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You Are Not So Smart — 344 episodes

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347 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait

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346 - No Nocebo Effect - Helen Pilcher

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345 - A Pox on Fools - Thomas Levenson

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344 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter

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343 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani

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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind

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341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes

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340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade

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339 - Enlightened Disagreement

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338 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans (rebroadcast)

11

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw

12

336 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth (rebroadcast)

13

335 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)

14

334 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins (rebroadcast)

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YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel

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332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)

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331 - Wicked Problems - Martin Carcasson

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330 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger (rebroadcast)

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329 - Point Taken - Steven Franconeri

20

328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast)

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327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene

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326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman

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325 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two (rebroadcast)

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324 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One (rebroadcast)

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323 - Job Therapy - Tessa West (rebroadcast)

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322 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter

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321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast)

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320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani

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319 - Love Factually - Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick

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318 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)

31

317 - Don't Talk About Politics - Sarah Stein Lubrano

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316 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy (rebroadcast)

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315 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans

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314 - Fluke - Brian Klaas (rebroadcast)

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313 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth

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312 - Chaos and Complexity - Neil Theise (rebroadcast)

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311 - Cascades of Change - Greg Satell (rebroadcast)

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310 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank

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309 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell (rebroadcast)

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308 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins

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307 - Concordance Over Truth Bias

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306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast)

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305 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg (rebroadcast)

44

304 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris (rebroadcast)

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303 - The Dress - Decoder Ring

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302 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger

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301 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two

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300 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One

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299 - Debunkbot

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298 - Tribal - Michael Morris

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297 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

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296 - Job Therapy - Tessa West

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295 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown

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294 - Living Constitutionally - A.J. Jacobs

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293 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn (rebroadcast)

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292 - The Society Library - Jamie Joyce

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291 - Tough - Terry Crews (rebroadcast)

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290 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank

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289 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze (rebroadcast)

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288 - Fluke - Brian Klaas

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287 - The Complexity of Genius - David Krakauer and Dean Simonton

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286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise

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285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)

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284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)

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283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy

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282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell

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281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin

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280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg

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YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)

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278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat

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277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)

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276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa

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275 - Blight - Emily Monosson

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274 - Cascades - Greg Satell

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273 - The Conspiracy Test - Jesse Richardson

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272 - Quit! - Annie Duke (rebroadcast)

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271 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)

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270 - Defining Genius

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269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft

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268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)

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267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn

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266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood

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265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)

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264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris

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263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)

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262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

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261 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze

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260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)

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259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)

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258 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait

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257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd

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256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas

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255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo

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254 - I Never Thought of It That Way - Mónica Guzmán

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253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

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252 - Procrastination - Britt Frank

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251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg

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250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner

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249 - The Power of Surprise (rebroadcast)

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248 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin

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247 - Narcissism (rebroadcast)

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246 - Ideaflow - Jeremy Utley

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245 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind - Tim Harford

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244 - Quit - Annie Duke

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243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel

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242 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

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241 - The Status Game - Will Storr

108

240 - QAnon and Conspiracy Narratives (rebroadcast)

109

239 - You're Invited - Jon Levy

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238 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade

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237 - Reactance - Michele Belot

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236 - How Minds Change

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235 - Tough - Terry Crews

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234 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford

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233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs

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232 - Think Again - Adam Grant

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231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)

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230 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank

119

229 - What's Your Problem? - Jacob Goldstein

120

228 - The Power of Regret - Daniel H. Pink

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227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal

122

226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood

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225 - Blindsight and Neuromarketing

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224 - The Conversation Lab - Misha Glouberman

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223 - To Persuade is Human?

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222 - The Power of Surprise - Michael Rousell

127

221 - Conversations and Conversions at the Portable Planetarium

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220 - A Very Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee

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219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell

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218 - Unwinding Anxiety - Jud Brewer

131

217 - Livewired - David Eagleman (rebroadcast)

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216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg

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215 - Jerks at Work - Tessa West

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214 - Exploring Genius

135

213 - Vaccine Hesitancy

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212 - The Power of Us - Jay Van Bavel

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211 - QAnon and Conspiratorial Narratives

138

210 - Julia Shaw - The Memory Illusion (rebroadcast)

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209 - Masks (rebroadcast)

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208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul

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207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar

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206 - Narcissism

143

205 - Unfollow - Megan Phelps-Roper

144

204 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton

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203 - Transcend - Scott Barry Kaufman

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202 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)

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201 - Good Dog - Kate Leaver

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200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)

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199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman

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198 - Reflection and Insurrection

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197 - Conspiratorial Thinking

152

196 - Art (rebroadcast)

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195 - Clearer Thinking - Spencer Greenberg

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194 - Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch

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193 - Gossip

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192 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (rebroadcast)

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191 - Livewired - David Eagleman

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190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)

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189 - The Vaccine

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188 - The Happiness Lab - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)

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187 - Bad Habits - Jud Brewer (rebroadcast)

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186 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb (rebroadcast)

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185 - Masks

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184 - The Blind Spots Between Us - Gleb Tsipursky

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183 - Black Lives Matter

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182 - The A/B Effect (rebroadcast)

167

181 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)

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180 - Meltdown - Chris Clearfield

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179 - The Memory Illusion - Julia Shaw

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178 - Behind the Curve (rebroadcast)

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177 - COVID - 19

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176 - Socks and Crocs - Part Two

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175 - Socks And Crocs - Part One

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174 - Bad Advice - Paul Offit (rebroadcast)

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173 - Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Michele Gelfand

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172 - Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)

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171 - Partisan Brains

178

170 - Mark Sargent

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169 - Art

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168 - Not a Scientist (rebroadcast)

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167 - How to Talk to People About Things (rebroadcast)

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166 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change (rebroadcast)

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165 - The Friendship Cure (rebroadcast)

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164 - Meetings - Steven Rogelberg

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163 - The Happiness Lab

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162 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model (rebroadcast)

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161 - Bad Habits

188

160 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

189

159 - Uncivil Agreement (rebroadcast)

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158 - The AB Effect

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157 - Pluralistic Ignorance

192

156 - Selfie (rebroadcast)

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155 - Live in New York - Post Truth

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154 - The Marshmallow Replication (rebroadcast)

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153 - Happy Brain (rebroadcast)

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152 - Status Quo Rationalization (rebroadcast)

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151 - Behind the Curve

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150 - Belief Change Blindness (rebroadcast)

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149 - Bad Advice

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148 - Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

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147 - The Replication Crisis (rebroadcast)

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146 - Tribal Psychology (rebroadcast)

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145 - Team Human

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144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)

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143 - How to Talk to People About Things

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142 - Debate (rebroadcast)

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141 - Not A Scientist

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140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)

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139 - The Friendship Cure

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138 - Evil

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137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)

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136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change

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135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)

214

134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model

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133 - Uncivil Agreement

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132 - Practice (rebroadcast)

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131 - The Marshmallow Replication

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130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast)

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129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)

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128 - Happy Brain

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127 - Selfie

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126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)

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125 - Status Quo Rationalization

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124 - Belief Change Blindness

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123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)

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122 - Tribal Psychology

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121 - Progress (rebroadcast)

228

120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four

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119 - The Unpersuadables

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118 - Connections (rebroadcast)

231

117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)

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116 - Reality (rebroadcast)

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115 - Machine Bias

234

114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)

235

113 - Narrative Persuasion

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112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)

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111 - Collective Intelligence

238

110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias

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109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)

240

108 - Pandora's Lab

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107 - Debate

242

106 - The Climate Paradox (rebroadcast)

243

105 - Optimism Bias

244

104 - Labels (rebroadcast)

245

103 - Desirability Bias

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102 - WEIRD Science (rebroadcast)

247

101 - Naive Realism (rebroadcast)

248

100 - The Replication Crisis

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099 - The Half Life of Facts

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098 - Active Information Avoidance

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097 - Scams (rebroadcast)

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096 - Progress

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095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three

254

094 - The Backfire Effect - Part Two

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093 - The Backfire Effect - Part One

256

091 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)

257

090 - Reality - Donald Hoffman

258

089 - Connections - James Burke

259

088 - Moral Arguments

260

087 - Paranoia

261

086 - Change My View

262

085 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw (rebroadcast)

263

084 - Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan

264

083 - Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett

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082 - Crowds (rebroadcast)

266

081 - The Climate Paradox

267

080 - Deep Canvassing

268

079 - Separate Spheres

269

078 - The Existential Fallacy

270

077 - The Conjunction Fallacy

271

076 - The Genetic Fallacy

272

075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts

273

074 - Begging The Question

274

073 - Bayes' Theorem

275

072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)

276

071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

277

070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy

278

069 - The Black And White Fallacy

279

068 - The Strawman Fallacy

280

067 - The Fallacy Fallacy

281

065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)

282

064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)

283

063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher

284

062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross

285

061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

286

060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris

287

059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett

288

058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)

289

057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird

290

056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood

291

055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine

292

054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)

293

053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen

294

052 - Learned Helplessness

295

051 - Work - Laszlo Bock

296

050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)

297

049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang

298

048 - Contact

299

047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson

300

046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella

301

045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri

302

044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)

303

043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons

304

042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister

305

041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher

306

040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos

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039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott

308

038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect

309

037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink

310

036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect

311

035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy

312

034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy

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033 - Belief - Will Storr

314

032 - Ego Depletion

315

031 - Extinction Burst

316

030 - Practice - David Epstein

317

029 - Labels - Adam Alter

318

028 - Crowds - Michael Bond

319

027 - Science Communication - Joe Hanson

320

026 - Maslow's Hammer

321

025 - Enclothed Cognition - Hajo Adam

322

024 - Sleep - Richard Wiseman

323

023 - Inbetweenisode 4 - The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight

324

022 - Survivorship Bias - Megan Price

325

021 - Inbetweenisode 3 - Christina Draganich

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020 - The Future - James Burke and Matt Novak

327

019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal

328

018 - Inbetweenisode - The Benjamin Franklin Effect

329

016 - Conspiracy Theories - Steven Novella and Jesse Walker

330

015 - Inbetweenisode - Narrative Bias

331

014 - Narratives - Melanie C. Green

332

013 - Technology - Clive Thompson

333

012 - Jealousy

334

011 - Culture

335

010 - Perversion

336

009 - Arguing

337

008 - Video Games

338

007 - Common Sense

339

004 - Money

340

005 - Selling Out

341

004 - The Self

342

003 - Confabulation

343

002 - The Illusion of Knowledge

344

001 - Attention