https://www.spreaker-beta.com/show/you-are-not-so-smart_26enSociety & CultureCopyright Saverio Tosihttps://d1botjg6upurv.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker-beta.com/original/b4d40d27487ff227b9e65adb28993025.jpghttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/show/you-are-not-so-smart_26Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:46:30 +0000Saverio TosiSaverio Tosifeeds@spreaker.comYou Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self delusion that explores topics related to cognitive biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies. David McRaney interviews scientists about their research into how the mind works, and then he eats a cookie.falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/104-labels-rebroadcast--1022040www.youarenotsosmart.com]]>ff5d19ee0609d1a026a0543d7721c137Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:35:26 +0000Saverio TosiWe are each born labeled. In moments of ambiguity, those labels can change the way people make decisions about us. As a cognitive process, it is invisible, involuntary, and unconscious – and that’s why psychology is working so hard to understand it....www.youarenotsosmart.com]]>2617falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/103-desirability-bias--1022043www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Dignity Health: www.dignityhealth.org/taketwomins • Blue Apron: www.blueapron.com/yanss]]>726de2e72b7b9107bd7db1792c944057Tue, 06 Jun 2017 02:31:12 +0000Saverio TosiConfirmation bias is our tendency to seek evidence that supports our beliefs and confirms our assumptions when we could just as well seek disconfirmation of those beliefs and assumptions instead. This is such a prevalent feature of human cognition,...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Dignity Health: www.dignityhealth.org/taketwomins • Blue Apron: www.blueapron.com/yanss]]>2074falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/102-weird-science--1022042www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>31b9c5799171b5dc23663025491379aeMon, 22 May 2017 02:26:08 +0000Saverio TosiIs psychology too WEIRD? That's what this episode's guest, psychologist Steven J. Heine suggested when he and his colleagues published a paper suggesting that psychology wasn't the study of the human mind, but the study of one kind of human mind, the...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>1843falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/101-naive-realism-rebroadcast--1022044www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Casper www.casper.com/sosmart - offer code is SOSMART]]>c2a4c820f48cfd3124a9ec19f751d1f1Mon, 22 May 2017 02:23:41 +0000Saverio TosiIn psychology, they call it naive realism, the tendency to believe that the other side is wrong because they are misinformed, that if they knew what you knew, they would change their minds to match yours. According to Lee Ross, co-author of the new...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Casper www.casper.com/sosmart - offer code is SOSMART]]>3394falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/100-the-replication-crisis--1022041www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>dabca0d2c64fd59459ff48fc57fc206fMon, 22 May 2017 02:11:34 +0000Saverio Tosi"Science is wrong about everything, but you can trust it more than anything." That's the assertion of psychologist Brian Nosek, director of the Center for Open Science, who is working to correct what he sees as the temporarily wayward path of...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>2993falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/099-the-half-life-of-facts--1022045www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS - • - The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart - • - Zip Recruiter: www.ziprecruiter.com/notsosmart]]>7649d9a691dfdd46c9ee67b236446837Mon, 22 May 2017 02:07:23 +0000Saverio TosiIn medical school they tell you half of what you are about to learn won't be true when you graduate - they just don't know which half. In every field of knowledge, half of what is true today will overturned, replaced, or refined at some point, and it...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS - • - The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart - • - Zip Recruiter: www.ziprecruiter.com/notsosmart]]>1805falsefullhttps://www.spreaker-beta.com/episode/yanss-098-active-information-avoidance--1022046www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>c681a303b01827ba2666f836c9e211f1Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:18:43 +0000Saverio TosiThe cyberpunks, the Founding Fathers, 19th Century philosophers, and the Enlightenment thinkers - they all looked forward to the world in which we now live, a multimedia psychedelic freakout in which information is free, decentralized, democratized,...www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart SPONSORS • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com | Offer Code = sosmart]]>2357falsefull