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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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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