Vedantam in 2016OccupationJournalistShankar Vedantam is an American journalist, writer, and science correspondent for. His reporting focuses on human behavior and the social sciences. Contents.EducationVedantam earned an undergraduate degree in in India, and a master's degree in at in the United States. Journalistic careerVedantam uses journalism and research to inform the public on social science issues.

Currently, social science research is being discussed in a high level. Vedantam's conducts his research in a unique way to ensure the public can articulate his work.Vedantam was a participant in the 2002-2003 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the 2003-2004 World Health Organization Journalism Fellowship, and the 2005 Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship on Science and Religion.

Shankar Vedantam is a reporter with National Public Radio. In 2009-2010, he was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. Between 2006 and 2009, he wrote the popular Department of Human Behavior.

He was a 2009-2010. He worked at from 2001 to 2011, writing its 'Department of Human Behavior' column from 2007 to 2009. He then wrote an occasional column called 'Hidden Brain' for. Vedantam published The Ghosts of Kashmir, in 2005. The collection of short stories discusses the divide between Indians and Pakistani.In 2010, Vedantam published the book entitled The Hidden Brain.

The Edward R. Murrow Award winner focuses on how people become influenced by their unconscious biases. The book incorporates his experiences working as a reporter at the Washington Post. The novel showcases a range of real life examples on how their biases affect their mental health. Including, nine chapters discussing situations that affect our unconscious biases.He joined NPR in 2011. Since September 2015, he has hosted the NPR social sciences podcast Hidden Brain, where he 'reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships.' The podcast has engaged, per week, more than two million downloads.

The podcast aired on 250 radio stations within the United States.He has lectured at Harvard University and Columbia University, served on the advisory board of the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships in Science & Religion, and been a senior scholar at the in Washington. Literary careerVedantam has written plays, fiction and nonfiction.

His comedy Tom, Dick and Harriet was produced by the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia in 2004, and his collection of short stories, The Ghosts of Kashmir, was published in 2005. His nonfiction book, The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, was published in 2010. Works. The Ghosts of Kashmir, Tara Press, 2005,. The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.

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Jon Palfreman is a reporter, writer, producer, director and educator best known for his documentary work on Frontline and Nova. He has won awards for his journalism, including the Peabody Award, Emmy Award, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, Writers Guild of America Award, and the AAAS-Westinghouse Science in Journalisim Award. Palfreman has written, directed and produced documentaries on a wide range of topics, but specializes in topical and often controversial issues involving science and medicine. Palfreman is the author of Brainstorms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease, The Case of the Frozen Addicts: Working at the Edge of the Mysteries of the Human Brain, and The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age. He is also president of the Palfreman Film Group. Rose Eveleth is an American podcast host, producer, designer, and animator.

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Most of us would agree that theres a clear and even obvious connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations were not even aware of?The hidden brain is Shankar Vedantams shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional responses, and cognitive processes Most of us would agree that there’s a clear and even obvious connection between the things we believe and the way we behave.

But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations we’re not even aware of?The “hidden brain” is Shankar Vedantam’s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional responses, and cognitive processes that happen outside our conscious awareness but have a decisive effect on how we behave. The hidden brain has its finger on the scale when we make all our most complex and important decisions: It decides whom we fall in love with, whether we should convict someone of murder, and which way to run when someone yells “Fire!” It explains why we can become riveted by the story of a single puppy adrift on the ocean but are quickly bored by a story of genocide. The hidden brain can also be deliberately manipulated to convince people to vote against their own interests, or even become suicide terrorists. But the most disturbing thing is that it does all this without our knowing.Shankar Vedantam, author of The Washington Post’s popular “Department of Human Behavior” column, takes us on a tour of this phenomenon and explores its consequences. Using original reporting that combines the latest scientific research with compulsively readable narratives that take readers from the American campaign trail to terrorist indoctrination camps, from the World Trade Center on 9/11 to, yes, a puppy adrift on the Pacific Ocean, Vedantam illuminates the dark recesses of our minds while making an original argument about how we can compensate for our blind spots and what happens when we don’t.