You Are Not So Smart

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.

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 57m. Bisher sind 381 Folge(n) erschienen. Alle zwei Wochen gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 15 days 14 hours 29 minutes

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282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell


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281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin


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280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg


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 Times Bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His new book is Supercommunicators, a practical and approachable guide to what makes great conversations work...


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 February 5, 2024  1h14m
 
 

YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)


There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, most people people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people believe...


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 January 20, 2024  1h25m
 
 

278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat


On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon (among many other aspects of language) with Florence Hazrat, a scholar of punctuation, who, to my great surprise, informed that while a lot of language is the result of a slow evolution, a gradual ever-changing process, punctuation in the English language is often an exception to this – for instance, a single person invented the semicolon; they woke up and the semicolon didn’t exist, and...


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277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)


Temple Grandin didn’t develop speech until much later than most children, and she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.


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 December 25, 2023  47m
 
 

276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa


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275 - Blight - Emily Monosson


How likely is the fungal infection in The Last of Us? The one that takes over human brains and brings humanity to the brink of extinction, could that really happen? In this episode we sit down with Emily Monosson, an expert in deadly fungal infections, and discuss the handful we know of that are today causing catastrophic declines in wildlife, eradicating trees, destroying crops, and increasingly impacting humans...


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 December 11, 2023  47m
 
 

274 - Cascades - Greg Satell


In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book about cascades details how rapid, widespread change can sweep across large groups of people, and how understanding the psychological mechanisms at play in such moments can help anyone looking to create change in any institution prepare for the inevitable resistance they will face.


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