Hidden Brain
Why do I feel stuck? How can I become more creative? What can I do to improve my relationships? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. On Hidden Brain, we help you understand your own mind — and the minds of the people around you. (We're routinely rated the #1 science podcast in the United States.) Hosted by veteran science journalist Shankar Vedantam.
What Your Online Self Reveals About You
The Secret to Gift-Giving
How Monsters are Made
The Power of Family Stories
Emotions 2.0: The Logic of Rage
Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy?
Emotions 2.0: The Benefits of Mixed Emotions
Emotions 2.0: The Feeling that Moves Us Forward
Emotions 2.0: When I Feel What You Feel
How to Win People Over
What's Hidden in Your Words
Sitting With Uncertainty
Rewrite Your Money Story
You 2.0: Fighting Despair
You 2.0: Remember More, Forget Less
You 2.0: How To Say No
You 2.0: Taking Control of Your Time
You 2.0: The Gift of Other People
You're Not the Boss of Me!
The Cure for Self-Importance
Where Truth Lies
How To Be Alone
Changing Our Mental Maps
Out of the Rabbit Hole
Befriending Your Inner Voice
Making the World Sparkle Again
Our God-Shaped Brains
Why You Feel Empty
Why Trying Too Hard Can Backfire On You
Innovation 2.0: Do Less
Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps
Innovation 2.0: The Influence You Have
Innovation 2.0: Multiplying the Growth Mindset
Innovation 2.0: How Big Ideas Are Born
Parents: Keep Out!
The Curious Science of Cravings
What Is Normal?
The Transformative Ideas of Daniel Kahneman
Are You Listening?
The Ventilator
Escaping the Matrix
Fear Less
US 2.0: Lincoln's Dilemma
US 2.0: Not at the Dinner Table
US 2.0: Living With Our Differences
US 2.0: Win Hearts, Then Minds
US 2.0: What We Have In Common
Are Your Memories Real?
Finding Focus
Where Do Feelings Come From?
Making the Most of Your Mistakes
What Would Socrates Do?
How to Believe in Yourself
The Ugly Side of Beauty
The Mystery of Beauty
Healing 2.0: The Power of Apologies
Healing 2.0: Disrupting Death
Healing 2.0: Life After Loss
Healing 2.0: What We Gain from Pain
Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life
The Enemies of Gratitude
Follow the Anomalies
How to Spot a Scam
Escaping Perfectionism
The Secret to Great Teams
Outsmarting Yourself
How We Live With Contradictions
Being Kind to Yourself
You 2.0: Make the Good Times Last
You 2.0: Slow Down!
You 2.0: Your Future Is Now
You 2.0: How to Break Out of a Rut
The Truth About Honesty
Learning From Your Mistakes
The Path to Enough
The Paradox of Pleasure
How Others See You
The Best Years of Your Life
When to Eat the Marshmallow
Between Two Worlds
Seeking Serenity: Part 2
Seeking Serenity: Part 1
Success 2.0: Getting to the Top and Staying There
Success 2.0: The Psychology of Self-Doubt
Success 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See
Introducing Hidden Brain+
Success 2.0: Getting What You Want
Success 2.0: Taking the Leap
A Secret Source of Connection
Remember More, Forget Less
Crying Wolf
The Snowball Effect
Less is More
How To Make Amends
Made of Honor
Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2
Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1
How Your Beliefs Shape Reality
Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button
Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy
Happiness 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose
Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through
Happiness 2.0: The Path to Contentment
When You Need It To Be True
Persuasion: Part 2
Persuasion: Part 1
Who's In Your Inner Circle?
Who Do You Want To Be?
You, But Better
How to Complain Productively
An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems
The Secret to Gift Giving
Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive
Relationships 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
Relationships 2.0: An Antidote to Loneliness
Relationships 2.0: The Power of Tiny Interactions
Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling
A Better Way to Worry
Thriving in the Face of Contradiction
Did I Really Do That?
Watch Your Mouth
Taking Control of Your Time
How to Really Know Another Person
Decoding Emotions
Making the World a Safer Place
You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind
You 2.0: Overcoming Stage Fright
You 2.0: The Mind's Eye
You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly
You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice
Reframing Your Reality: Part 2
Reframing Your Reality: Part 1
Separating Yourself from the Pack
What We Gain from Pain
A Founding Contradiction
The Premonition
Why You're Smarter Than You Think
Do Less
Money 2.0: Let's Go Shopping!
Money 2.0: The Rich and the Rest of Us
Money 2.0: Emotional Currency
Money 2.0: Why We Bust Our Budgets
Money 2.0: Rewrite Your Money Story
The Logic of Rage
When Doing Right Feels Wrong
A Conspiracy of Silence
How Rude!
Healing Your Heart
You Don't Need a Crystal Ball
How to Change the World
You Can't Hit Unsend
The Benefits of Mixed Emotions
Putting Our Assumptions to the Test
Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong
Mind Reading 2.0: Our Better Angels
Mind Reading 2.0: The Double Standard
Mind Reading 2.0: How others see you
Mind Reading 2.0: Why did you do that?
My Unsung Hero: Sanaa Kerroumi's Story
Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy
What Makes Relationships Thrive
My Unsung Hero: Wendy McDowell's Story
Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs
Choose Carefully
Creatures of Habit
My Unsung Hero: Justin Horner's Story
Bringing Up Baby
The Psychology of Self-Doubt
My Unsung Hero: Leah Bartell's Story
Both Things Can Be True
Work 2.0: The One-Room Commute
My Unsung Hero: Tony Ludlow's Story
Work 2.0: Rebel with a Cause
Work 2.0: Life, Interrupted
My Unsung Hero: Terri Powers' Story
Work 2.0: Game On!
Work 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See
We Broke the Planet. Now What?
My Unsung Hero: Rick Mangnall's Story
The Halo Effect
Being Kind to Yourself
My Unsung Hero: Jackie Briggs' Story
When You Need It To Be True
Passion Isn't Enough
Introducing My Unsung Hero
Group Think
Just Sex
Where Happiness Hides
You 2.0: Regrets, I Have a Few...
You 2.0: Did That Really Happen?
You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
You 2.0: In the Heat of the Moment
You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose
Losing Alaska
Stage Fright
Playing the Gender Card
You, But Better
The Influence You Have
What Twins Tell Us
The Power of Apologies
The Power of Mercy
What are the Odds?
This is Your Brain on Ads
Why We Hold on to Things
Loss and Renewal
Tribes and Traitors
Our Noisy Minds
The Fake Bride
Josh Gitelson: My Unsung Hero
One Head, Two Brains
Deb Pierce: My Unsung Hero
Why Conversations Go Wrong
Unsung Hero: A Cold Nevada Night
Humor Us
An Unfinished Lesson
Useful Delusions
Made of Honor
The Story of Your Life
The Story of Stories
Radically Normal
The Snowball Effect
The Match
Creating God
Is It Better to Know?
Love is Blind
How They See Us
The Easiest Person to Fool
Afraid of the Wrong Things
Our Brands, Our Selves
The Secret Life of Secrets
The Double Standard
A Creature of Habit
Waiting Games
Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy
Screaming into a Void
A Conspiracy of Silence
Where Gratitude Gets You
When You Start to Miss Tony from Accounting
Between Two Worlds
From Pedestals to Guillotines
Not at the Dinner Table
Moral Combat
Beyond Doomscrolling
The Logic of Rage
An Update from Shankar
Laughter: The Best Medicine
The Halo Effect
Why Nobody Feels Rich
The Fee-for-Service Monster
You 2.0: Empathy Gym
You 2.0: WOOP, WOOP!
You 2.0: Loss And Renewal
You 2.0: The Mind's Eye
You 2.0: Our Pursuit of Happiness
Edge Effect
The Untold Story Of Lyndie B. Hawkins
Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda
The Night That Lasted A Lifetime
The Founding Contradiction
Buy, Borrow, Steal
A Rap on Trial
The Air We Breathe
Playing Favorites
Justifying The Means
The Time Machine
The People Like Us
Our Better Angels
A Hidden Brain Commencement Address
The Dramatic Cure
The Choices Before Us
Starving The Watchdogs
A Social Prescription
Sex Machines
Playing Tight And Loose
Close Enough: Living Through Others
An Unfinished Lesson
Panic In The Street
The Bomb That Didn't Explode
The Tale of the Cowboy Philosopher
The Influence You Have
Liar, Liar, Liar
Passion Isn't Enough
When Things Click
Secret Friends
Warnings, Warnings Everywhere
Emotional Currency
On The Knife's Edge
Creatures Of Habit
Why We Love Surprises
Did That Really Happen?
Zipcode Destiny
In The Heat Of The Moment
Counting Other People's Blessings
The Ventilator
Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus
The Talk Market
BS Jobs
The Monkey Marketplace
The Lonely American Man
Screaming Into The Void
Baby Talk
We're All Gonna Live Forever!
We're All Gonna Die!
You Can't Hit Unsend
You 2.0: Decide Already!
You 2.0: Deep Work
You 2.0: Rebel With A Cause
You 2.0: Our Better Nature
You 2.0: Tunnel Vision
You 2.0: The Empathy Gym
Facts Aren't Enough
Finding Your Voice
The Fox And The Hedgehog
I Buy, Therefore I Am
The Lazarus Drug
Our Animal Instincts
Me, Myself, and IKEA
People Like Us
More Divided Than Ever?
Losing Face
What's Not On The Test
Creating God
A Dramatic Cure
Why No One Feels Rich
The Sorting Hat
Radically Normal
Don't Panic!
What Twins Tell Us
Never Go To Vegas
Unreal Sex
For Sale, By Owner
Radio Replay: Playing The Gender Card
Better Than Cash
Emma, Carrie, Vivian
Close Enough
One Head, Two Brains
Radio Replay: Creative Differences
Rewinding & Rewriting
The Vegetable Lamb
The Best Medicine
The Cowboy Philosopher
Loss and Renewal
Compassion
Radio Replay: Yum and Yuck
Alan Alda Wants Us To Have Better Conversations
Starving the Watchdog
Spoiler Alert!
A Founding Contradiction
Radio Replay: Bringing Up Baby
The Edge of Gender
Zipcode Destiny
Sounds Like a Winner
The Lazarus Drug
Radio Replay: Too Little, Too Much
Be The Change
Voting With Your Middle Finger
Red Brain, Blue Brain
"Man Up"
Why Now?
Radio Replay: Eyes Wide Open
The Cassandra Curse
Our Better Nature
Bullshit Jobs
You 2.0: Check Yourself
You 2.0: Originals
You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
You 2.0: The Ostrich Effect
You 2.0: Dream Jobs
You 2.0: Rebel With A Cause
Radio Replay: Watch Your Mouth
Creating God
Snooki and the Handbag
The Edge Effect
Fake News: An Origin Story
Radio Replay: Looking Back
Summer Melt
Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus
When Everything Clicks
Kinder-Gardening
Rewinding & Rewriting
Radio Replay: This Is Your Brain On Ads
Baby Talk
Rap on Trial
The Fox and the Hedgehog
Emma, Carrie, Vivian
Radio Replay: The Weight of Our Words
Romeo and Juliet in Kigali
Liar, Liar
Tunnel Vision
Crickets and Cannibals
The Lonely American Man
Radio Replay: The Mind of the Village
Think Fast with Daniel Kahneman
Men: 45, Women: 0
Counting Other People's Blessings
Filthy Rich
When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
Why Now?
Lost in Translation
Radio Replay: The Power Hour
Alan Alda Wants Us To Have Better Conversations
Give Me Your Tired...
Radio Replay: I, Robot
E Pluribus Unum?
Buying Attention
Radio Replay: Fresh Starts
I'm Right, You're Wrong
Radio Replay: Don't Panic!
Never Go To Vegas
Kinder-Gardening
Radio Replay: Loving the Lie
The Sorting Hat
Radio Replay: Life, Interrupted
Money Talks
An American Secret
Radio Replay: Crime As A Disease
Eyes Wide Open: Part 2
Eyes Wide Open: Part 1
Radio Replay: Prisons of Our Own Making
Check Yourself
Radio Replay: What's In It For Me?
Misbehaving with Richard Thaler
The Good Old Days
The Edge of Gender
Be The Change
Just Sex
The Ostrich Effect
Regrets, I Have A Few...
Hiding Behind Free Speech
You 2.0: Getting Unstuck
You 2.0: Decide Already!
You 2.0: WOOP, There It Is
You 2.0: Embrace the Chaos
You 2.0: Dream Jobs
You 2.0: Deep Work
Summer Melt
Could You Kill A Robot?
Losing Face
Guessing Games
"Is he Muslim?"
Rap on Trial
In The Air We Breathe
Broken Windows
Me, Myself, and IKEA
Ep. 71: The Fox and the Hedgehog
Encore of Ep. 45: What Are The Odds?
Ep. 70: Who We Are At 2 A.M.
Episode 69: Money Talks
Ep. 68: Schadenfacebook
Encore of Ep. 35: Creature Comforts
Ep. 67: The Hole
Ep. 66: Liar, Liar
Episode 65: Tunnel Vision
Ep. 64: I'm Right, You're Wrong
Encore of Ep. 24: Tribes and Traitors
Ep. 63: "I'm Not A Terrorist..."
Episode 62: On The Knife's Edge
Episode 61: Just Sex
Encore of Episode 20: Remembering Anarcha
Episode 60: Fortress America
Episode 59: The Deep Story
Episode 58: Pedestals and Guillotines
Episode 57: Slanguage
Episode 56: Getting Unstuck
Encore of Episode 15: Loss and Renewal
Encore of Episode 32: The Scientific Process
Episode 55: Snooki and the Handbag
Episode 54: Panic in the Streets
Episode 53: Embrace the Chaos
Episode 52: Losing Face
Episode 51: What Happened?
Encore of Episode 27: Losing Alaska
Episode 50: Broken Windows
Episode 49: Filthy Rich
Episode 48: Men: 44, Women: 0
Episode 47: Give Me Your Tired...
Episode 46: Blessings in Disguise?
Episode 45: What Are The Odds?
Trailer: Hidden Brain 2.0
Update: #AirbnbWhileBlack
Episode 44: Our Politics, Our Parenting
Episode 43: The Perils of Power
Encore of Episode 21: Stroke of Genius
Episode 42: Decide Already!
Encore of Episode 11: Forgery
Episode 41: Defeated
Episode 40: Silver and Gold
Encore of Episode 7: Lonely Hearts
Episode 39: Vacations
Episode 38: Me, Me, Me
Episode 37: Smoke & Mirrors
Episode 36: Science of Deception
Episode 35: Creature Comforts
Encore of Episode 13: Terrorism
Episode 34: Google at Work
Episode 33: Food for Thought
Episode 32: The Scientific Process
Episode 31: Your Brain on Uber
Episode 30: WOOP, There It Is
Episode 29: Traffic
Episode 28: #AirbnbWhileBlack
Episode 27: Losing Alaska
Encore of Episode 16: Misbehaving
Episode 26: Grit
Episode 25: Dream Jobs
Episode 24: Tribes and Traitors
Episode 23: Boredom
Encore of Episode 9: Aziz Ansari on Modern Love
Episode 22: Originals
Episode 21: Stroke of Genius
Episode 20: Remembering Anarcha
Episode 19: Dating and Mating
Encore of Episode 2: Near Victories
Episode 18: The Paradox of Forgiveness
Episode 17: Resolutions
Episode 16: Misbehaving
Encore of Episode 3: Stereotype Threat
Episode 15: Loss and Renewal
Episode 14: Christmas
Episode 13: Terrorism
Episode 12: Humor
Episode 11: Forgery
Episode 10: Thanksgiving
Episode 9: Aziz Ansari on Modern Love
Episode 8: Back Up Plans
Episode 7: Lonely Hearts
Episode 6: The Science of Fear
Episode 5: Compassion
Episode 4: Students and Teachers
Episode 3: Stereotype Threat
Brain Bonus: Magic Brain
Episode 2: Near Victories
Episode 1: Switchtracking
Hidden Brain: A Sneak Peek
