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EPISODE · Jun 18, 2026 · 10 MIN

The Confidence That Collapses When You Try to Explain

from The Psychology of People

You think you understand a zipper, Wi-Fi, inflation, or a toilet—until someone asks you to explain the steps. This episode explores the illusion of explanatory depth: the research-backed gap between feeling familiar with a system and actually understanding its causal mechanism. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

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