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309 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell (rebroadcast)
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The p…
1 year, 1 month ago
308 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tomp…
1 year, 2 months ago
307 - Concordance Over Truth Bias
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susce…
1 year, 2 months ago
306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast)
This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with very practical advice on how to have productive con…
1 year, 3 months ago
305 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg (rebroadcast)
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine who is also the New York Time…
1 year, 3 months ago
304 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris (rebroadcast)
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Dan…
1 year, 4 months ago
303 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
In this episode we return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an e…
1 year, 4 months ago
302 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger
In this episode we sit down with Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question – and a man who has made a career out of classifying, categor…
1 year, 5 months ago
301 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two
In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavio…
1 year, 5 months ago
300 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One
In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult that predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that da…
1 year, 6 months ago