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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227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal
226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood
225 - Blindsight and Neuromarketing
224 - The Conversation Lab - Misha Glouberman
223 - To Persuade is Human?
222 - The Power of Surprise - Michael Rousell
221 - Conversations and Conversions at the Portable Planetarium
220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee
219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell
218 - Unwinding Anxiety - Jud Brewer
217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)
216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
215 - Jerks at Work - Tessa West
214 - Exploring Genius
213 - Vaccine Hesitancy
212 - The Power of Us - Jay Van Bavel
211 - QAnon and Conspiratorial Narratives
210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)
209 - Masks (rebroadcast)
208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul
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