You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each e
Sometimes you apply a double standard to the things you love, the things you believe, and the things
If you believe something is bad because it is...bad, or that something is good because, well, it's g
We don’t treat all of our beliefs equally.For some, we see them as either true or false, correct or
In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaw
When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you t
When your identity becomes intertwined with your definitions, you can easily fall victim to somethin
Obviously, the world isn't black and white, so why do we try to drain it of color when backed into a
When confronted with dogma-threatening, worldview-menacing ideas, your knee-jerk response is usually
If you have ever been in an argument, you've likely committed a logical fallacy, and if you know how
The problem with sorting out failures and successes is that failures are often muted, destroyed, or
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is psychologist Laurie Santos who head
What effect does Google have on your brain? Here's an even weirder question: what effect does knowin
In psychology, they call it naive realism, the tendency to believe that the other side is wrong simp
You have the power to wield neuroplasticity to your advantage.Just as you can change your body at th
Reframing is one of those psychological tools that just plain works. It’s practical, simple, and wit
In the show, you'll hear Michael elaborate on why that is. In this episode, our guests are Harvard-t
Is all this new technology improving our thinking or dampening it? Are all these new communication t
10 years after Katrina the residents of New Orleans and portions of Mississippi are still experienci
Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most experti
Is psychology too WEIRD? That's what this episode's guest, psychologist Steven J. Heine suggested wh
