The Nature & Nurture Podcast

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Discussing the interaction between Nature (our biology, genes, evolutionary past, and the laws of our universe) and Nurture (our social environments, culture, history, and upbringings), and how these forces impact our lives. New episodes every week with scientists, authors, and bright minds from a wide array of backgrounds. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNatureNurturePodcast

Episode Date
Nature & Nurture #139: Dr. Rob Chavez - Computational Neuroscience & Social Cognition
Apr 20, 2024
Nature & Nurture #138: Dr. Adriene Beltz - Hormones, Sex Differences, & Contraceptives
Apr 02, 2024
Nature & Nurture #137: Dr. Larry Young - Hormones & Sexual Behavior Across Species
Mar 22, 2024
Nature & Nurture #136: Dr. Steve Rathje - The Global Social Media Experiment
Mar 15, 2024
Nature & Nurture #135: Dr. Rob Henderson - Childhood Instability, Poverty, Education, & Resilience
Mar 02, 2024
Nature & Nurture #134: Dr. Sergio Pellis - The Neurobiology of Play
Feb 28, 2024
Nature & Nurture #133: Angel Millar - The Path of the Warrior-Mystic
Feb 21, 2024
Nature & Nurture #132: Dr. Daniel Quintana - Oxytocin & Sex Hormones
Feb 15, 2024
Nature & Nurture #131: Dr. Lee Cronin - Evolution, Entropy, & The Chemical Origins of Life
Feb 07, 2024
Nature & Nurture #130: Dr. Alex Byrne - There Is No Gender Without Sex
Feb 01, 2024
Nature & Nurture #129: Dr. Wolfram Schultz - All About Dopamine Neurons
Jan 24, 2024
Nature & Nurture #128: Dr. Camilla Nord - Neurotransmitters, Prediction Error, & Mental Health
Jan 17, 2024
Nature & Nurture #127. Dr. Rachel Marsh - Self-Regulation, Brain Development, & Anxiety
Dec 22, 2023
Nature & Nurture #126. Dr. Walter Veit - Animal Consciousness, Evolution, & Morality
Dec 15, 2023
Nature & Nurture #125: Dr. Ellen Langer - The Mother of Mindfulness
Dec 06, 2023
Nature & Nurture #124: Dr. Henning Tiemeier - Hormones, Brain Development, & Public Health
Nov 28, 2023
Nature & Nurture #123. Dr. Willem Frankenhuis - Development, Evolution, Ecology, & Adversity
Nov 18, 2023
Nature & Nurture #122: Dr. Lars Chittka - The Mind of a Bee
Nov 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #121: Dr. Jack Schultz - Cultural Anthropology, Religion, & Relativism
Oct 27, 2023
Nature & Nurture #120: Dr. Kevin Mitchell - Evolution, Entropy, Neurogenetics, & Free Will
Oct 18, 2023
Nature & Nurture #119: Dr. Edward Hagen - Evolutionary Anthropology, Sex Differences, & Drugs
Oct 14, 2023
Nature & Nurture #118: Dr. Jennifer Silvers - Brain Development, Puberty, & Emotion Regulation
Oct 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #117: Dr. Cory Clark - Meta-Science, Morality, and Psychological Bias
Sep 24, 2023
Nature & Nurture #116: Dr. James Roney - Sex Hormones, Motivation, & Evolution
Sep 11, 2023
Nature & Nurture #115: Dr. Joseph Henrich - Culture, Cognition, & Coevolution
Sep 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #114: Dr. Massimo Pigliucci - Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, & Skepticism
Aug 24, 2023
Nature & Nurture #113: Dr. Stephanie Bugden - Children's Math Learning & Education
Aug 18, 2023
Nature & Nurture #112: Kevin J. DeBruin - Rocket Science, Education, Fitness, & Perseverance
Aug 12, 2023
Nature & Nurture #111: Dr. Jonas Kaplan - The Neuroscience of Narrative
Aug 03, 2023
Nature & Nurture #110: Dr. Paul Bloom - Evolution, Language, & Morality
Jul 26, 2023
Nature & Nurture #109: Dr. Ben Smith - Decision Neuroscience & Effective Altruism
Jul 19, 2023
Nature & Nurture #108: Dr. Emily Jacobs - Sex Hormones & Brain Aging
Jul 12, 2023
Nature & Nurture #107: Dr. Judith Fan - Pictures, Numbers, & Cognitive Tools
Jul 05, 2023
Nature & Nurture #106: Dr. Roy Baumeister - Sex, Willpower, & The Self
Jun 28, 2023
Nature & Nurture #105: Dr. Lindsey Powell - Infant Social Neuroscience
Jun 21, 2023
Nature & Nurture #104: Dr. Colin DeYoung - Personality Neuroscience & Cybernetics
Jun 14, 2023
Nature & Nurture #103: Dr. Barry Giesbrecht - The Neuroscience of Attention
Jun 07, 2023
Nature & Nurture #102: Dr. Mahzarin Banaji - Myths & Facts About Implicit Bias
May 27, 2023
Nature & Nurture #101: Dr. John Delony - Neuropsychology, Storytelling, & Mental Health
May 17, 2023
Nature & Nurture #100: Dr. Leah Somerville - All About Adolescent Brain Development
May 15, 2023
Nature & Nurture #99: Dr. Karl Friston - Active Inference & Free Energy
Apr 24, 2023
Nature & Nurture #98: Dr. Lixing Sun - The Evolution of Lying
Apr 21, 2023
Nature & Nurture #97: Dr. Mark Moffett - Society from Ants to Humans
Apr 10, 2023
Nature & Nurture #96: Dr. Ovul Sezer - Comedy & Impression Management
Apr 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #95: Dr. Edouard Machery - Free Will, Value, & Decision Making
Mar 27, 2023
Nature & Nurture #94: Dr. Scott Grafton - The Neuroscience of Goal-Directed Movement
Mar 21, 2023
Nature & Nurture #93: Dr. Deon Benton - Is Learning Innate?
Mar 11, 2023
Nature & Nurture #92: Dr. Alan Fiske - Kama Muta: Being Moved by Love
Mar 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #91: Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam - The Evolution & Computations of Mating Psychology
Feb 25, 2023
Nature & Nurture #90: Dr. Rob Henderson - Luxury Beliefs & Status Signals
Feb 18, 2023
Nature & Nurture #89: Dr. C. Sue Carter - Sex, Love, & Oxytocin
Feb 13, 2023
Nature & Nurture #88: Dr. Adam Morris - Mindfulness & Decision Making
Feb 04, 2023
Nature & Nurture #87: Dr. Brynn Sherman - Sleep, Stress, & Memory
Jan 28, 2023
Nature & Nurture #86: Dr. Michael Levin - Animal Regeneration, Learning, & Memory
Jan 21, 2023
Nature & Nurture #85: Dr. Daniel Schacter - The Seven Sins of Memory
Jan 14, 2023
Nature & Nurture #84: Dr. Joshua Greene - Moral Psychology & Pragmatism
Jan 05, 2023
Nature & Nurture #83: Dr. Dorsa Amir - Child Development, Evolution, & Culture
Dec 22, 2022
Nature & Nurture #82: Dr. Anita Collins - The Music Advantage
Dec 09, 2022
Nature & Nurture #81: Dr. Samuel Gershman - What Makes Us Smart
Dec 03, 2022
Nature & Nurture #80: Dr. Frank von Hippel - The Chemical Age
Nov 16, 2022
Nature & Nurture #79: Dr. Robert Epstein - The Case Against Adolescence
Nov 09, 2022
Nature & Nurture #78: Dr. Jason Mitchell - The Neuroscience of Mindreading
Nov 02, 2022
Nature & Nurture #77: Dr. Bryce Huebner - Embodied, Micro, & Macrocognition
Oct 26, 2022
Nature & Nurture #76: Dr. Randolph Nesse - Good (Evolutionary) Reasons for Bad Feelings
Oct 12, 2022
Nature & Nurture #75: Dr. Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
Oct 05, 2022
Nature & Nurture #74: Dr. Ilan Dar-Nimrod - Genetic Essentialism & Existentialism
Sep 28, 2022
Nature & Nurture #73: Dr. Imac Zambrana - Language Development & Social Learning
Sep 21, 2022
Nature & Nurture #72: Dr. Valerie van Mulukom - Imagination, Memory, & Belief
Sep 14, 2022
Nature & Nurture #71: Dr. Anna Lembke - Pain, Pleasure, & Dopamine
Aug 31, 2022
Nature & Nurture #70: Dr. Alan Levinovitz - Nature, Goodness, & Uncertainty
Aug 24, 2022
Nature & Nurture #69: Dr. Frans de Waal - Sex & Gender in Primates
Aug 17, 2022
Nature & Nurture #68: Dr. Kim Meidenbauer - Environmental Neuroscience & Social Cognition
Aug 10, 2022
Nature & Nurture #67: Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar - The Science of Happiness
Aug 02, 2022
Nature & Nurture #66: Dr. Sofie Valk - Social Neuroscience & Genetics
Jul 27, 2022
Nature & Nurture #65: Dr. Courtney Hilton - Music & Cognition
Jul 20, 2022
Nature & Nurture #64: Dr. W. Keith Campbell - Narcissism, Ego, & The Hero’s Journey
Jul 13, 2022
Nature & Nurture #63: Dr. Mark Ho - Mental Representation & Problem Solving
Jul 07, 2022
Nature & Nurture #62: Dr. Isabelle Brocas - Neuroeconomics & Decision Making
Jun 29, 2022
Nature & Nurture #61: Dr. Andy Norman - Mental Immunity & Infectious Ideas
Jun 22, 2022
Nature & Nurture #60: Dr. Iris Berent - How We Reason About Human Nature
Jun 15, 2022
Nature & Nurture #59: Dr. Gary Laderman - Death, Spirituality, & Culture
Jun 10, 2022
Nature & Nurture #58: Dr. Fiery Cushman - Moral Psychology, Luck, & Punishment
Jun 01, 2022
Nature & Nurture #57: Dr. Erik Nook - How Language & Emotion Interact
May 25, 2022
Nature & Nurture #56: Dr. Christian Nawroth - Farm Animal Cognition & Animal Welfare
May 13, 2022
Nature & Nurture #55: Dr. Sami Yousif - Spatial Cognition & Teleological Belief
May 02, 2022
Nature & Nurture #54: Dr. Adam Green - The Neuroscience of Creativity, Belief, & Free Will
Apr 06, 2022
Nature & Nurture #53: Dr. Megan Peters - Perception, Metacognition, & Uncertainty
Mar 30, 2022
Nature & Nurture #52: Dr. Bill von Hippel - The Evolution of Social Intelligence
Mar 23, 2022
Nature & Nurture #51: Dr. Nilam Ram - The Human Screenome Project
Mar 16, 2022
Nature & Nurture #50: Dr. Abigail Marsh - The Neuroscience of Empathy & Altruism
Mar 02, 2022
Nature & Nurture #49: Dr. Glenn Fox - The Neuroscience of Leadership
Feb 23, 2022
Nature & Nurture #48: Dr. Aaron Sell - The Evolution of Anger
Feb 16, 2022
Nature & Nurture #47: Dr. Cedric Boeckx - The Neurobiology of Language
Feb 07, 2022
Nature & Nurture #46: Dr. Robert Barton - Primate Brain Evolution
Feb 03, 2022
Nature & Nurture #45: Dr. Edward Slingerland - The History of Alcohol
Jan 26, 2022
Nature & Nurture #44: Dr. Andrew Knoll - A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in One Hour
Jan 19, 2022
Nature & Nurture #43: Dr. Nicholas Christakis - Network Science & Public Health
Jan 12, 2022
Nature & Nurture #42: Dr. Mark Solms - The Neuropsychology of Dreams, Feeling, & Consciousness
Jan 05, 2022
Nature & Nurture #41: Dr. Jeremy DeSilva - First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Dec 29, 2021
Nature & Nurture #40: Dr. Randy Thornhill - Parasite-Stress Theory & The Evolution of Conservatism
Dec 22, 2021
Nature & Nurture #39: Dr. Beth Smith - Infant Neuromotor Development
Dec 18, 2021
Nature & Nurture #38: Dr. Katie Bottenhorn - Neuroinformatics & Women's Health
Dec 12, 2021
Nature & Nurture #37: Dr. Babak Hemmatian - Natural Language Processing & Political Discourse
Dec 08, 2021
Nature & Nurture #36: Dr. David Geary - The Evolution of Human Sex Differences
Dec 06, 2021
Nature & Nurture #35: Dr. Mark Schaller - The Behavioral Immune System
Dec 01, 2021
Nature & Nurture #34: Dr. Rosalind Arden - Intelligence in Humans & Dogs
Nov 25, 2021
Nature & Nurture #33: Dr. Arik Kershenbaum - The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy
Nov 17, 2021
Nature & Nurture #32: Dr. Julia Marshall - The Development of Cooperation
Nov 10, 2021
Nature & Nurture #31: Dr. Ryan Boyd - Natural Language Processing, Personality, & Behavior
Nov 07, 2021
Nature & Nurture #30: Dr. Danbee Kim - Field Neuroscience & Cuttlefish
Nov 03, 2021
Nature & Nurture #29: Dr. Brad Duchaine & Sarah Herald - Face Processing Disorders
Oct 30, 2021
Nature & Nurture #28: Dr. Manoj Doss - The Neuroscience of Episodic Memory & Psychedelics
Oct 27, 2021
Nature & Nurture #27: Dr. Kevin Mitchell - Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Oct 25, 2021
Nature & Nurture #26: Dr. Eric Schwitzgebel - Belief, Consciousness, & Crazyism
Oct 20, 2021
Nature & Nurture #25: Dr. David McKemy - The Neurobiology of Pain
Oct 13, 2021
Nature & Nurture #24: Dr. Tor Wager - Affective Neuroscience & Belief
Oct 06, 2021
Nature & Nurture #23: Dr. Edward Hagen - Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Medicine, & Leadership
Sep 29, 2021
Nature & Nurture #22: Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall - Social Neuroscience, Morality, & Altruism
Sep 22, 2021
Nature & Nurture #20: Dr. William Ngiam - Visual Working Memory & Open Science
Sep 08, 2021
Nature & Nurture #19: Dr. Richard Tremblay - The Development of Aggression
Sep 01, 2021
Nature & Nurture #18: Dr. Johnna Swartz - Adolescent Brain Development & Mental Health
Aug 25, 2021
Nature & Nurture #17: Dr. Michael Serra - Learning, Memory, & Metacognition
Aug 18, 2021
Nature & Nurture #16: Dr. Jakub Szymanik - Logic, Language, & Computation
Aug 11, 2021
Nature & Nurture #15: Dr. Katie Gordon - Clinical Psychology & Suicide Prevention
Aug 04, 2021
Nature & Nurture #14: Dr. Nadia Chernyak - How Children Quantify Fairness
Jul 28, 2021
Nature & Nurture #13: Dr. Felipe De Brigard - Imagination & Modal Cognition
Jul 22, 2021
Nature & Nurture #12: Dr. Essi Viding - Psychopathy & Antisocial Behavior
Jul 14, 2021
Nature & Nurture #11: Dr. Zlatan Damnjanovic - Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics
Jul 08, 2021
Nature & Nurture #10: Dr. Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez - Social Stratification & Environmental Neuroscience
Jun 28, 2021
Nature & Nurture #9: Dr. Mark Goulston - Surgical Empathy & The Importance of Listening
Jun 21, 2021
Nature & Nurture #8: Dr. Daniel Lapsley - Moral Psychology & Development
Jun 10, 2021
Nature & Nurture #7: Dr. Vera Gluscevic - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, & Cosmology
Jun 01, 2021
Nature & Nurture #6: Dr. Alex Bezzerides - Evolution Gone Wrong: Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
May 27, 2021
Nature & Nurture #5: Dr. Cecilia Heyes - Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
May 05, 2021
Nature & Nurture #4: Dr. Toby Mintz - Psycholinguistics & Early Language Development
Apr 29, 2021
Nature & Nurture #3: Dr. Frank Manis - Literacy Development & The Dynamic Child
Apr 23, 2021
Nature & Nurture #2: Dr. Megan Herting - Environmental Neuroscience & Brain Development
Apr 15, 2021
Nature & Nurture #1: Dr. Jonas Kaplan - Cognitive Neuroscience, Belief, & Consciousness
Apr 13, 2021