You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each e
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? For our guest in this episode, cognitive psycho
We've transferred our biases to artificial intelligence, and now those machine minds are creating th
In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? Ho
One of the most effective ways to change people’s minds is to put your argument into a narrative for
For computer scientist Chenhao Tan and his team, the internet community called Change My View offere
If you wanted to build a team in such a way that you maximized its overall intelligence, how would y
If you could compare the person you were before you became sleep deprived to the person after, you’d
What effect does Google have on your brain? Here's an even weirder question: what effect does knowin
The facts don't speak for themselves. Someone always speaks for them. From the opioid crisis to the
In late 2014 and early 2015, the city of Starkville, Mississippi, passed an anti-discrimination meas
In this episode, psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discusses his book: What We Think About When We Try
In this episode, Tali Sharot, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist at University College Lond
We are each born labeled. In moments of ambiguity, those labels can change the way people make decis
Confirmation bias is our tendency to seek evidence that supports our beliefs and confirms our assump
Is psychology too WEIRD? That's what this episode's guest, psychologist Steven J. Heine suggested wh
In psychology, they call it naive realism, the tendency to believe that the other side is wrong beca
"Science is wrong about everything, but you can trust it more than anything."That's the as
In medical school they tell you half of what you are about to learn won't be true when you graduate
The cyberpunks, the Founding Fathers, 19th Century philosophers, and the Enlightenment thinkers - th
Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most experti
