Hidden Brain

Host: Shankar Vedantam
Category:
Science & Math > Psychology
Storytelling > Various
Podcast Samples:
Liar, Liar

Fake News - An Origin Story

About the Podcast

Millions of radio listeners have enjoyed NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam’s engaging reports on social science research, and now fans can listen to Shankar’s insights on human behavior anytime, anywhere in a weekly 20-minute podcast and an hour-long broadcast program blending science and storytelling. <hr> Have you ever wondered why mind-mannered people turn into fearsome mama and papa bears? Does the way you park your car say something vital about you? Hidden Brain seeks to answer these questions and more, exploring the nexus of psychology, neurobiology, social science, and popular culture. With Shankar Vedantam's knowledge, wit and sense of humor played against scientifically rigorous topics, Hidden Brain will reveal the patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices and the imperceptible forces that influence our relationships.

About the Host

Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is NPR's social science correspondent and the host of Hidden Brain. The focus of his reporting is on human behavior and the social sciences, and how research in those fields can get listeners to think about the news in unusual and interesting ways. Hidden Brain is among the most popular podcasts in the world, with over two million downloads per week. The Hidden Brain radio show is featured on some 250 public radio stations across the United States. Before joining NPR in 2011, Vedantam spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he also wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post. Vedantam and Hidden Brain have been recognized with the Edward R. Murrow Award, and honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Austen Riggs Center, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Webby Awards, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the American Public Health Association, the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship on Science and Religion and the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship. From 2009 to 2010, Vedantam served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Vedantam is the author of the non-fiction book The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives. The book, published in 2010, describes how unconscious biases influence people. Outside of journalism, Vedantam has written fiction and plays. His short story-collection, The Ghosts of Kashmir, was published in 2005. The previous year, the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia produced his full-length comedy, Tom, Dick and Harriet. Vedantam has served as a part-time lecturer at Harvard University and Columbia University. He has also served as a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington.

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