoria?, with Carey Callahan

    Published: 7/17/2021
  7. How might we better connect with people?, with Ted Brodkin and Ashley Pallathra

    Published: 7/14/2021
  8. Reading tells in the video game Apex Legends, with Brandon Singer, aka Nocturnal

    Published: 6/26/2021
  9. Reading opponent tells in tennis, with Carlos Goffi

    Published: 6/4/2021
  10. Talking about police violence with politically liberal police captain James Mitchell (part 1)

    Published: 4/19/2021
  11. Living with anxiety, with Scott Stossel, national editor of The Atlantic

    Published: 4/14/2021
  12. Psychological and environmental factors in psychosis and schizophrenia, with Nathan Filer

    Published: 3/27/2021
  13. I talk to an 8-year-old kid

    Published: 2/25/2021
  14. Gina Assaf, who has "long haul" covid, discusses her research on it

    Published: 2/23/2021
  15. Why hasn't crowdsourcing of medical data from public disrupted healthcare?, with Jamie Heywood

    Published: 2/5/2021
  16. Reading online dating profiles (part 2), with Scott

    Published: 1/26/2021
  17. Reading online dating profiles (part 1), with Celia

    Published: 1/20/2021
  18. How does a disbelief in free will affect one's life?, with physicist Daniel Whiteson

    Published: 1/9/2021
  19. How does aphantasia (lack of mental imagery) impact one's life?, with Zach Elwood

    Published: 12/10/2020
  20. How do insults and hurt feelings affect political conflicts?, with Karina Korostelina

    Published: 11/25/2020

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This is a podcast about deciphering human behavior and understanding why people do the things they do. I, Zach Elwood, talk with people from a wide range of fields about how they make sense of human behavior and psychology. I've talked to jury consultants, interrogation professionals, behavior researchers, sports analysts, professional poker players, to name a few. There are more than 135 episodes, many of them quite good (although some say I'm biased). To learn more, go to PeopleWhoReadPeople.com.