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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208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul
207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar
206 - Narcissism
205 - Unfollow - Megan Phelps-Roper
204 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton
203 - Transcend - Scott Barry Kaufman
202 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
201 - Good Dog - Kate Leaver
200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman
198 - Reflection and Insurrection
197 - Conspiratorial Thinking
196 - Art (rebroadcast)
195 - Clearer Thinking - Spencer Greenberg
194 - Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch
193 - Gossip
192 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (rebroadcast)
191 - Livewired - David Eagleman
190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
189 - The Vaccine
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