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You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.

We return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an episode of Decoder Ring in which David McRaney shares some insights from his book, How Minds Change, with Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring.

Decoder Ring

Decoder Ring's The Dress Page

Willa Paskin's Twitter

CBC Interview with Willa Paskin

Is It Game Over?

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring

Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real physical experiences) to actually travel to Saturn, Mars, asteroids, and distant stars. Also, we discuss the recent surge in UFO sighting as well as his famous talk at The Amazing Meeting.

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How Minds Change

Under Alien Skies

Phil Plait's Newsletter

Phil Plait's Substack

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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347 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait

The suffering is real, but the source may not be what you assume. That's the essence of the nocebo effect, the placebo effect's evil twin. As neuroscientist Dr. Helen Pilcher explains, illness is not simply a matter of biology. Our thoughts, conscious or otherwise, can make lead to symptoms in unexpected ways. 

Previous Episodes

How Minds Change

Dr. Helen Pilcher

This Book May Cause Side Effects

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

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346 - No Nocebo Effect - Helen Pilcher

MIT professor Thomas Levenson, the author of the book A Pox on Fools, takes us through the same repeating patterns throughout history which have led to antivaxxers and vaccine hesitancy since the very first vaccines.

Previous Episodes

How Minds Change

Thomas Levenson

A Pox on Fools

A History of Vaccines

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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345 - A Pox on Fools - Thomas Levenson

Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring psychologist Tenelle Porter telling comedian Chris Duffy how she is researching how to conduct better research into intellectual humility.

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Transcript at TED

How to Be A Better Human

The Gateway Drugs to Intellectual Humility

Tenelle Porter's Research

Tenelle Porter's Website

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Kitted Shop

The Story of Kitted

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s BlueSky

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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344 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter

What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It.

Matthew Facciani's Website

The Misguided Podcast

Misguided

Kitted Shop

The Story of Kitted

How Minds Change

David McRaney's BlueSky

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

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343 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani

Tim Harford of the podcast Cautionary Tales sits down with David McRaney to hear a story from David's book, How Minds Change, about how (and why) a prominent conspiracy theorist realized he was wrong.

Charlie Veitch was certain that 9/11 was an inside job. The attack on the World Trade Center wasn’t the work of Al-Qaeda, but an elaborate conspiracy. He became a darling of so-called “9/11 truthers” until he actually visited Ground Zero to meet architects, engineers and the relatives of the dead.

The trip changed his mind. His fellow “truthers” did not take Charlie’s conversion well.

Kitted

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How Minds Change

Cautionary Tales

Tim Harford

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind

Communications professor Heather Barnes teaches us how to use what she learned teaching at Second City, managing the Museum of Science and Industry, and taking classes at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science to truly engage with difficult people through the power of positive rants.

Kitted

Previous Episodes

How Minds Change

Heather Barnes

Improv@Work

Second City

The Center for Enlightened Disagreement

Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes

There are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, and chess champion Jennifer Shahade tells us how we can borrow from the best chess players' decision-tree approach to avoid considering every possible option and instead "think sideways" to consider the best choices on the board.

Previous Episodes

How Minds Change

Jennifer Shahade’s Website

Thinking Sideways

Does chess need intelligence?

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade

Northwestern University just launched the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, a real-world institution devoted to "research-backed approaches to cultivating open-mindedness, identifying one’s own cognitive biases, working collaboratively with others despite disagreement and more."

In this episode, David McRaney details his time as a resident of the Center, teaching students how to ask questions that activate a person's introspection, and then follow up with questions that evoke a person's motivated reasoning, then keep going until the other side articulates things they may have never considered before, and, in so doing, reveal the deeper motivations and values generating disagreement.

You'll learn about this and all the other modules of the Center's pilot program. You'll also learn about a new game they are designing to improve scientific literacy of news consumers and news creators.

Previous Episodes

How Minds Change

The Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement

Brad Zakarin

Eli Finkel

Nour Kteily

Medill School for Journalism

Patti Wolter

The Center for Public Deliberation

The Listen First Coalition

Better Together America

Heather Barnes

Martin Carcasson

Point Taken

The Visual Thinking Lab

Steven Franconeri

Joshua Greene’s Website

Tango

Tango Quiz Game Research

Love Factually Website

Joshua Hudson

Protein Research

NYT Protein Deep Dive

Tylenol Metastudy

The Garage

Monica Guzman

Braver Angels

Jacqui Banaszynski

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

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339 - Enlightened Disagreement

Brian Brushwood tells us how he put together the most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams and over the top chicanery. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.

Brian's Website

Brian's Twitter

The World's Greatest Con

New Yorker Article about Spiritualism

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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297 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

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