138 - Evil

So, you might think that, in general, as an idea, as a practice, the A/B test would be beloved, supported, and encouraged as a way to test out policies and practices and drugs and treatments, but new ...

15 Jun 20201h 27min

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, the majority of the people believe that th...

1 Jun 20201h 26min

In this episode we sit down with Chris Clearfield, author of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About ItPatreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz com...

18 Mai 20201h 48min

Our guest on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is Dr. Julia Shaw, the author of The Memory Illusion, Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories i...

3 Mai 20201h 19min

In this episode, we sit down with the director and producers of the documentary film, Behind the Curve, an exploration of motivated reasoning and conspiratorial thinking told through the lives of peop...

19 Apr 20201h 21min

Flatten the curve.That idea has spread through the population faster than COVID-19 ever could.That’s the power of culture, of human psychology, of brains interacting with brains. Of course, culture an...

5 Apr 20202h 2min

Priors are what neuroscientists and philosophers call the years of experience and regularity leading up to the present. All the ways a ball has bounced, all the ways a pancake has tasted, the way the ...

26 Mar 20201h 7min

Back in 2015, before Brexit, before Clinton vs. Trump, before weaponized Macedonian internet trolls, one NPR affiliate called The Dress, “The debate that broke the internet,” and The Washington Post r...

8 Mar 202036min