040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos

040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos

How far back can we trace our irrational behaviors and cognitive biases? Evolutionarily speaking, why do we even do these things? Can we blame our faulty logic on our cultures and institutions, or should we blame it on our biology and our genetic inheritance? Our guest on this episode is psychologist Laurie Santos who has created a novel approach to solving these questions - a marketplace where monkeys learn how to use money just like humans, and where they tend to make the same kind of mistakes as well.

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140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)

140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)

We've transferred our biases to artificial intelligence, and now those machine minds are creating the futures they predict. But there's a way to stop it.In this episode we explore how machine learning...

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139 - The Friendship Cure

139 - The Friendship Cure

On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life-threatening impact of loneliness and the severe me...

21 Loka 20181h 15min

138 - Evil

138 - Evil

In this episode, we sit down with psychologist Julia Shaw, an expert in memory and criminal psychology, to discuss her new book - Evil. In the book, she makes a case for something she calls "evil empa...

8 Loka 201853min

137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)

137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)

One of the most effective ways to change people’s minds is to put your argument into a narrative format, a story, but not just any story. The most persuasive narratives are those that transport us. On...

24 Syys 201838min

136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change

136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change

In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of...

10 Syys 201832min

135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)

135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)

In this episode, Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist at University College London, explains our' innate optimism bias.When the brain estimates the outcome of future events, it ten...

26 Elo 201839min

134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model

134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model

In this episode we sit down with psychology legend Richard Petty to discuss the Elaboration Likelihood Model, a theory he developed with psychologist John Cacioppo in the 1980s that unified the study ...

16 Elo 201853min

133 - Uncivil Agreement

133 - Uncivil Agreement

In this episode, we welcome Lilliana Mason on the program to discuss her new book, Uncivil Agreement, which focuses on the idea: “Our conflicts are over who we think we are, rather than reasoned diffe...

30 Heinä 20181h 17min

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