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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.

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

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YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel

In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true.

Our guests are three of the scientists exploring a newly named cognitive distortion, one that every human being is prone to exhibiting, one that is so common and so easily provoked that nefarious actors depend on it when distributing disinformation and propaganda.

Samuel Woolley, Katie Joseff, and Michael Schwalbe will share their methods, findings, and takeaways. They will also explain the troublesome nature of something they are calling concordance over truth bias – a distortion that most often appears in those who have the most (undeserved) confidence in their own (not-so-objective) objectivity. 

- How Minds Change

- Show Notes

- Newsletter

- David McRaney's BlueSky

- David McRaney’s Twitter

- YANSS Twitter

- Why Do We Share Our Feelings With Others?

- Concordance Over Truth Bias

- Samuel Wooley

- Katie Joseff

- Michael Schwalbe

- Geoffrey Cohen

 
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332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)

Dr. Martin Carcasson tells us how he, as the Director of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State, trains people how to facilitate deliberation and overcome wicked problems so that they can "spark processes that are particularly designed to avoid triggering the worst in human nature and tap into the best."

Kitted Executive Academy

The Center for Public Deliberation

The Listen First Coalition

Better Together America

Martin Carcasson

The Toulmin Model

Wicked Problems

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

Newsletter

Show Notes

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331 - Wicked Problems - Martin Carcasson

Warren Berger has made a career out of classifying, categorizing, and making sense of the many varieties of questions that we ask and in this episode he explains how we can ask more beautiful questions that can lead to all manner of better outcomes.

Warren Berger's Website

Warren Berger's Twitter

A More Beautiful Question

Carl Sagan on Asking Questions

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Sky Is Blue

The Real Reason the Sky is Blue

How Does Rayleigh Scattering ACTUALLY Work? (The Blue Sky)

Kitted

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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330 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger (rebroadcast)

Dr. Steven Franconeri explains the powerful insights and opportunities offered by a game he and his team created for having better disagreements about just about anything, but especially about the sort of topics that often lead to arguments, fights, and terrible holiday dinners.

Kitted Executive Academy

Point Taken

The Visual Thinking Lab

Steven Franconeri

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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329 - Point Taken - Steven Franconeri

We sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, a world-class geometer, who takes us on a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything

His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.

Kitted Executive Academy

Jordan Ellenberg’s Website

Jordan Ellenberg’s Academic Website

Jordan Ellenberg’s Twitter

Shape

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast)

Philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem, and in so doing created a way to encourage people to contribute to charities that do the most good, and, in addition, play quiz games that can reduce polarization and possibly save democracy.

Kitted Executive Academy

Pods Fight Poverty

Give Directly

Giving Multiplier

Joshua Greene's Website

Moral Tribes

The Trolley Problem in Real Life

A Buddhist Monk Faces The Trolley Problem

Alief vs Belief

Tango

Tango Quiz Game Research

Charitable Giving Research

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

David McRaney’s BlueSky

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

Patreon

 

 
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327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene

We sit down with Dr. Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose new book, The Origin of Language, presents a completely new and fascinating theory for how language emerged in homo sapiens, in human beings, in you and me and the rest of us.

Madeleine Beekman

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman

In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavior. She’s also the co-host of a podcast about activism called "What Do We Want?" and she wrote a book titled Don’t Talk About Politics which is about how to discuss politics without necessarily talking about politics.

Sarah Stein Lubrano's Website

Sarah Stein Lubrano's Substack

Sarah Stein Lubrano's Twitter

Kitted

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

Newsletter

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325 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two (rebroadcast)

In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult who predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that date passed and the world did not end.

Also, we explore our drive to remain consistent via our desire to reduce cognitive dissonance. When you notice you’ve done something you believe is wrong, then you will either stop doing that thing or stop believing it is wrong. And if you believe something is true but you come across some information that disconfirms that belief, you’ll either change your belief, challenge the validity of the challenging information, or go looking for confirmation you were right all along.

Previous Episodes

Kitted Shop

The Story of Kitted

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s BlueSky

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

YANSS Facebook

Show Notes

Newsletter

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YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel

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