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Shankar Vedantam Probes The "Hidden Brain"

Shankar Vedantam
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Shankar Vedantam

For the past eight years, Shankar Vedantam of NPR has been giving WAMC listeners regular updates on social science research and what it tells us about human behavior. Frequently heard on “Morning Edition,” Vedantam is marking four years of the “Hidden Brain” podcast, where he explains the unconscious patterns driving our choices.

Recently, Vedantam has reported on everything from cycles of outrage in our politics to what monkey behavior can teach us about people.

News Director, ipick@wamc.org
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