You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each e
Do we have the power to change the outcome of history? Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Are we
If dumping evidence into people’s laps often just makes their beliefs stronger, would we just be bet
If you try to correct someone who you know is wrong, you run the risk of alarming their brains to a
We don’t treat all of our beliefs the same. The research shows that when a strong-yet-erroneous, bel
Even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that? I
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? For our guest in this episode, cognitive psycho
Legendary science historian James Burke returns to explain his newest project, a Connections app tha
In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? Yo
Jesse Walker is the author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, a book that explor
For computer scientist Chenhao Tan and his team, the internet community called Change My View offere
Julia Shaw's research demonstrates the fact that there is no reason to believe a memory is more accu
Why do people cheat? Why are our online worlds often so toxic? What motivates us to "catch 'em
In this episode we interview Dean Burnett, author of "Idiot Brain: What Your Brain is Really Up
This episode’s guest, Michael Bond, is the author of The Power of Others, and reading his book I was
In this episode, psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discusses his book: What We Think About When We Try
Oddly enough, we don’t actually know very much about how to change people’s minds, not scientificall
Common sense used to dictate that men and women should only come together for breakfast and dinner.
Hypothetical situations involving dragons, robots, spaceships, and vampires have all been used to pr
Here is a logic puzzle created by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.Linda is single, ou
We often overestimate and overstate just how much we can learn about a claim based on where that cla
