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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, 11 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…
8 years 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, …
8 years 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…
8 years 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month ago
134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model
In this episode we sit down with psychology legend Richard Petty to discuss the Elaboration Likelihood Model, a theory he developed with psychologist…
8 years, 2 months ago
133 - Uncivil Agreement
In this episode, we welcome Lilliana Mason on the program to discuss her new book, Uncivil Agreement, which focuses on the idea: “Our conflicts are o…
8 years, 2 months ago
132 - Practice (rebroadcast)
Is it true that all it takes to be an expert is 10,000 hours of practice? What about professional athletes? Do different people get more out of pract…
8 years, 3 months ago
131 - The Marshmallow Replication
The marshmallow test is one of the most well-known studies in all of psychology, but a new replication suggests we've been learning the wrong lesson …
8 years, 3 months ago