You Are Not So Smart

YANSS 282 – How the psychology of single questions changed everything about how we make sense of how we make sense of everything (Di, 05 Mär 2024)
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, “changed the […]
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YANSS 281 – How a pernicious cognitive bias limits our ability to use chatbots properly (and how to overcome it) (Mon, 19 Feb 2024)
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down with David McRaney to discuss the surprising results of […]
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YANSS 280 – The science behind building the skills required to become a supercommunicator (Mon, 05 Feb 2024)
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New […]
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YANSS 279 – Why people don’t speak out against, and even defend, norms they secretly despise (Sat, 20 Jan 2024)
Have you ever been in a classroom or a business meeting or a conference  and had a question […]
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YANSS 278 – Florence Hazrat on the history of punctuation and why the exclamation point was invented after the question mark! (Sun, 07 Jan 2024)
On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon […]
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YANSS 277 – Temple Grandin discusses the various styles of thinking used by human brains to make sense of the world outside of their skulls (Sun, 07 Jan 2024)
Temple Grandin was born at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the […]
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YANSS 276 – How to handle contentious conversations with people ready to get angry over how your opinion isn’t their opinion (Tue, 19 Dec 2023)
In this episode David McRaney is interviewed by Andrea Chalupa about the psychological research covered in How Minds […]
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YANSS 275 – Could a fungus that takes over the minds of living creatures really cause a deadly pandemic in humans like in The Last of Us? (Mon, 11 Dec 2023)
How likely is the fungal infection in The Last of Us? The one that takes over human brains […]
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YANSS 274 – How cascades of rapid change routinely sweep across families, institutions, and nations (Mon, 27 Nov 2023)
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades, details how rapid, […]
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YANSS 273 – How to test just how much you (and your friends and family) do (or do not) believe in a variety of conspiracy theories (Sun, 12 Nov 2023)
In this episode Jesse Richardson tells us all about ConspiracyTest.org, a new project designed to be a weird, […]
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YANSS 272 – How to develop the mental skills required to know when to stick to your plans and when to abandon them (Sun, 29 Oct 2023)
I recently sat down for a live event and Q&A with the great Annie Duke to discuss her […]
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YANSS 271 – The psychology behind the apocalyptic anxieties of billionaire preppers (Mon, 16 Oct 2023)
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics […]
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YANSS 270 – Defining, undefining, and redefining the word “genius” (Mon, 09 Oct 2023)
In this show, you’ll hear the first episode of a documentary series I made for Himalaya, an audio […]
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YANSS 269 – Deconstructing How Minds Change with Michael Taft (Thu, 14 Sep 2023)
In celebration of How Minds Change, my new book, turning one-year-old, in this episode Michael Taft interviews David […]
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YANSS 268 – The game we can’t escape, the psychology behind our perpetual drive to pursue status (Fri, 08 Sep 2023)
In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading […]
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YANSS 267 – Why the people who are most likely to suggest that you “do your own research” are also the least likely to do their own research (Sun, 20 Aug 2023)
Sedona Chinn, a researcher who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins […]
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YANSS 266 – The psychology behind Project Alpha, the hoax and publicity stunt meant to improve scientific rigor and debunk the supernatural (Sun, 20 Aug 2023)
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The […]
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YANSS 265 – Jennifer Shahade explains how we can better understand obsession, strategy, representation, sexism, and sideways thinking by exploring the world of professional chess players (Sun, 20 Aug 2023)
In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and […]
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YANSS 264 – How to psychologically inoculate yourself against scams, cons, and chicanery (Tue, 11 Jul 2023)
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of […]
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YANSS 263 – How to create better online environments in which arguing is more likely to change people’s minds (Tue, 11 Jul 2023)
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments […]
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