170 Episodes

  1. Why does democracy fall apart and authoritarianism rise?, with Thomas Carothers

    Published: 11/13/2020
  2. Questioning how much social media plays a role in political polarization, with Levi Boxell

    Published: 11/11/2020
  3. Are some political party stances due to randomness and chance?, with Michael Macy

    Published: 11/6/2020
  4. How does Facebook increase political polarization and animosity?, with Jaime Settle

    Published: 10/22/2020
  5. Examining causes of polarization in the U.S. and other countries, with Jennifer McCoy

    Published: 10/9/2020
  6. Do violent protests and riots cause people to vote more conservatively?, with Omar Wasow

    Published: 9/17/2020
  7. Understanding violent protester behavior: an interview with a Portland antifa/BLM protester

    Published: 9/2/2020
  8. Did Cambridge Analytica exaggerate their abilities and not actually do anything impressive?, with Dave Karpf

    Published: 8/22/2020
  9. Evaluating psych patients in the ER, and discussion of personality disorders, with Rob Tarzwell

    Published: 8/9/2020
  10. Is some offensive behavior due to psychological conditions?, with Timothy Jay

    Published: 8/2/2020
  11. Can you predict schizophrenia by studying the language of teenagers?, with Neguine Rezaii

    Published: 7/17/2020
  12. Can you see what people are thinking with a scan of their brain?, with Marcel Just

    Published: 6/6/2020
  13. Indicators that English text is written by a native Russian speaker, with Brian Baer

    Published: 5/29/2020
  14. Interpreting brain imaging, with Rob Tarzwell

    Published: 5/20/2020
  15. Reading behavior in Rock Paper Scissors, with Jason Simmons, aka Master Roshambollah

    Published: 3/25/2020
  16. Driving a San Francisco city bus, with Brendan Bartholomew

    Published: 3/20/2020
  17. What does skin conductance (aka GSR aka EDA) tell us?, with Christopher Moyer

    Published: 12/28/2019
  18. Behavior in social deduction game Secret Hitler, with Polina Vorozheykina

    Published: 11/1/2019
  19. Indicators of fake Amazon reviews, with Olu Popoola

    Published: 8/4/2019
  20. Prison life and behavior, with Benjamin Moots

    Published: 8/2/2019

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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.