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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026 - Maslow's Hammer
025 - Enclothed Cognition - Hajo Adam
024 - Sleep - Richard Wiseman
023 - Inbetweenisode 4 - The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
022 - Survivorship Bias - Megan Price
021 - Inbetweenisode 3 - Christina Draganich
020 - The Future - James Burke and Matt Novak
019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal
018 - Inbetweenisode - The Benjamin Franklin Effect
016 - Conspiracy Theories - Steven Novella and Jesse Walker
015 - Inbetweenisode - Narrative Bias
014 - Narratives - Melanie C. Green
013 - Technology - Clive Thompson
012 - Jealousy
011 - Culture
010 - Perversion
009 - Arguing
008 - Video Games
007 - Common Sense
004 - Money
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