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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 15 days 17 hours 10 minutes
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062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross
In psychology, they call it naive realism, the tendency to believe that the other side is wrong simply because they are misinformed. According to Lee Ross, co-author of the new book, The Wisest One in the Room, naive realism has three tenets. One,...
061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage. Just as you can change your body at the atomic level by lifting weights, you can willfully alter your brain by...thinking in a certain way. In this episode we explore using your brain to...
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (rebroadcast)
Is all this new technology improving our thinking or dampening it? Are all these new communication tools turning us into navel-gazing human/brand hybrids, or are we developing a new set of senses that allow us to benefit from never severing contact...
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
Reframing is one of those tools that emerged from psychology that just plain works...it’s practical, simple, and with practice and repetition leads to real change in people with a variety of problems. It works because we rarely question our own...
059 - The Illusion of Control - Michael and Sarah Bennett
Just how much control do you really have over your life, relationships, happiness, and the events around the world? Well, much less than we would like to admit. Yet, time and again, we see in psychology, that in situations in which the outcomes are...
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
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