193 - Gossip
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Robb Willer to discuss the psychology of gossip: how much we do it, why we do it, its major functions, and what life would be be like without it.Patreon: ...
16 Nov 20201h 11min
192 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are. The evidence gathered so far by psychologists and neuroscientists seems to suggest that ...
1 Nov 202056min
191 - Livewired - David Eagleman
In this episode we sit down with neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn how brains turn noise into signal, chaos into order, electrical spikes into meaning, and how new technology can expand subjectiv...
18 Okt 20201h 13min
190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that? In this episode learn all about the strange phenomenon of learned helplessn...
4 Okt 202043min
189 - The Vaccine
In this giant episode, experts on vaccines, epidemiology, psychology, and science communication explain how we created so much confusion about COVID-19, and how we can avoid doing it again when a vacc...
21 Sep 20201h 43min
188 - The Happiness Lab - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we welcome Yale psychologist Laurie Santos who discusses her new podcast, The Happiness Lab which explores how wrong and misguided we can be when we pursue the things we think will ma...
6 Sep 20201h 6min
187 - Bad Habits - Jud Brewer (rebroadcast)
In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist and addiction psychiatrist, discusses bad habits and how to change them. He is the author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love ...
24 Aug 20201h 13min
186 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb (rebroadcast)
In Lori Gottlieb's new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, she opens with a quote from James Baldwin that reads, "Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is m...
10 Aug 202041min
