You Are Not So Smart
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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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324 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One (rebroadcast)
In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult who predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that date...
323 - Common Knowledge - Steven Pinker
Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your current work makes you feel? Do you know why?
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322 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter
Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We expl...
321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast)
This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she...
320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani
What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious i...
319 - Love Factually - Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick
Two psychologists who study love, relationships, and human mating behavior pick apart the movie "The Notebook" and tell us what it gets right and what...
318 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you ver...
317 - Don't Talk About Politics - Sarah Stein Lubrano
Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it co...
316 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy (rebroadcast)
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us how to create institutions, businesses, and other g...
315 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School, tells us how to avoid the Ladder of Misinference by examining how narratives, statistic...
314 - Fluke - Brian Klaas (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, and get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived (once on...
313 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half...
312 - Chaos and Complexity - Neil Theise (rebroadcast)
Professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, provides an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human...
311 - Cascades of Change - Greg Satell (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades, details how rapid, widespread change can sweep across group...
310 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank
Therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Align Your Mind, an all-access pass to understanding,...
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 pr...
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 Tompk...
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 suscep...
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 conv...
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 Times...
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, Dani...
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 ep...
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, categori...
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 behavior...
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 dat...
299 - Debunkbot
Our guests in this episode are Thomas H. Costello at American University, Gordon Pennycook at Cornell University, and David G. Rand at MIT who created...
298 - Tribal - Michael Morris
In this episode we sit down with renowned cultural psychologist Michael Morris to discuss his new book, Tribal, in which he makes the case for seeing...
297 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
Brian Brushwood tells us how he put together the most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams and over the top c...
296 - Job Therapy - Tessa West
Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your current work makes you feel? Do you know why?
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295 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown
In this episode we sit down with author Kelly Williams Brown, an old friend who (I recently learned) had attempted suicide, which is the subject of th...
294 - Living Constitutionally - A.J. Jacobs
In this episode we sit down with A.J. Jacobs, a journalist who noticed some striking similarities between Biblical fundamentalism and constitutional o...
293 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn (rebroadcast)
Sedona Chinn, who studies how people make sense of competing claims – scientific, environmental, health-related – joins us to discuss her latest resea...
292 - The Society Library - Jamie Joyce
Our guest in this episode is Jamie Joyce who is the president and executive director of The Society Library, an organization that extracts arguments,...
291 - Tough - Terry Crews (rebroadcast)
Terry Crews, actor, athlete, artist, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, host of America’s Got Talent - that T...
290 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you ver...
289 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze (rebroadcast)
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but of the social phenomena that tend to emerge wh...
288 - Fluke - Brian Klaas
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, to get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived once one...
287 - The Complexity of Genius - David Krakauer and Dean Simonton
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the topic. First you’ll hear from David Krakauer, the...
286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to complexity theory, the science o...
285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)
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 cogniti...