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130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast)
In medical school they tell you half of what you are about to learn won't be true when you graduate - they just don't know which half. In every field…
8 years, 4 months ago
129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
Confirmation bias is our tendency to seek evidence that supports our beliefs and confirms our assumptions when we could just as well seek disconfirma…
8 years, 4 months ago
128 - Happy Brain
What makes you happy? As in, what generates happiness inside the squishy bits that reside inside your skull? That's what author and neuroscientist De…
8 years, 4 months ago
127 - Selfie
In this episode, we sit down with author Will Storr to talk about his new book -- Selfie: How We Became so Self-Obsessed, and What it is Doing to Us.…
8 years, 5 months ago
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)
Despite their relative invisibility, a norm, even a dying one, can sometimes be harnessed and wielded like a weapon by conjuring up old fears from a …
8 years, 5 months ago
125 - Status Quo Rationalization
When faced with an inescapable and unwanted situation, we often rationalize our predicament so as to make it seem less awful and more bearable, but w…
8 years, 6 months ago
124 - Belief Change Blindness
When was the last time you changed your mind? Are you sure?
In this episode we explore new research that suggests for the majority of the mind change …
8 years, 6 months ago
123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)
Little did the champions of the Enlightenment know that once we had access to all the facts…well, reason and rationality wouldn’t just immediately wa…
8 years, 7 months ago
122 - Tribal Psychology
The evidence is clear that humans value being good members of their tribes much more than they value being correct. We will choose to be wrong if it …
8 years, 7 months ago
121 - Progress (rebroadcast)
Do we have the power to change the outcome of history? Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Are we headed somewhere definite, or is change just cha…
8 years, 8 months ago