The Psychology Podcast

We picked The Psychology Podcast because host Scott Barry Kaufman treats research as a starting point, not a conclusion. Where other shows in this space stay at the level of textbook definitions, Kaufman presses guests on the gaps—why openness to experience resists intervention, why somatic breathing can outperform gold-standard cognitive therapies for trauma. The conversations run long and get personal. Kaufman will name his own shifts in agreeableness or his past anxiety, using self-disclosure to unlock a guest's clinical findings rather than to center himself. The result is a feed that treats psychology as an evolving, sometimes contradictory discipline still working out its edges, not a self-help dispenser.