Why your brain treats “one” as the correct amount, even when it clearly isn’t
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Episode 172: The Bizarreness Effect Is Why Stupid Ideas Spread So Well
The Cognitive Bias That Rewards Weirdness Over Wisdom
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Episode 171: Sweet Talk, Empty Calories: Why We Keep Spewing Verbal Junk Food
We crave the sound of comfort, but it does not mean we are getting any real nourishment.
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Episode 170: Gaslighting: Why Smart, Reasonable People Fall for It
How doubt gets installed in your mind without you noticing
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Episode 169: The Argument Move That Shrinks When You Challenge It (Motte-and-Bailey)
How people defend bad ideas without ever defending them with the motte-and-bailey fallacy.
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Episode 168: Why In The Moment You’re Certain, You’ve Probably Stopped Thinking
Naïve realism explains why disagreement feels like stupidity, compromise feels like weakness, and “the facts” always seem to be on your side.
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Episode 167: Why The Smartest Person in the Room Is Usually the Easiest to Steer
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Episode 166: Why Smart People Have Stupid Beliefs
Why smart people have stupid beliefs and why intelligence doesn’t protect you from conspiracy thinking
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Episode 166: Are you an Accountability Hypocrite?
Why leaders who demand it rarely live it
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Episode 165: The Exception Doesn’t Prove the Rule
How a misused phrase lets people dodge uncomfortable truths
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