On Wisdom
On Wisdom features a social and cognitive scientist in Toronto and an educator in London discussing the latest empirical science regarding the nature of wisdom. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London, UK. The podcast thrives on a diet of freewheeling conversation on wisdom, decision-making, wellbeing, and society and includes regular guests spots with leading behavioral scientists from the field of wisdom research and beyond. Welcome to The On Wisdom Podcast.Podcasts
58: The Social Robots are Coming! (with Kerstin Dautenhahn)
Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds
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57: The Epic Challenge of Knowing Thyself (with David Dunning)
Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 2 seconds
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56: Awe Reloaded (with Dacher Keltner)
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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55: Wise of the Machines (with Sina Fazelpour)
Published: Aug. 5, 2023, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds
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54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )
Published: May 30, 2023, 6 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds
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53: Moral Reframing and The Science of Political Persuasion (with Robb Willer)
Published: April 10, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 36 seconds
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52: World Wide Wisdom (with Deepak Ramola)
Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 12 seconds
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51: Tricky Colleagues and Contagious Emotions (with Tessa West)
Published: Nov. 16, 2022, midnightDuration: 57 minutes 48 seconds
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50: Morality Meets World (with Joshua Greene)
Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 1:45 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 28 seconds
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49: Wise Goals (with Ayelet Fishbach)
Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds
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48: A Joyous Journey from Black-and-White to Grey (with Tom Gilovich)
Published: Aug. 1, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 26 seconds
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47: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum) - Rebroadcast
Published: July 20, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 2 seconds
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46: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt) - Rebroadcast
Published: June 27, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
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45: Wisdom at Work (with Barry Schwartz) - Rebroadcast
Published: June 7, 2022, 7 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 20 seconds
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44: A Special Announcement
Published: May 24, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
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43: Invisible to Ourselves: A Life of a Psychological Scientist (with Richard Nisbett)
Published: Dec. 4, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 16 seconds
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42: Reflections on Wisdom in the World after Covid
Published: Oct. 24, 2021, midnightDuration: 37 minutes 36 seconds
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41: Wisdom for Negative Consequences (Pt. I) - Social Support, Sympathy & Compassion, Acknowledging Uncertainty, and Balancing Diverse Interests
Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds
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40: World After Covid series: Negative Consequences (Part II) - Autobiographical Memory, Estrangement, Political Conflict, and Prejudice
Published: Aug. 4, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 14 seconds
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39: World After Covid series: Negative Consequences (Part I) - Social Inequality, Loneliness, Economic Hardships, and Despair
Published: July 11, 2021, noonDuration: 30 minutes 30 seconds
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38: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. II) - Critical Thinking, Intellectual Humility, Political Cooperation, and Solidarity
Published: June 30, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 12 seconds
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37: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. I) - Sympathy and Compassion, Self-distancing, Perspective-taking, and Learning from pandemics
Published: June 3, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds
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36: World After Covid series: Positive Consequences (Part II) - Political cooperation, Nature, Solidarity, and Prosocial behaviours
Published: April 13, 2021, 8 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes
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35: World After Covid series: Positive Consequences (Part I) - Political and structural change, Care for elders, Social connectedness, and Reconsidering habits
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds
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34: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Now (Part II) - What's important, Living in the moment, Social connectedness, and Shared humanity
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, midnightDuration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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33: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Now (Part I)
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 18 seconds
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32: Shifting Gears: Wisdom in the 'World After Covid'
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 3 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
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31: The Meaning of Wisdom Before and During the Pandemic (with Ricca Edmondson)
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 51 seconds
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30: Emotions, Attention, and Decision Making in the Aging Brain (with Mara Mather)
Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 41 seconds
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29: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum)
Published: June 21, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
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28: Pandemic Happiness (with Sonja Lyubomirsky)
Published: April 24, 2020, midnightDuration: 31 minutes 55 seconds
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27: The Wisdom of a Modern Elder (with Chip Conley)
Published: April 6, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds
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26: Wicked Problems (with Judith Glück)
Published: March 5, 2020, 8 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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25: 'This is Basically a Revolution': Self-Knowledge and The Battle for Better Science (with Simine Vazire)
Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 1 second
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24: Misbehavioral Economics: Choosing irrationality
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes
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23: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt)
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 38 seconds
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22: The Epistemic Tightrope: Walking The Line of Doubt (with Scott Lilienfeld)
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 46 seconds
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21: The Art and Science of Knowing You Don't Know (with Mark Alfano)
Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 32 seconds
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Episode 20: The Science of Awe (with Dacher Keltner)
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds
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Episode 19: The Individual and The Culture (with Adam Grant)
Published: July 30, 2019, 11 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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Episode 18: The End of the World is Nigh: Polarised Tribes, Passionate Words, and the Partisan Brain (with Jay Van Bavel)
Published: June 29, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 58 seconds
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Episode 17: The Metaphysics of Email and The Perils of Productivity (with Oliver Burkeman)
Published: May 28, 2019, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 34 seconds
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Episode 16: Beware the Intelligence Trap! (with David Robson)
Published: April 28, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 26 seconds
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Episode 15: Wisdom, Bullshit & Beliefs (with Gordon Pennycook)
Published: April 7, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 7 seconds
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Episode 14: Wisdom & Social Norms (with Michele Gelfand)
Published: March 13, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 2 seconds
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Episode 13: Can Wisdom be Taught?
Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 11 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds
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Episode 12: Social and Emotional Aging (with Laura Carstensen)
Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 seconds
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Episode 11: Wisdom at Work (with Barry Schwartz)
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 40 seconds
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Episode 10: Wise Bodies, Wise Brains (with Wendy Berry Mendes)
Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds
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Episode 9: Dangerous Reflections (with Valerie Tiberius)
Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 11 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds
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Episode 8: The Dark Side (with Paul Bloom)
Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 40 seconds
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Episode 7: Why We Tell Stories (with Nic Weststrate)
Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 10 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds
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Episode 6: Wisdom, Class & Inequality (with Michael Kraus)
Published: July 16, 2018, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds
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Episode 5: The Foolish Sage (with Eranda Jayawickreme)
Published: June 24, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 50 seconds
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Episode 4: Yoda vs Spock (with Stéphane Côté)
Published: May 11, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds
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Episode 3: On Death (with Laura Blackie)
Published: April 25, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 40 seconds
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Episode 2: The Paradox of Ageing
Published: April 22, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 20 seconds
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Episode 1: Wisdom vs Intelligence
Published: April 20, 2018, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 16 seconds
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