In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, changed the way we think about the way we think. The prevailing wisdom, before their landmark research went viral (in the way things went viral in the 1970s), was that human beings were, for the most part, rational optimizers always making the kinds of judgments and decisions that best maximized the potential of the outcomes under their control. This was especially true in economics at the time. The story of how they generated a paradigm shift so powerful that it reached far outside economics and psychology to change they way all of us see ourselves is a fascinating tale, one that required the invention of something this episode is all about: The Psychology of Single Questions.
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045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy
034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy
033 - Belief - Will Storr
032 - Ego Depletion
031 - Extinction Burst
030 - Practice - David Epstein
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028 - Crowds - Michael Bond
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