You Are Not So Smart youarenotsosmart.com

YANSS 319 – What movies often get wrong about romantic love, relationships, and human mating in general

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YANSS 318 – How to cross the gap between what you intend to do and what you tend to do instead

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YANSS 317 – How to reimagine the marketplace of ideas by changing how, if, and when we talk about politics

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YANSS 316 – How to avoid cultures of genius and create cultures of growth at work, at home, and everywhere else the “fixed mindset” holds us back

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YANSS 315 – How to avoid the Ladder of Misinference and other ways to apply critical thinking in a world of increasingly sophisticated misinformation machines

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YANSS 314 – How not to fall prey to proportionality bias (and other ways to form a healthy relationship with chaos)

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YANSS 313 – Why the number of people needed to make a protest movement successful is much lower than you might assume

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YANSS 312 – An introduction to complexity science, chaos theory, and how life, um, finds a way

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YANSS 311 – How to encourage widespread cascades of rapid change across large groups of people

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YANSS 310 – How parts work can lead to better conversations, arguments, and debates with yourself and others (but most of all yourself)

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YANSS 309 – How research into irrational decisions and suboptimal judgments changed psychology (and everything else) forever

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YANSS 308 – The science of strange beliefs and how our propensity for magical thinking can lead us to deceive each other by first deceiving ourselves

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YANSS 307 – Why resistance to true news that you would rather not believe can be stronger than susceptibility to fake news that you wish was true

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YANSS 306 – How to have more productive conversations in a highly partisan, polarized, and politicized world

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YANSS 305 – How to become a supercommunicator (according to science)

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YANSS 304 – How scammers and con artists exploit your psychological vulnerabilities and what you can to protect yourself

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YANSS 303 – What we can learn about perception, priors, and truth itself from the party dress that sparked a global debate over the nature of reality

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YANSS 302 – How asking the right kinds of questions can lead to innovations, breakthroughs, and discoveries

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YANSS 301 – How our drive to resolve cognitive dissonance can lead us to change our minds, accept our fates, and become very, very wrong

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YANSS 300 – Why cults often grow stronger after their beliefs, predictions, assumptions, and leaders all turn out to be wrong

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