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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127 - Selfie
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)
125 - Status Quo Rationalization
124 - Belief Change Blindness
123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)
122 - Tribal Psychology
121 - Progress (rebroadcast)
120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four
119 - The Unpersuadables
118 - Connections (rebroadcast)
117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)
116 - Reality (rebroadcast)
115 - Machine Bias
114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
113 - Narrative Persuasion
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
111 - Collective Intelligence
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)
108 - Pandora's Lab
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