Everything's Psychology

Everything's Psychology

Paul Davies

Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Highly Active
Since May 2025
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Chatting with incredible minds about the psychology of our everyday world. 


Join Paul Davies, behavioural psychologist, as chats with guests about the mechanisms of human behaviour and the motivations behind people’s actions.

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S1E31 The Psychology of Habits (Archive Episode)

Mar 03, 2026 1h 21m

Do habits really take 66 days to form? Should you rely on willpower? How does a psychologist approach overcoming their own bad habits and starting good ones?Professor Ben Gardner leads me through the…

S1E30 The Psychology of Search Engines (Archive Episode)

Feb 17, 2026 1h 21m

Going back to the very first episode of Everything's Psychology, where I talk with Professor Robert Epstein about the psychological techniques Google employs in its search engine. Are you being…

S1E29 Bias: Present Bias

Feb 03, 2026 38m

My final short story on behavioural biases. This week, the story focuses on the power of today over tomorrow by looking at present bias.Present bias describes our tendency to give greater weight to…

S1E28 Bias: Revenge

Jan 20, 2026 1h 6m Bonus

Another short story involving a behavioural bias. This week, the bias is revenge.Maybe not considered by behavioural scientists as one of the core cohort of behavioural biases, revenge certainly fits…

S1E27 Sticking to New Year's Resolutions

Jan 06, 2026 21m Bonus

Happy New Year! Have you set yourself a resolution? If so, in this episode, I share how a behaviourist psychologist would approach sticking to them and sailing past Quitters Day on January 17th.The…

S1E26 Bias: Choice Overload

Dec 23, 2025 44m Bonus

Something different for Christmas. I share a short story based on a behavioural bias.This week, the story is called Spaghetti Sauce and is about choice overload. Choice is a paradox. We convince…

S1E25 The Psychology of Time

Dec 09, 2025 44m

In this episode of Everything’s Psychology, I sit down with Richard D. Gross, author of The Psychology of Time, to unpack how our minds construct the very thing we live inside of: time. From internal…

S1E24 The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Nov 25, 2025 56m

Was the moon landing mankind’s giant leap, or was it Hollywood's greatest special effect? Was the global vaccine rollout an elaborate scheme by Bill Gates to implant microchips in all of us? And do…

S1E23 The Psychology of Sport

Nov 11, 2025 58m

What makes a great athlete? Why do some sports professionals rise to the occasion, while others crumble under pressure? Do the lessons from sports transfer to other areas of our lives, such as…

S1E22 The Psychology of Podcasts

Oct 28, 2025 50m

Why do people start a podcast? I chat with host of the Growth Mindset Psychology podcast, Sam Webster Harris, about his motivations for launching a podcast and why, after 500+ episodes, he's still…

S1E21 Psychbite: Celebrity Traitors

Oct 21, 2025 35m

What psychology have we seen in the first four episodes of the Celebrity Traitors? Were we right in our predictions? Now that we've seen how the celebs are playing the game, who do I think will make…

S1E20 The Psychology of The Traitors

Oct 14, 2025 1h 6m

With the celebrity version of The Traitors UK starting on October 8th, I talk with three psychologists from Chester University about the psychology used in the show as a whole, how contestants have…

S1E19 PsychBite: OnlyFans Influence on Teens

Oct 07, 2025 13m

In this episode, I expand on last week's interview with the details of a 2025 research paper that examined the influence of erotic content platforms, such as OnlyFans, on teenagers.You can read the…

S1E18 The Psychology of OnlyFans

Sep 30, 2025 49m

Valued this year at $8 billion, OnlyFans is the video hosting site generating significant media interest, with celebrities using it to support their other work.I chat with Dr Anna Kelberg about why…

S1E17 Psychbite: Motivating people to invest

Sep 23, 2025 24m

I share my framework to help companies struggling to persuade their customers to make decisions that will make them better off. I share how mapping customer communications to a psychological model…

S1E16 The Psychology of Investing

Sep 16, 2025 1h 11m

In this episode, I explore the intricate relationship between psychology and investing with Dr. Daniel Crosby. We discuss how behavioural biases impact investment decisions, the importance of…

S1E15 Psychbite: What's been the most popular episode so far?

Sep 09, 2025 18m

In this shorter episode, I share a few more ideas from psychology that relate to last week's topic of sexual violence. I also give an update on which episodes have proven to be the most popular to…

S1E14 The Psychology of Sexual Violence

Sep 02, 2025 57m

In this episode, we dip our psychological toes into the world of sociology and gender studies by chatting with Professor Alison Phipps (Newcastle University) about sexual violence.It's certainly a…

S1E13 Psychbite: Let there be blood

Aug 26, 2025 18m

In this shorter episode, I discuss my interview with David Cohen on the psychology of vampires and delve a little deeper into the groups of people who identify themselves as real-life vampires or…

S1E12 The Psychology of Vampires

Aug 19, 2025 31m

Why are we so obsessed with vampires?In this episode, I'm joined by psychologist and author David Cohen. We chat about his book The Psychology of Vampires (Routledge, 2019) and David unpacks what…

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Everything's Psychology has published 32 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Science, Social Sciences.

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Everything's Psychology is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 50m.

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