Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Personality science

Air Date:
Heard On Central Time
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard as people try to leave at the Kyiv train station
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard as people try to leave at the Kyiv train station, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

We check in with a Wisconsin professor on the ground in Poland working with Ukrainian refugees. Then, a journalist shares her research and exploration into personalties and whether we can change them.

Featured in this Show

  • The Ukrainian refugee crisis, live from Krakow

    Millions of Ukrainians have left their country since Russia’s invasion last month. A historian who is taking part in helping Ukranian refugees joins us from Krakow, Poland to share what he’s seeing on the ground.

  • The science of personality and one journalist's experiment to see if she could change hers

    We all have things we love about ourselves, and things that, well, not so much. We talk to a journalist with The Atlantic about her recent piece on the science of personality, and her three-month experiment to see if she could change her own.

Episode Credits

  • Rob Ferrett Host
  • Lee Rayburn Technical Director
  • Colleen Leahy Producer
  • Rachael Vasquez Producer
  • Andrey Ivanov Guest
  • Olga Khazan Guest