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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267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris
263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)
262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
261 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze
260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)
258 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo
254 - I Never Thought of It That Way - Mónica Guzmán
253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
252 - Procrastination - Britt Frank
251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg
250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
249 - The Power of Surprise (rebroadcast)
248 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin
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