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Arming the Donkeys — 135 episodes

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1

The Switching Type

2

Inheritance: What's a Fair Share?

3

What Makes a Great Parent

4

Chimps and Choices

5

All in the Mind

6

Imaginary Memories

7

Can You Be Too Good?

8

The Search for Psychopaths

9

Early Gestures Predict Later Language

10

Electrifying Research

11

Playing by the Rules

12

The Evolution of Cooperation

13

Who's to Blame?

14

Handwashing and Healthcare

15

Microfinance Pays Big Dividends

16

"Sharing" Online and Offline

17

Can Money Buy Happiness?

18

We're Only Fooling Ourselves

19

Cultures of Corruption

20

License to Cheat

21

Gluttons for Self-Punishment

22

Why Willpower Doesn't Work

23

Teddy Bears and Truthfulness

24

Fighting Feelings of Guilt

25

How We Fool Ourselves

26

The Crooked Path to Wealth

27

Children and Cheating

28

Are Ethicists More Ethical?

29

When Good Scientists Go Bad

30

The Bribery Index

31

Untangling Knot Theory

32

Decisions, Decisions

33

Following Our Dreams

34

Troubled Waters

35

A Logical Look at MPG

36

Small Sizes Are a Big Deal

37

Losing Leads to Winning

38

"Brain Bias" Motivates Memory

39

Getting Real About Saving

40

Gambling on Primate Evolution

41

Reducing Health Care Options

42

Cheating is Par for the Course

43

Monkey See, Monkey Cheat

44

The Heroic Imagination

45

The Irrationality of Sports Betting

46

Compromised Physicians

47

Making Difficult Decisions

48

Too Many Transfusions

49

The Myth of the "Hot Hand"

50

Hot Weather, Hit Batters

51

How to Punish Cheaters

52

Slow to Anger, Fast to Forgive

53

Rudeness is Bad for Business

54

My Irrational Meal

55

Reward and Punishment

56

Dinner with the Drug Reps

57

The Perils of Procrastination

58

Our Creative Peak

59

A Better "Burning Man"

60

Experiments in Dating

61

How We Adapt

62

The IKEA Effect

63

A Talk with Malcolm Gladwell

64

Disaster: It's All Relative

65

Your *Real* Facebook Profile

66

The Invalidity of Interviews

67

The Hug Hormone

68

Monkeys' Consumer Choices

69

Why Do Guys Give?

70

Overcoming Overconfidence

71

How Money Grows

72

Soldiers and Stress

73

A New Use for Search Tools

74

Taking Comfort in Change

75

Changing Our Perception of Time

76

The Marshmallow Paradigm

77

I'll Have What She's Having

78

Health Insurance Inequality

79

Cheating: Par for the Course?

80

Coupons: Timing is Everything

81

Living by the Book

82

Pushing the Envelope

83

From Monkeys to Madoff

84

Zeroing in on Ratings

85

Fowl Behavior Observed

86

ABC's of HIV Prevention

87

Modifying Loss Aversion

88

Split-second Decisions

89

Those Calculating Cabdrivers!

90

A Solution to Music Piracy

91

The Researcher Made Me Do It

92

Lean Times, Plump Partners

93

Blame Brain for Food Choices

94

Why Bonuses Backfire

95

Revenge of the Consumer

96

Heroes Wanted

97

What's in a (Stock's) Name?

98

The Key to Happiness

99

Doctors and the Drug Industry

100

How Rejection Affects Selection

101

Why Don't We Save More?

102

Spend Less, Affirm More

103

Who Needs Men?

104

A Funny Thing Happened....

105

Sexual Economics

106

Economics of Small Decisions

107

The "Yes...Damn!" Effect

108

The Case for Higher Gas Taxes

109

Theories of Dreams

110

Confidence vs. Credibility

111

Surprising Effects of Brain Drain

112

What Makes a Drug Desirable?

113

Knot Theory

114

Too Many Medicare Decisions?

115

Peer Recognition or Money?

116

Ovulatory Cycle Affects Earnings

117

Trickle-down Luxury

118

Blackjack Lessons

119

The Losing Edge

120

Marketing Bottled Water

121

Can Cheaters Beat the Market?

122

Election Outrage!!!

123

Good Things in Small Packages

124

Irrational Investing

125

Wall Street Depression

126

Too Many Health Care Choices

127

Is Experience the Best Teacher?

128

Deadlines and Decisions

129

Risk-Taking: Hold or Fold?

130

What We Remember -- and Why

131

Are Apple Users More Creative?

132

Unconscious Decision-Making

133

Gambling Chimps Calculate Risk

134

How to Measure Fuel Efficiency

135

Why "Arming the Donkeys"?