The Psychology Podcast

Scott Barry Kaufman ran The Psychology Podcast for 11 years before wrapping it up in December 2025, and those 478 episodes form one of the richest archives of conversations about human potential available anywhere. Kaufman is a cognitive scientist and author who studies creativity, intelligence, and what Abraham Maslow called self-actualization, and he brought that lens to every interview. His guests included neuroscientists, personality researchers, positive psychologists, and writers, and the conversations typically ran 45 to 70 minutes with genuine intellectual depth. Kaufman had a knack for finding the practical implications buried inside dense research papers and pulling them out in a way that felt accessible. The show holds a 4.4-star rating from over 1,700 reviews. Even though it has concluded, the back catalog is a treasure. Episodes on topics like the science of awe, the role of daydreaming in creativity, or what makes someone psychologically healthy age remarkably well because the underlying research does not expire quickly. If you want to understand the mechanics of your own mind from a scientific perspective, start at the beginning and work forward. The final episode brought back his very first guest from 2014, which gives the whole series a satisfying arc.