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114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? How do you persuade the people on the other side to…
8 years, 3 months ago
113 - Narrative Persuasion
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, 4 months ago
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
For computer scientist Chenhao Tan and his team, the internet community called Change My View offered something amazing, a ready-made natural experim…
8 years, 4 months ago
111 - Collective Intelligence
If you wanted to build a team in such a way that you maximized its overall intelligence, how would you do it? Would you stack it with high-IQ brainia…
8 years, 5 months ago
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
If you could compare the person you were before you became sleep deprived to the person after, you’d find you’ve definitely become...lesser than.
Whe…
8 years, 5 months ago
109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)
What effect does Google have on your brain? Here's an even weirder question: what effect does knowing that you have access to Google have on your bra…
8 years, 6 months ago
108 - Pandora's Lab
The facts don't speak for themselves. Someone always speaks for them.
From the opioid crisis to the widespread use of lobotomies to quiet problem pat…
8 years, 6 months ago
107 - Debate
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…
8 years, 7 months ago
106 - The Climate Paradox (rebroadcast)
In this episode, psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discusses his book: What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming.
Stoknes has dev…
8 years, 7 months ago
105 - Optimism Bias
In this episode, Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist at University College London, explains our' innate optimism bias.
When the …
8 years, 7 months ago