You Are Not So Smart
YANSS 303 – What we can learn about perception, priors, and truth itself from the party dress that sparked a global debate over the nature of reality (Mo, 23 Dez 2024)In this episode we return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most […]
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YANSS 302 – How asking the right kinds of questions can lead to innovations, breakthroughs, and discoveries (Mon, 09 Dec 2024)
In this episode we sit down with Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question – and […]
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YANSS 301 – How our drive to resolve cognitive dissonance can lead us to change our minds, accept our fates, and become very, very wrong (Mon, 25 Nov 2024)
In this episode, we discuss the landmark 1959 study that popularized the term “cognitive dissonance,” and we dive […]
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YANSS 300 – Why cults often grow stronger after their beliefs, predictions, assumptions, and leaders all turn out to be wrong (Tue, 12 Nov 2024)
In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult that predicted the exact date and circumstances of the […]
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YANSS 299 – An interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy theories via back-and-forth chat (Tue, 29 Oct 2024)
Our guests in this episode are Thomas H. Costello at American University, Gordon Pennycook at Cornell University, and […]
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YANSS 298 – How the tribal instincts that divide us could be harnessed to help bring us together (Wed, 16 Oct 2024)
In this episode we sit down with renowned cultural psychologist Michael Morris to discuss his new book, Tribal, […]
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YANSS 297 – The psychology behind Project Alpha, the supernatural publicity stunt (and hoax) meant to improve scientific rigor (Wed, 16 Oct 2024)
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The […]
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YANSS 296 – Why you are in an unhappy relationship with your job, how to work it out if you can, and what you should do to avoid a messy breakup if you can’t (Mon, 16 Sep 2024)
Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how […]
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YANSS 295 – How to survive the feeling that everything is coming to an end when it most certainly isn’t (but it sure feels like it is) (Mon, 02 Sep 2024)
In this episode we sit down with author Kelly Williams Brown, an old friend who (I recently learned) […]
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YANSS 294 – Why it is difficult to live by the original meaning of just about any set of rules, regulations, or guidelines (especially very old ones) (Mon, 19 Aug 2024)
In this episode we sit down with A.J. Jacobs, a journalist who noticed some striking similarities between Biblical […]
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YANSS 293 – Why the people who are the most likely to suggest that you “do your own research” are also the least likely to do their own research (Mon, 05 Aug 2024)
Sedona Chinn, a researcher who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins […]
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YANSS 292 – How one organization is attempting to end analysis paralysis by creating a library of our collective arguing (Mon, 22 Jul 2024)
Our guest in this episode is Jamie Joyce who is the president and executive director of The Society […]
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YANSS 291 – How Terry Crews redefined his concept of masculinity (and himself) (Mon, 08 Jul 2024)
Terry Crews, the actor, the athlete, the artist, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, […]
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YANSS 290 – How to build a bridge across the gap between what you intend to do and what you tend to do instead (Tue, 25 Jun 2024)
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological […]
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YANSS 289 – How to fix any bureaucracy by hacking its networks of human behavior from the inside (Tue, 25 Jun 2024)
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but […]
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YANSS 288 – How a healthy relationship with chaos, randomness, and change can lead to a life well lived (Tue, 25 Jun 2024)
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, to get into the existential lessons […]
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YANSS 287 – The complex task of defining, categorizing, and classifying “genius” (Wed, 15 May 2024)
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of “genius” with two experts on the […]
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YANSS 286 – An introduction to complexity science, chaos theory, and how life, um, finds a way (Wed, 15 May 2024)
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get […]
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YANSS 285 – The science behind how and why we talk past each other (and what to do about it) (Wed, 15 May 2024)
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich is the same as another person's concept are shockingly low.
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YANSS 284 – A radical scientific investigation and deeply personal inquiry into the elusive emotion we call awe (Tue, 14 May 2024)
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the […]
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