You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each e
Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your cur
In this episode we sit down with author Kelly Williams Brown, an old friend who (I recently learned)
In this episode we sit down with A.J. Jacobs, a journalist who noticed some striking similarities be
Sedona Chinn, who studies how people make sense of competing claims – scientific, environmental, hea
Our guest in this episode is Jamie Joyce who is the president and executive director of The Society
Terry Crews, actor, athlete, artist, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, star of Brookly
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psy
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology,
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, to get into the existential lessons
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get a
Is a hotdog a sandwich?Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and accor
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us h
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "change
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down to discuss the surprising results of a new st
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the
There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twis
On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semi
Temple Grandin didn’t develop speech until much later than most children, and she might have led a m
