Hidden Brain Recent episodes of Hidden Brain podcast can now be found at hiddenbrain.org. Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world-– and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain's host Shankar Vedantam reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships.
Laughter: The Best Medicine
Patty Ramge leans against her Ford Pinto in 1978. Since then, the car has become one of the most infamous vehicles in American history, known for a design that made it vulnerable in low-speed accidents. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption
The Halo Effect
Social psychologist Keith Payne says we have a bias toward comparing ourselves to people who have more than us, rather than those who have less Marcus Butt/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
Why Nobody Feels Rich
Secret Friends
The Fee-for-Service Monster
Finding Meaning At Work: How We Shape And Think About Our Jobs
You 2.0: Empathy Gym
You 2.0: WOOP, WOOP!
A young Maya Shankar. Courtesy of Maya Shankar hide caption
You 2.0: Loss And Renewal
Derek Amato became a musical savant after a traumatic accident. Derek Amato hide caption
You 2.0: Fresh Starts
You 2.0: The Mind's Eye
You 2.0: Our Pursuit of Happiness
Edge Effect
In The Heat Of The Moment
The Untold Story Of Lyndie B. Hawkins
Actors reading during the recording of an episode of the radio soap opera "Musekeweya" in Kigali, produced by the NGO Radio La Benevolencija. Twice a week, people all around Rwanda gather in groups to listen together. Stephanie Aglietti/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda
At seventeen years old, Fred Clay was sentenced to prison for a crime he did not commit. Various flawed ideas in psychology were used to determine his guilt. Ken Richardson/Ken Richardson hide caption
The Night That Lasted A Lifetime
Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves, yet he also wrote that "all men are created equal." How did he square the contradictions between his values and his everyday life? ericfoltz/Getty Images hide caption
The Founding Contradiction
Economist Amir Sufi says debt plays a bigger role in recessions than we typically recognize. erhui1979/Getty Images hide caption
Buy, Borrow, Steal
The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Olutosin Oduwole at his home in New Jersey in 2016. Shankar Vedantam/NPR hide caption
A Rap on Trial
The Air We Breathe
Graduating High School During A Recession Could Be A Good Thing, Study Finds
