Shankar Vedantam is a science correspondent for NPR. The focus of his reporting is on human behavior and how social science research can prompt listeners to think about the news in unusual and interesting ways. Before joining NPR in 2011, Vedantam spent ten years as a reporter at The Washington Post. Between 2007 and 2009, he wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post. Vedantam is also the author of The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, a 2010 book about unconscious biases in everyday life.