Can a new computer-assisted teaching program rid us of the cognitive errors that lead to students believing they suck at math or just aren’t cut out to study science? According to Ulrik Christensen, senior fellow of digital learning at McGraw-Hill Education, yes it can.
Learned helplessness keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it may be to escape. Learn how to defeat this psychological trap, thanks to the work of Martin Seligman.
From Dilbert to Fight Club to Joe Versus the Volcano, the world of white-collar drones and managerial ineptitude has long been a goldmine for parody.
What if you could give yourself a superpower – not Hulk-level strength, not telekinesis, but something realistic, something that added a superhuman ability by taking away a normal human limitation?… Read the rest of the article: LISTEN: Overcoming our irrational and sometimes crippling fear of rejection with Jia Jiang
The power of disclosure can reduce prejudice, shift attitudes, and change minds forever
Author Jon Ronson looks at what happens when we obliterate people for unpopular opinions, off-color jokes, offensive language, and professional faux pas.
In this episode of the You Are Not so Smart Podcast you will hear an excerpt from a lecture I gave at DragonCon2014 all about unlearning, superseded scientific theories, post-hoc… Read the rest of the article: Unlearning, laser eyes, and reptilian false flags
An interview with Danielle Ofri, physician and author of “What Doctors Feel” – a book about the emotional lives of doctors.
Matt Novak and James Burke help us understand why we are to terrible at predicting the future
The last 40 years of memory research strongly suggests the kind of misremembering Williams claims to have suffered is easy to reproduce in our own lives.
Can changing your body, even just for a few minutes, change your mind? Can a psychological body transfer melt away your long-held opinions and unconscious prejudices? Maybe so.
What happened when a naked man literally appeared out of thin air inside a couple’s apartment while they were getting ready for work?
Psychologist Laurie Santos trains monkeys how to use money, and has learned that they attempt to solve the same sort of financial problems humans have attempted.
A growing body of evidence is revealing that our guesses and our confidence in those guesses don’t come from the same place in our minds.
When faced with complex information, why do we turn the volume down on what's hard to quantify ?
It’s likely very easy for you to explain your motivations for going to work. David McRaney is not sure he believes you.
Each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning. By David McRaney
David McRaney explores the sunk cost fallacy, a strangely twisted bit of logic that seems to pop into the human mind once a person has experienced the pain of loss or the ickiness of waste on his or her way toward a concrete goal. It’s illogical, irrational, unreasonable – and as a perfectly normal human being, you act under its influence all the time.
David McRaney explains why placebo buttons surround you, pretending to do your bidding.
Why do Holocaust deniers, young Earth creationists, people who think they’ve lived past lives as famous figures, people who claim they’ve been abducted by aliens, and people who stake their lives on the power of homeopathy believe things that most of us do not? David McRaney investigates.
