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.
Want the full transcripts? Read any episode of Hidden Brain word for word on Podmenti. Podmenti →Most mentioned books
- 1 Art Cure. The science of how the arts save livesDaisy Fancourt · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday LifeSteven Pinker · 1× across 1 episode
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“one of my favorite books of all time is Susan Kane's Quiet. The subtitle is The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”
“and along with David Glasgow, he is co author of How Equality Wins A new vision. for an inclusive America”
“He's the author of Bonded by Evolution. The new signs of love and connection”
“He's the author of The Depths. The evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic”
“author of the book Why we ask why? the science of explanation and the human drive to understand”
“She's the author of Tell Me Where It Hurts. The new science of pain and how to heal”
“In his great novel. Anna Karanina. Leo Tolstoy spends hundreds of pages describing Count Vronsky's desperate longing to be with Anna”
“He was the author of Survival at Auschwitz, but there was a foe he confronted later in life that turned out to be in some ways as dangerous as a Nazi concentration camp”
“There's also controversy. About What what role his time and Auschwitz played in his suicide. So Ellie Wizell. Famously. said that Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years later. He kind of attributed the suicide to Auschwitz. But Yeah. Thompson, his definitive biographer, had a much more prosaic account of his death”
“George Lowenstein is a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The Opposite of Happiness, How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us”
“In seventeen fifty nine. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire published a satirical novel about a young man and his tutor. Panglass, the tutor, Instructs the student candid”
“She's the author of Joyful Anyway. As well as Everything happens for a reason. And No cure for being human”
“She's the author of Joyful Anyway. As well as Everything happens for a reason. And No cure for being human”
“She's the author of The Awakened Brain. The new science of spiritual and our quest for an inspired life”
“He's the author of many books, including Agency. The psychological history of human progress”
“Martin Seligman is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including most recently, Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress”
“Anthony is the author of the book. Jolted. Why we quit? When to stay? and why it matters”
“He's the author of Inspiration. Where the best ideas come from”
“He's the author, most recently, of the book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. Common knowledge and the mysteries of money, power, and everyday life”
“She is the author of Art Cure. The science of how the arts save lives”
“In the seventeenth century novel Don Quixote, the hero, an aging knight, sets his sight on a woman named Aldonza Lorenzo”
“In fact, his imagination of Beatrice eventually became the inspiration for um his divine comedy, and uh Beatrice took on the role of savior in that work”
“With Harry Reese, she's the author of How to Feel Loved The five mindsets that get you more of what matters most”
“Peter has written and co written several books about emotional intelligence, including The Emotionally Intelligent Manager, how to develop and use the four key emotional skills of leadership”
“She's the author of Right Kind of Wrong. The science of failing well”
“John Dinsmore is the author of The Marketing of Debt. how they get you”
“which he wrote in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is one of the most popular narrative”
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“Along with Dominic Packer, he is the author of The Power of Us. Harnessing our shared identities to improve performance. Increase cooperation and promote social harmony”
“In his book, Bowling Alone. The political scientist Robert Putnam argued that since the 1950s, Americans were engaging less with social groups”
“She's the author of Tell Me Where It Hurts. The new science of pain and how to heal”
“With Zindel Siegel. He's the author of Better in Every Sense. How the new signs of sensation can help you reclaim your life”
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“She's the author of The Awakened Brain, The New Science of Spirituality. and our quest for an inspired life”
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“Lisa Miller is the author of The Awakened Brain. The new science of spirituality. And our quest for an inspired life”
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