I swear I have listened to half a dozen of these episodes always hoping to get some actual tips. The last one I listened to was about having purpose. I was hoping to get some tips on how to find mine but nope, all I got was "Stanford University did a study showing how GREAT it is to have purpose." Fast forward ten minutes. "Some MORE benefits of purpose are....." fast forward again. "MORE benefits of....." i was done. What's the point?

I enjoy listening to this podcast. There are lots of great psychology topics.

pretty please do well, so I can justify my not performing well / working.

I love this podcast.. every time i listen I always feel good and I get motivated . Thank you Sanker

I love the content but the sound effects and music are so distracting I often do finish the episode.

Lame

Great podcast. Encouraged by efforts to understand children’s behavior, and the difference between supervised play and unsupervised play. I just wish I’d heard what happened to the fourth grader who couldn’t follow rules!

Hidden Brain is both interesting and useful. It offers a unique perspective on people, how they think, and their behavior that I've found to be helpful in my work, how I choose to live my life, and how I engage with other people.

I learn a lot when I listen to your podcast. Thank you for providing rational answers to questions I have about human behavior and psyche.

I was on my second week of not drinking and was in the middle of a craving when I saw this episode. I listened while doing chores. Completely got me over that particular craving and gave me a new perspective on why I drink at all. THANK YOU! Made it through my second weekend with alcohol!

Thank you for your choice of topics. This is one of my favorite podcasts. I always know I will be challenged or informed. Yesterday’s message “What is Normal?” was over the top excellent, so I needed to finally review the show. Thank you, Shankar! I’m 61 years old and still learning!

The podcast is great but aggressive ads are killing it. It is really ridiculous that not even paid version is free from these extremely obtrusive ads. Please fix it!

Shankar is such a great host and the guests are intellectually stimulating, from various backgrounds, who elucidate the subjects that are discussed. I feel I am always learning something! Never miss it!

The content is marvelous. The ads - 2-4 per episode- are maddening. I tried subscribing to get rid of the ads. Didn’t work. And, until I saw the opportunity to post here, I found no easy way to provide feedback.

This podcast has a unique feel. It’s like an video without the video!

Haha Shankar ur so dramatic all the time. <3

This podcast has helped me so much in my life! Every single episode has shone a light on things that I have never fully understood or thought about before. I love every single episode!

The latest episodes finally tipped it for me: interviewing an Israeli professor at the University of Haifa, a colonial institution, about listening, with no mention of the atrocities his government and nation are carrying out, is just cruel. Shankar even asked, “Guy, is there a moment when someone has come to you and you haven’t been able to listen?” and Guy responded by talking about his three daughters, and how, living with four women, of course he’s always hearing how he needs to listen better, ha ha. I kept waiting for some mention of the Palestinian people, even a passing reference. This show has always been liberal, meaning, invested in upholding the status quo but with a more humane color scheme. Finally, I can’t tolerate the apathy from a host I feel is probably genuinely kind. It’s hard to put one’s own living at risk, when speaking in favor of the Palestinian people carries such heavy penalties; I will just be spending my listening time elsewhere.

Some things you just don’t think about until you have to. Some things you don’t think about at all. Hidden Brain brings those things to you. Sometimes it’s heart wrenching, heart warming, or completely confounding, and it’s always worth the listen. I just listened to The Ventilator and I feel that I’m sobbing at the intersection of philosophy and storytelling. I am so deeply impacted by the ideas shared in this piece.

Hidden Brain is by far my favorite podcast. The host is so endearing, asks wonderful thought-provoking questions and chooses amazing topics and guests. I frequently share episodes with my kids and friends. Love this show!!

The insights I get from this show are priceless. I learn so much about myself and how I can improve. The empiric nature of most shows adds great perspective and credibility. I share and recommend shows routinely.

I give Shankar 10/10. But the latest episode hit me, I noted half these Psychiatrists are from Jewish and Israel background. With the current affairs of the world, it really makes me wonder on how the Jews who suffered so much through out history can inflict the same suffering and worse pain on the Palestinian people and get away with it. It makes a lot of sense. They truly mastered the Human thinking and divided the peoples thoughts on what is wrong and what is right to such an extent that anyone who says anything against or about them will be destroyed. You can make fun of everyone else and their cultural, political, and religious beliefs but not them. Truly disheartening that we the United States are at Israel’s mercy and not the other way around. That is because they have infiltrated the major influential circles since the dawn of time. Hats off to them, absolutely brilliant. I understand Democrats being fully supportive of Jews but not Republicans. I have keep reminding myself not to generalize Jews with Israel and Zionism. Gets harder. I’ve met Palestinians, who were the lucky ones that got away and left the war torn areas and what I noted is that some have brutish characteristics due to their experiences. Peace

The irony of interviewing an Israeli about listening is just too ridiculous.

Most every episode provides me with much food for thought. There’s also generally some moral or ethical dilemma that’s being explored which I love. The most recent episode “The Ventilator” is most compelling and has left me grappling with my own mortality. Thank you… and keep these quality podcasts coming.

I APPRECIATE HOW YOU WILL REPEAT THE STORY POINTS BACK WITH YOUR CLARIFICATION AND YOUR WISDOM AND INTELLECT WITH OUT SOUNT SNOOTY :)

Shankar’s interviews and guests bring amazing perspectives about human behavior, thought, and ethics. I listen for inspiration and wisdom.

Shankar, excellent work here. Your podcasts are consistently profound. Your interview with Jonathan Haidt was nothing short of amazing. Thank you for your great work… keep it up!

Subscribe and follow for sure.

The topics you guys cover are so captivating. I love this podcast. Keep up the good work! -Niles

Hidden Brain does such a great job moving the listener through stories and discussions about thought-provoking topics. If you are in a place where you’re challenging your own personal growth, trying to overcome interpersonal or cultural challenges, or just interested in science updates about how our brains work then this podcast is for you. The full hidden brain team does great work. This podcast continually helps me in overcoming life’s challenges through thought provoking discussions and encouraging logical decision making.

“If a societal moral system exists, it’s because it has helped people coexist” Yeah, right. Coexist. Or it has helped one group of people control and keep down another. If that’s how you define “coexist”. Traditionally most societal moral systems have built in systems for shaming , controlling and making property out of women. I guess that’s “coexisting.”

Shallow right wing apologists nonsense.

Captivating, engaging, and thought-provoking with a 5 star presentation/production. Shankar's voice and presentation alone make it worth it. Thank you!

Just a short note to tel you haw much I love your show!!!! Miriam, CA

It informs no add, but all episodes comes with ads

The personal, heartfelt stories are really good, the ego-thumping NPR studio interviews not so much (even if the person did win a Nobel prize). But generally, I find the messages kind of simplistic, even banal, meant for the most mainstream “thinker,” if you will. So many of these psychologists and professors received and spent who knows how much (taxpayer?) money to “prove” the most useless and meaningless conclusions (which, I assume, their profession requires them to do). But more so, while the results and themes of episodes are supposed to be “surprising,” in fact they’re so watered down and escape all nuance to the point that I find myself (yes, rationally) disagreeing with so much, or at least seeing numerous ways the outcomes in the end don’t really apply, once one steps out of the lab. I think Shanker does a wonderful job, but now I hope he devotes his talents to a different direction.

I love this podcast! There hasn’t been a single episode I’ve heard that I didn’t learn something new. Every episode is interesting and Shankar has almost become my friend along side me as I discover new things.

This is essentially a podcast that features self-serving pseudoscience about the brain to essentially make general ethical claims about how to live. The lack of substance in this show combined with the superficial references to “behavioral science” really make this show a product of our era. Imagine if phrenologists in the 19th century had a podcast and that would be this.

The host, and creator of the show always introduces you to a topic that will make you a more well-rounded person. Really good!

I love this podcast. It’s pure heaven for me. I can’t wait til Monday when the newest episode is released. So many interesting topics. I have yet to listen to an episode that I didn’t find very interesting. He’s an amazing podcaster. Hidden Brain genuinely makes my life better !

I have started listening to Hidden Brain recently and so impressed with Shankar and the guests on his show. I am now a subscriber! Quality program needs our support. To the listeners who want everything for FREE…

I have been a listener and monthly financial contributor to Hidden Brain for years and have considered it to be intelligent, well-researched, and for common good. However, I am appalled and revolted by the episode, “Are Your Memories Real?” wherein Shankar only interviews Elizabeth Loftus. We know it is true that aspects of memory are malleable, but this episode suggests false victimization/victim fabrication and provides NO COUNTER PERSPECTIVE on how trauma *that has actually occurred* works in the brain. It only points to how one can create memories of events or details that did not happen; it does nothing to share what research also shows about traumatic events that did happen. This is a major failure on the part of Hidden Brain and I don’t think the production team understands the damaging repercussions this can have on real victims’ lives. They should know better than to ignore nuance and complexity. I’m stunned, gravely disappointed, and canceling my longtime subscription.

Used to love this show but everything requires a subscription now so will no longer be listening.

I always enjoy, and benefit from, the tone and content offered up by the Hidden Brain podcast. I get glimmers of encouragement during these bleak and divisive times by episodes such as the recent “Win Hearts, Then Minds.” I felt challenged to pry loose from settled convictions about the oppositional “other” by seeing him/her/them as essentially human—even when our world views collide. Again, I highly recommend this little dose of weekly sanity.

The large majority of Black women do not suffer from the issues discussed on that episode bc we are trained and groomed to see the world and every interaction from another’s perspective to survive in our home, work and public spaces.

I have grown weary of the subscription model, which has only revealed the greed-driven underbelly of the podcast industry now. Having to subscribe to Hidden Brain to hear the episodes has led me to listen to other shows which don’t require payment. There are plenty of commercials on Hidden Brain to support the show along with contributions from listeners like me. (Well, former supporters, in my case.) As for the show itself, it is excellent and I love Shankar, so I highly recommend tuning in. Just be aware that you will be shut out from some of the shows unless you are willing to pay for it. I’m listening to Choiceology and other similar shows which don’t require me to pay. (I don’t subscribe to any network “Plus” channels either. It’s like tipping. Enough is enough.)

Favorite listen on the way to the pool. Bi am a swimmer like Shankar…

Evolution of man’s aggression and fear must NOT be blamed on nature. Your guest sad that for thousands of years people have been hunted by wolves. Absolutely wrong. There are very few tigers that hunt people, they are called “man eating” because they are very rare. This is just a massive reinforcement of a false mythology that drives destruction of nature. Disappointed. Women are deeply intuitively afraid of men. Because men predate women. Not because of nature.

please don’t use ai generated art for your title cards!! just leaving it a plain solid color would be better, it really degrades your brand image and reputation as creators.

“What we have in common,” is just another obviously biased perspective filled with fallacies. Coming from an independent, not a republican. It’s ridiculous.