Tara Boyle
Tara Boyle is the supervising producer of NPR's Hidden Brain. In this role, Boyle oversees the production of both the Hidden Brain radio show and podcast, providing editorial guidance and support to host Shankar Vedantam and the shows' producers. Boyle also coordinates Shankar's Hidden Brain segments on Morning Edition and other NPR shows, and oversees collaborations with partners both internal and external to NPR. Previously, Boyle spent a decade at WAMU, the NPR station in Washington, D.C. She has reported for The Boston Globe, and began her career in public radio at WBUR in Boston.
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We all know the downsides of being poor. But what about the downsides of being rich? This week, we explore the psychology of scarcity...and excess. -
This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we explore why people often avoid telling the truth — to others, and to themselves. -
This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we explore how the constantly evolving nature of languages can give us different ways of understanding ourselves as well as the world we live in. -
Fresh StartsUnpredictable things happen to us all the time. On this week's radio episode, we bring you two stories of loss and the change it brings. -
Fake news in the U.S. is as old as American journalism itself. We explore the trade-offs journalists have long faced between elitism and populism, and integrity and profit. -
As many as 40 percent of students who intend to go to college don't show up in the fall. Education researchers call this phenomenon "summer melt," and it has long been a puzzling problem. -
So often we get stuck in the past, rehashing what we should have done, and what we no longer have. But researchers say our obsession with the past can tell us something important about our future. -
Food fills many of our needs. Hunger is just one. Paul Rozin explains the profound role that food plays in our lives. -
There can be a lot of psychological noise involved in learning. And mental chit chat can make learning hard. One solution, silence it with a click. -
Chaos is a part of all of our lives. Sometimes we try to control it. And other times, we just have to live with it.
