Category: Science of Everyday Thinking

Episode 8: Extra Ordinary Claims

“See it in action … Conversation with Susan Blackmore (Part 1) … Can I believe it? … Conversation with Richard Wiseman … The phone always rings when I’m in the shower … Conversation with Susan Blackmore (Part 2) … Uncut conversations”

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Episode 3: Know Thyself?

“What makes us happy? … Strangers to ourselves … Conversation with Richard Nisbett (Part 1) … Change someone’s behavior without them knowing … Predicting badly … Pursuit of happiness … Conversation with Richard Nisbett (Part 2) … The interview illusion … Heads or tails? … Heads question … Tails question … 10 questions … On campus … What do you think? … Uncut conversation with Richard Nisbett”

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Episode 1: A Taste 

“A taste of things to come … 25 statements on belief … 18 statements on thinking”

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Episode 2: Illusions 

“Tippity … Do you hear what I hear? … Now hear this … Name that tune … I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before … The fiction of memory”

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Episode 4: Intuition and Rationality

“3 questions … Thinking about thinking … Thinking fast and slow … Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (Part 1) … Pupils and anchors … Celebrity spotting … Availability … Linda the feminist bank teller Meet Rudy … Becoming an expert … Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (Part 2) … In a nutshell … Uncut conversation with Daniel Kahneman”

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Episode 5: Learning to Learn

“How to boost learning … Conversation with John Dunlosky … The effect of spacing … Conversation with Bob Bjork (Part 1) … Learn by doing … Conversation with Bob Bjork (Part 2) … Desirable difficulties … Learning in Think101x … Uncut conversations”

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Episode 6: The Experiment

“Science in everyday life … Conversation with Micheal Brenner and Pia Sörenson … Everyday experiments … Conversation with Antonia Mantonakis … Too much and too little wine … Superstitious belief”

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Episode 7: Finding Things Out

“Conversation with the MythBusters (Part 1) … Imperfect predictors … The drift toward mediocrity … The ebb and flow of random events … Smoothing out the lumps … Small classes are better … 6 leads of opinion change … Conversation with the MythBusters (Part 2) … The story so far”

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Episode 11: Exploit the Situation

“Honesty and a helping hand … The weakness of personality … Conversation with Ross and Nisbett (Part 1) … The strength of the situation … Conversation with Ross and Nisbett (Part 2) … The fundamental shift … Conversation with Ross and Nisbett (Part 3) … Shaping behavior … Uncut conversation with Lee Ross … Uncut conversation with Richard Nisbett”

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Episode 12: Change the World

“Bringing it all together … Improve your everyday thinking …  Make it happen … How to change the world”

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