Social Science Bites

About Social Science Bites

Bite-sized interviews with top social scientists

Publisher

SAGE Publishing

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Feb 2014

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 148 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Rafael Schacter on Graffiti

   Anthropologist Rafael Schacter discusses graffiti as a legitimate art form with interviewer David Edmonds, revealing its rich history and cultural significance.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Alex Edmans on Market Irrationality

   elief in 'markets' among the financial elite at time can at time border on the theological, with approaches like the efficient market hypothesis or the invisible hand cited, unironically, as dogmas. But finance professor Alex Edmans of the London Business School would like to have a quiet word with Mr. Market; Edmans would like to tell him that he's a bit, well, irrational. That's not the dig it might appear in normal discourse. As Edmans explains to interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, the dominant idea in economics was that financial markets were rational, that they already knew everything and trying to outsmart them was generally foolish. By calling markets irrational, Edmans is saying they are inefficient. In short, they don't know everything. And that opens up many doors for enterprising investors, as he datils in his latest book, Madness of Markets: Why Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions – And How To Exploit Them. Edmans started his career as a banker and trader for Morgan Stanley before joining the faculty at the Wharton Business School two decades ago. He moved to London Business School in 2013. Among his many honors and affiliations (including his first stint on Bites in 2024) he is president of the Western Finance Association; a fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Financial Management Association. He also serves as a non-executive director for Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and Royal London Asset Management.

3. 

   3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ariel Kalil on Parents' Role in Child Development

   Developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil explains to interviewer David Edmonds how parents' out-of-school time significantly shapes child development more than school.

Inside a recent episode

Rafael Schacter on Graffiti

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That doesn't mean there is no graffiti within rural areas, but it's a different kind of practice with a different kind of viewership. You mentioned that it started in the US, and... It's traveled. Are there many cities untouched by this graffiti revolution? I mean, not many that I have been to, to be honest. I really, really do think that people have not understood how incredible it is, how far graffiti has traveled. It still blows my mind today. This is an art form that was started by a group of kids in New York broadly. kids who were just going out and playing, messing around and that moved in quite an incredibly short period of time to develop into a really highly developed complex art form and then move from that into an international framework which no one at the time would have believed. […]

Who has been a guest on Social Science Bites

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rafael Schacter
• Ariel Kalil
• Mahzarin Banaji
• Daniel Yon
• Ramanan Laxminarayan

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

90 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

70 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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Quality

62

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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