065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
The problem with sorting out failures and successes is that failures are often muted, destroyed, or somehow removed from sight while successes are left behind, weighting your decisions and perceptions...
17 Dec 201531min
064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is psychologist Laurie Santos who heads the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. In that lab, she and her colleagues are e...
3 Dec 201548min
063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher
What effect does Google have on your brain? Here's an even weirder question: what effect does knowing that you have access to Google have on your brain?In this episode we explore what happens when a h...
19 Nov 201553min
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 ...
5 Nov 20151h
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...
22 Okt 20151h 22min
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
Reframing is one of those psychological tools that just plain works. It’s practical, simple, and with practice and repetition it often leads to real change in people with a variety of thinking problem...
7 Okt 20151h 10min
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
In the show, you'll hear Michael elaborate on why that is. In this episode, our guests are Harvard-trained psychiatrist Michael I. Bennett and his comedy writer daughter Sarah Bennett whose new book, ...
23 Sep 20151h 5min
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...
10 Sep 20151h 10min
