Under the Cortex

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The podcast of the Association for Psychological Science. What does science tell us about the way we think, behave, and learn about the world around us? Under the Cortex is proudly sponsored by Macmillan Learning Psychology, where captivating content meets genuine engagement. Our authors, who are seasoned educators, understand today’s teaching challenges. We aim to craft and present both information and interactive tools that truly connect with students. Whether in-person or online, we support instructors and inspire students. Macmillan Learning Psychology: Engaging Every Student, Supporting Every Instructor, Setting New Standards for Teaching and Learning.

Episode Date
How Our Brains Grasp Faces
Aug 07, 2025
The Cost of Efficiency: Exploring Doubling-Back Aversion
Jul 24, 2025
Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration
Jul 10, 2025
Two Maps in the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
Jun 26, 2025
Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation with Arturo Hernandez
Jun 12, 2025
Real-Time Research: How the Experience Sampling Method Is Changing Psychology
May 29, 2025
Why Do Emotions Hijack Our Decisions? The Neuroscience of Impulsivity
May 15, 2025
Beyond Words: Why TalkBank is Crucial for Spoken Language Research
May 01, 2025
Ensuring Research Validity: A Checklist for Stronger Science
Apr 17, 2025
Young Minds, Smart Strategies: How Children Decide When to Use External Memory Aids
Apr 03, 2025
Understanding Addiction: A General Liability or Unique Disorders?
Mar 20, 2025
Addressing Selection Bias in Disparities Research
Mar 06, 2025
Beyond Focus: How Attention Shapes Learning Differently for Children and Adults
Feb 20, 2025
Dosage Dilemma: Unpacking Meditation App Science
Feb 06, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Caregiving: Stress, Anxiety and Coping Mechanisms
Jan 23, 2025
2024 in Review: 10 Most Popular Articles from APS Journals
Jan 09, 2025
Building Bridges: Exploring Cooperation in Children
Dec 26, 2024
Heart Rates and Step Counts: A Novel Approach to Eating Disorder Care
Dec 12, 2024
Midlife-Onset Alcohol Dependence: Causes and Consequences
Nov 28, 2024
Too Many Connections? How Aging Impacts Memory and Recall
Nov 14, 2024
Green Actions, Brighter Lives: Enhancing Well-Being Through Environmental Action
Oct 31, 2024
A New Approach to Understanding Psychopathology: Insights from the HiTOP Model
Oct 17, 2024
Navigating Divisive Conversations: Why We Underestimate the Benefits
Oct 03, 2024
Friendship and Diversity: A Path to Stronger Communities?
Sep 19, 2024
What Type of Templates Do We Use for Visual Processing? Caricatures Might Be the Answer
Sep 05, 2024
The Integrity of Psychological Research: Uncovering Statistical Reporting Inconsistencies
Aug 22, 2024
The Benefits of Everyday Math for Kids
Aug 08, 2024
Racial Disparities in Drug Intervention: Culturally Inclusive Approaches
Jul 25, 2024
When Versus Whether: Gender Differences in Leadership
Jul 11, 2024
Tools to Bolster Executive Function Skills in Kids
Jun 27, 2024
Navigating Regret in Decision-Making
Jun 13, 2024
Is Everyone Out to Get Me? Paranoia in Social Interactions
May 30, 2024
Allergies or Sickness? Unraveling the Mystery of Concealing Infectious Diseases
May 16, 2024
Desire Dynamics: Navigating Intimacy and Attraction in Relationships
May 02, 2024
Shaping Kinder Kids Through Parental Example
Apr 18, 2024
Parental Engagement Enhances Children’s Therapy Experience and Outcomes
Apr 04, 2024
Twisted Tales: Unraveling the Surprising Benefits of Irony
Mar 21, 2024
What Comes Next? The Joy of Anticipating Melodies
Mar 07, 2024
Couples Who Laugh Together, Stay Together
Feb 22, 2024
Community Engagement in Psychological Research
Feb 08, 2024
Information Avoidance in the Modern Age
Jan 25, 2024
Linking Developmental Delays and Parenting Strategies With Inclusivity in Mind
Jan 11, 2024
Is Our Early Attachment Our Destiny? Finding the Link Between Attachment Patterns and Personality Disorders
Dec 28, 2023
Guilty as Charged: How We Contribute to Polarizing Content on Social Media
Dec 14, 2023
Getting Your Research Published: Insights on Academic Publishing with Simine Vazire
Nov 30, 2023
Do Risky Drinkers Think Differently? Insights From Cognitive Experiments
Nov 16, 2023
Do Lockdown Drills Create Anxiety? New Research Says No
Nov 02, 2023
Cautionary Notes: The Science of Trigger Warnings
Oct 19, 2023
Feeling Young at Heart Comes With Well-Being Benefits
Oct 05, 2023
The Tale of Two Cities: Water Access Influences Human Decision Making
Sep 21, 2023
Loneliness Across the Globe: A Life-Span Approach
Sep 07, 2023
Wendy Wood: It’s Time We Trained Students for Diverse Careers in Psychological Science
Aug 24, 2023
Best Of: Revisiting Episodes on the Myers-Briggs Test, the Grieving Brain, and More
Aug 10, 2023
Understanding Childhood Adversity Across Time and Cultures
Jul 27, 2023
Nobody’s Fool: How to Avoid Getting Taken In
Jul 13, 2023
Carl Hart on Clinicians’ Bias Toward Drug Use
Jun 29, 2023
Bringing Contexts In, Taking Racism Out: How to Improve Cognitive Psychology
Jun 15, 2023
Endless Love: You’ve Got Ideas About Consensual Nonmonogamy. They’re Probably Wrong
Jun 01, 2023
Psychology’s Role in the Criminalization of Blackness
May 18, 2023
Silver Linings in the Demographic Revolution
May 04, 2023
Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
Apr 20, 2023
Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children
Apr 06, 2023
Lived Experiences Can Be a Strength. So Why the Bias Against “Me-Search”?
Mar 23, 2023
Special Episode II: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Sharing Minds, the Development of Learning, and Implicit Bias
Mar 09, 2023
Special Episode I: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Fresh Starts, Time Perception, and the Well-being of Black Families
Mar 09, 2023
Is Cheating Just a Symptom (and Not the Cause) of Declining Relationships?
Feb 23, 2023
Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses
Feb 09, 2023
A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas
Jan 26, 2023
Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More
Jan 12, 2023
What You Know Changes What and How You See
Dec 15, 2022
Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence
Dec 01, 2022
Failure and Flourishing
Nov 17, 2022
Why Is Everyone Else Having More Fun?
Nov 10, 2022
How Do We Know Ourselves?
Nov 03, 2022
What Music Does to Us
Oct 27, 2022
Exploration and Risk-Taking: Hallmarks of Adolescence That Increase Well-Being
Oct 13, 2022
Talking With Birds: The Fascinating World of Avian Intelligence
Sep 29, 2022
The September Collection: New Technology Can Be Scary, Why to Stop Worrying and Love the Eco-Apocalypse, and Much More
Sep 22, 2022
Attitudes Improve for Sex and Race. Disability and Age? Not So Much
Sep 15, 2022
Self-Injury: Can the Internet Play a Positive Role?
Sep 08, 2022
Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children
Sep 01, 2022
Underweight and Overexposed: How Women’s Perceptions of Thinness Are Distorted
Aug 25, 2022
The August Collection: Attitude Changes, Cognition in Lemurs, and Much More
Aug 18, 2022
A Paradox in the Field: Mental-Health Disorders Among Psychologists
Aug 08, 2022
The July Collection: Five Research Briefs
Jul 20, 2022
The New Riddle of the Sphinx: Life History and Psychological Science
Jun 30, 2022
I Don’t Care If It’s Fake News, I Believe It
Jun 23, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Brian Anderson and Habit-Reinforcing Behavior
Jun 16, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Patricia Lockwood and the Foundations of Social Learning
Jun 08, 2022
Delusion and the Uses of Not Being Rational
May 03, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Neil Lewis Jr. on the Unequal Nature of Society
Apr 27, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Human to Nonhuman Interactions with Kai Chi (Sam) Yam
Apr 14, 2022
Traffic Stops and Race: Police Conduct May Bend to Local Biases
Mar 30, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Jason Okonofua and the Power of Empathy
Mar 29, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: Investigating Complex Brain Processes
Mar 22, 2022
2022 Spence Award Mini Episode: How People Manage Their Emotions
Mar 18, 2022
Mini Episode: How We Internalize Disorders
Mar 15, 2022
Constellations Across Cultures: How Our Visual Systems Pick Out Patterns in the Night Sky
Mar 09, 2022
Freedom vs Security: Can We Find the Right Balance?
Feb 23, 2022
Debunking Four Common Myths of Psychological Science
Feb 02, 2022