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042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
Scientists are using rubber hands and virtual reality to transfer people's minds into avatars designed to look like members of groups and subcultures…
11 years, 1 month ago
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
In this episode, two stories, one about a football game that split reality in two for the people who witnessed it, and another about what happened wh…
11 years, 1 month ago
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
How far back can we trace our irrational behaviors and cognitive biases? Evolutionarily speaking, why do we even do these things? Can we blame our fa…
11 years, 1 month ago
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
Is it possible to for different parts of your mind to learn how the world works at different rates? Is it possible that the unconscious part of you c…
11 years, 2 months ago
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
One salient trait can cause you to misjudge every other trait when evaluating a new hire, a love interest, a colleague, or even a potential purchase.…
11 years, 2 months ago
037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
What motivates you to keep going, to reach for your dreams, to persist and endure? Psychology has, over the last 40 years, learned a great deal about…
11 years, 3 months ago
036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you wer…
11 years, 3 months ago
035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Are you throwing good money after bad? Are you stuck in a job, a relationship, a degree, or some other situation that you know you should abandon but…
11 years, 4 months ago
034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy
Do you believe in magical amulets? Apparently, in 2011, enough people did to allow one company to earn $34 million making and selling them to profess…
11 years, 4 months ago
033 - Belief - Will Storr
Do you think that everything you believe is true? If not, then what are you wrong about? It is a difficult question to answer, and it leads to many o…
11 years, 5 months ago