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  • Leor Zmigrod

    Leor Zmigrod
    2025/09/12
    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to political psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Leor Zmigrod about how neuroscience can shed light on our beliefs and the extremes we sometimes cling to. Leor believes that ideologies restrict our capacity to be free but Paul is not so sure.

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    28 分
  • Sami Timimi

    Sami Timimi
    2025/09/05
    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to Sami Tamimi, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. They discuss Sami’s childhood in Iraq, explore the complexities of mental health diagnoses, and whether mental health has been commodified.

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    29 分
  • Dan Ariely

    Dan Ariely
    2025/08/29
    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to Professor Dan Ariely from Duke University. Dan explains how his recovery from serious burns informed his research into pain management. They discuss what it means to live fully even in the face of terminal illness and disagree about the importance of legacy.

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    28 分
  • Anneliese Dodds

    Anneliese Dodds
    2025/08/22
    Professor Paul Dolan opens season four of Breaking Beliefism by talking to Anneliese Dodds, Labour MP for Oxford East and a former Government minister. They discuss the importance of nuanced political discourse versus performative politics, and consider why wellbeing isn’t taken more seriously by policymakers.

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    29 分
  • Season 3 finale

    Season 3 finale
    2025/07/18
    Looking back on season 3, where I spoke to scientists, academics, journalists, and a comedian. We discussed themes such as the shifting political landscape among young people, the decline of democracy, the significance of narratives, and why we hate the narrative of randomness so much.

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    4 分
  • Paul Sagar

    Paul Sagar
    2025/07/11

    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to Dr. Paul Sagar, a Reader in Political Theory at King's College London. The two Pauls discuss philosophy and, in the context of Dr Sagar's tetraplegia from a climbing accident, why we don't like "shit happens" as an explanation.


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    30 分
  • Tali Sharot

    Tali Sharot
    2025/07/04

    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to neuroscientist Professor Tali Sharot to explore beliefs, emotions, and decision-making. They discuss why changing our habits could help us appreciate the small things more, and why lying becomes easier the more we do it.


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    29 分
  • Adam Kucharski

    Adam Kucharski
    2025/06/27
    In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to Professor Adam Kucharski, a mathematician and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. They discuss how data can be used to understand epidemics, why evidence isn’t enough to persuade others, and how poker is the perfect gateway to maths.

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    29 分