Sedona Chinn, a researcher who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins us to discuss her latest research into doing your own research. In her latest paper she found that the more a person values the concept of doing your own research, the less likely that person is to actually do their own research. In the episode we explore the origin of the concept, what that phrase really means, and the implications of her study on everything from politics to vaccines to conspiratorial thinking.
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067 - The Fallacy Fallacy
065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher
062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross
061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)
057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird
056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine
054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen
052 - Learned Helplessness
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
048 - Contact
047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
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