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144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)
In 2017, YANSS did three episodes about the backfire effect, and by far, those episodes were the most popular that year. Then, in 2018, part four was…
7 years, 2 months ago
143 - How to Talk to People About Things
In this episode, we sit down with negotiation expert Misha Glouberman who explains how to talk to people about things -- that is, how to avoid the pi…
7 years, 2 months ago
142 - Debate (rebroadcast)
In late 2014 and early 2015, the city of Starkville, Mississippi, passed an anti-discrimination measure that lead to a series of public debates about…
7 years, 3 months ago
141 - Not A Scientist
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dave Levitan, a science journalist with a new book titled: Not a Scientist: how poli…
7 years, 3 months ago
140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)
We've transferred our biases to artificial intelligence, and now those machine minds are creating the futures they predict. But there's a way to stop…
7 years, 3 months ago
139 - The Friendship Cure
On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life…
7 years, 4 months ago
138 - Evil
In this episode, we sit down with psychologist Julia Shaw, an expert in memory and criminal psychology, to discuss her new book - Evil. In the book, …
7 years, 4 months ago
137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)
One of the most effective ways to change people’s minds is to put your argument into a narrative format, a story, but not just any story. The most pe…
7 years, 5 months ago
136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change
In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we…
7 years, 5 months ago
135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)
In this episode, Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist at University College London, explains our' innate optimism bias.
When the b…
7 years, 6 months ago