Stanford Psychology Podcast

• 162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all

  In today’s episode, Adani chats with Adam Benforado, a lawyer, writer, and professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. Adam’s research, teaching, and advocacy are focused on children’s rights and criminal justice, and he brings insights from the mind sciences—most notably cognitive psychology—to law and legal theory. In this conversation, Adam tells us about his latest book, A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All, laying out the multifaceted, complex context around children’s rights and parental authority in the U.S. Adam also shares how he first got to work on the issues he now champions and what his future vision is, for children and society more broadly.Adam’s website: https://www.adambenforado.com/Adam’s book, A Minor Revolution: https://www.adambenforado.com/a-minor-revolution Adam’s twitter: @Benforado Adam’s new organization, Minor Power: ​​https://www.minorpower.org/Adani’s website: https://www.adaniabutto.comAdani’s Bluesky: @adaniPodcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPod Podcast Substack Stanford Psychology Podcast - Newsletter for the official Stanford Psychology Podcast!Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]

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• 161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

  Su chats with Dr. Yuan Chang (YC) Leong. YC is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the director of Computational Affective and Social Neuroscience Lab, which is a part of the Department of Psychology, a member of the Institute of Mind and Biology and the Neuroscience Institute, and an affiliate of the Data Science Institute. His research explores the neural and computational mechanisms underlying how goals, beliefs, and emotions influence human cognition, with a focus on why people interpret and respond to identical situations in different ways. In today's episode, we discuss what’s on YC intellectual radar these days, alongside with his recent paper "Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching," in which they show that we can decode arousal with open movie fMRI datasets.YC’s paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40215238/ YC’s lab website: https://mcnlab.uchicago.edu/ YC’s personal website: https://ycleong.github.io/ Su’s Twitter @sudkrcSu’s Bluesky @sudkrc.bsky.social Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPodPodcast Bluesky @stanfordpsypod.bsky.socialPodcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]

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• 160 - Jennifer Hu: From Human Minds to Artificial Minds

  Su chats with Dr. Jennifer Hu. Jenn is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, directing the Group for Language and Intelligence. Her research examines the computational principles that underlie human language, and how language and cognition might be achieved by artificial models. In her work to answer these questions, she combines cognitive science and machine learning, with the dual goals of understanding the human mind and safely advancing artificial intelligence. We are discussing Jenn’s paper titled “Signatures of human-like processing in Transformer forward passes."Jenn’s paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14107 Jenn’s lab website: https://www.glintlab.org/ Jenn’s personal website: https://jennhu.github.io/ Su’s Twitter: https://x.com/sudkrc Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPodPodcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]

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• 159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

  Elizabeth chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi, a Machine Learning engineer on the Perception team at Zoox, and a recent alumni of our very own Stanford’s Department of Psychology, as a part of our new Psychologist in the Wild series. During her PhD, Dawn studied the functional organization of the human visual system, focusing on both the structural underpinnings and the overarching computational goals. In this episode, Dawn shares her scientific journey from PhD to industry, and how her PhD experience translates to her current role at Zoox. If you found this episode interesting at all, subscribe on our Substack and consider leaving us a good rating! It just takes a second but will allow us to reach more people and make them excited about psychology.Dawn’s website: https://www.dawnfinzi.com/Elizabeth’s: website: imelizabeth.github.ioElizabeth’s BlueSky: @imelizabeth.bsky.socialPodcast BlueSky @StanfordPsyPod.bsky.socialPodcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPodPodcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]

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• 158 - David Almeida: Can Stress Be Good For You?

  Jane chats with Dr. David Almeida, a  Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He is the Principal Investigator of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), the largest longitudinal diary study of daily experiences and health in the United States. Dr. Almeida’s work examines how daily experiences of stress are associated with health and well-being. In this episode, Jane and Dr. Almeida discuss the ways in which people experience and react to stress in their daily lives, who is most likely to experience and be reactive to stress, ways to manage stress, and even some unexpected upside of experiencing stress in daily life.If you found this episode interesting at all, subscribe on our Substack and consider leaving us a good rating! It just takes a second but will allow us to reach more people and make them excited about psychology.Some papers relevant to today’s discussion:  Changes in daily stress reactivity and changes in physical health across 18 years of adulthoodLongitudinal change in daily stress across 20 years of adulthood: Results from the National Study of Daily ExperiencesThe Mixed Benefits of a Stressor-Free Life Podcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPodPodcast SubstackLet us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) [email protected]

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