Social Science Bites

David Edmonds

michael.todd@sagepub.com

For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.

Booking Overview

Social Science Bites offers bite-sized interviews with leading social scientists on how people think, judge, and process information. For PR teams, it’s a fast, credible platform to translate research into concrete insights—especially around psychology, cognition, and bias.

Metrics

Episodes: 120

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

michael.todd@sagepub.com

For verified host and producer emails, sign up to view.

Host

David Edmonds - The provided episode descriptions indicate David Edmonds serves as the interviewer for Social Science Bites, speaking with guests such as Mahzarin Banaji, Daniel Yon, and Tom Gilovich about their r...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established social scientists (often psychologists/neuroscientists) with academic leadership roles at major universities, notable research contributions, awards/honors, and/or well-known books bridging academia and the public.
Required Achievements:  
Major university professorships, Named research lab/director roles, Creation of widely used research tools/tests, Prestigious academic awards and fellowships, Authorship of influential books

Recent Guest Discussions

Mahzarin Banaji - AI And Bias; Implicit Bias; How Llms Mimic Or Amplify Human Bias.

Daniel Yon - Brain As A Scientist; How The Brain Builds Theories/models; Science And Interpretation.

Tom Gilovich - Judgment And Decision Making; Spotlight Effect; Illusion Of Transparency; Regret, Bias Blind Spots, And Social-psychological Research Findings.

Recent Topics

Psychology, Cognition, Behavioral Economics, Neuroscience, Bias

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Social Science Bites
:

Mahzarin Banaji on Social Cognition

July 01, 2026

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it will mimic, and perhaps even improve, on human thinking. One of those hoped-for improvements was that AI would not exhibit human biases. Turns out that in one area, AI can indeed mimic human thinking, and it's in that field of bias. As Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji -- one of the creators of the widely used implicit bias test -- explains in this Social Science Bites podcast, AI platforms both mimic human bias and even amplify it....

Daniel Yon on the Brain as Scientist

June 01, 2026

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice day or determining the meaning of chit-chat with a friend. Ferreting out the basis and structures of our brain's labor is the domain of Daniel Yon, a psychologist and neuroscientists and director of the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Yon - author of the 2025 book A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality...

Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect

May 04, 2026

Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by the world around them. And why not, he explains to interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. "We're dynamic, very complicated creatures who do all sorts of things and sometimes make you go, 'Huh?' That's interesting." He adds, "At the same time, some of the things that people do have great consequences," which means understanding how understandings c...

Get your clients booked on top podcasts

Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.

Start Your Free Trial

Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings