259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)
How to manage procrastination according to Margaret Atwood, how to work around your first-instinct fallacy, the upsides of imposter syndrome, the best...
You Are Not So Smart
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You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.
258 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real ph...
257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
Is a hotdog a sandwich?Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive scie...
256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
This is the third episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have bett...
255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo
This is the second episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have bet...
254 - I Never Thought of It That Way - Mónica Guzmán
This is the first episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have bett...
253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician and infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the...
252 - Procrastination - Britt Frank
It’s February. It’s that time of year when we start to wonder if we might not follow through with our New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of the ye...
251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg
Nick Sonnenberg doesn’t believe there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. That’s because when his business was in crisis mode,...
250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to hel...