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032 - Ego Depletion
Many see willpower as something you develop like a muscle, something you can strengthen through practice and mental exercise, but the latest research…
11 years, 5 months ago
031 - Extinction Burst
Why do you so often fail at removing bad habits from your life?
You try to diet, to exercise, to stop smoking, to stop staying up until 2 a.m. stuck i…
11 years, 6 months ago
030 - Practice - David Epstein
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…
11 years, 6 months ago
029 - Labels - Adam Alter
I did something this week that I’m sure many people secretly do every day. I stopped, talked to myself for a moment, and checked to see how much slac…
11 years, 7 months ago
028 - Crowds - Michael Bond
It is a human tendency that’s impossible not to notice during wars and revolutions – and a dangerous one to forget when resting between them.
In psy…
11 years, 7 months ago
027 - Science Communication - Joe Hanson
I recently collaborated with Joe Hanson of the YouTube channel It’s Okay to be Smart and helped him write an episode about pattern recognition. I tho…
11 years, 7 months ago
026 - Maslow's Hammer
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” You’ve heard the expression before. You’…
11 years, 8 months ago
025 - Enclothed Cognition - Hajo Adam
The clothes you wear have powers...over your mind. Your wardrobe doesn't just affect the way others see you, but it affects the way you see yourself.…
11 years, 8 months ago
024 - Sleep - Richard Wiseman
Why do we sleep and why do we dream? Despite the fact that every human being spends roughly 1/3 of his or her life asleep, science has yet to crack t…
11 years, 9 months ago
023 - Inbetweenisode 4 - The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
In the 1950s, in an effort to better understand group conflict, a team of psychologists nearly turned a summer camp into Lord of The Flies.
The stor…
11 years, 9 months ago