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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147 - The Replication Crisis (rebroadcast)
146 - Tribal Psychology (rebroadcast)
145 - Team Human
144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)
143 - How to Talk to People About Things
142 - Debate (rebroadcast)
141 - Not A Scientist
140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)
139 - The Friendship Cure
138 - Evil
137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)
136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change
135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)
134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model
133 - Uncivil Agreement
132 - Practice (rebroadcast)
131 - The Marshmallow Replication
130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast)
129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
128 - Happy Brain
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