You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each e
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us h
Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School, tells us how to avoid the Ladder of M
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, and get into the existential lessons
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can c
Professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, provides an introduction to the science o
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades, details h
Therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Alig
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "change
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something s
This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with ve
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake n
In this episode we return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most vira
In this episode we sit down with Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question – and a man
In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive
In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult that predicted the exact date and circumstances of the
Our guests in this episode are Thomas H. Costello at American University, Gordon Pennycook at Cornel
In this episode we sit down with renowned cultural psychologist Michael Morris to discuss his new bo
Brian Brushwood tells us how he put together the most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his
