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 Okt 20181h 15min
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 Okt 201853min
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 Sep 201838min
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 Sep 201832min
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 Aug 201839min
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 Aug 201853min
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 Jul 20181h 17min
132 - Practice (rebroadcast)
Is it true that all it takes to be an expert is 10,000 hours of practice? What about professional athletes? Do different people get more out of practice than others, and if so, is it nature or nurture...
16 Jul 201843min
