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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.

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.

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Previous Episodes

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.

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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

Patreon

 
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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

Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School, tells us how to avoid the Ladder of Misinference by examining how narratives, statistics, and articles can mislead, especially when they align with our preconceived notions and confirm what we believe is true, assume is true, and wish were true.

Alex Edmans 

May Contain Lies

What to Test in a Post Trust World

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

Kitted

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338 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans (rebroadcast)

How is AI reshaping human reasoning? What is cognitive surrender, and how do we avoid its negative impact? What is system three thinking, and how can we get the most out of it? Artificial intelligence researchers Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw have some answers, some questions, and some suggestions.

Previous Episodes

Thinking: Fast, Slow, and Artificial

Gideon Nave's Website

Steven D. Shaw's Website

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

Patreon

 
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337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw

If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half the country, you only need 3.5 percent of the population to join – but there are some caveats, and Erica Chenoweth whose research led to the discovery of the 3.5 Percent Rule, explains them to us in this episode.

Previous Episodes

Erica Chenoweth's Website

Why Civil Resistance Works (the paper)

Why Civil Resistance Works (the book)

The TED Talk

The Q&A

List of Protests by Size

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Newsletter

Patreon

 
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336 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth (rebroadcast)

Therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Align Your Mind, an all-access pass to understanding, befriending, and leading the multiple voices within yourself.

 Grounded in the latest research on Parts Work and Internal Family Systems, and offering proven techniques from Frank’s clinical practice and personal challenges, this engaging guide is a user manual to your own mind—and presents a road map for finding peace, confidence, and a deeper understanding of who you truly are.

Patreon

Previous Episodes

Britt Frank’s Practice

Align Your Mind Website

Britt Frank’s Instagram

How Minds Change

Newsletter

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney's Bluesky

YANSS Twitter

 

 
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335 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)

In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tompkins. Matt is the author of The Spectacle of Illusion, a book about the long history of the manipulation of our own magical thinking and how studying deception can help us better understand perception, memory, belief, and more.

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s BlueSky

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Matt Tompkins

The Spectacle of Illusion

Prisoners of Silence

Clever Hans

Wilhelm von Osten

Carl Sagan Quote

Science of Magic Association

Society for Psychical Research

Skeptical Inquirer Magazine

Houdini's Debunking

Newsletter

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334 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins (rebroadcast)

How can two people watch the same video yet see two different things? How can two people witness the same event but arrive at two different truths about what they witnessed? How can the same evidence lead people to drastically different realities? In this episode, Dr. Jay Van Bavel at NYU explains.

Kitted Executive Academy

The Power of Us Website

They Saw A Game

Jay Van Bavel’s Twitter

Jay Van Bavel’s Website

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

Newsletter

Patreon

 
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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind

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