Transcript: Richard Nisbett
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Richard Nisbett on Cognition, is below. You can stream and download our full...
MiB: Richard Nisbett on Cognition
This week, we speak with Richard Nisbett professor of social psychology and Co-director of the culture and...
“What is Wrong with These People?”
To hear an audio spoken word version of this post, click here. I published this in 2017 about people whose model of...
Factfulness Rules of Thumb
Source: Gapminder This is a very interesting collection — not so much rules, but a checklist of mental models and...
AARP: Can you still trust the stock market?
I had a long conversation with Jill Schlesinger of AARP regarding the market sell off back in March. We touched on numerous...
Cognitive Biases in the Political Arena
11 Cognitive Biases That Influence Political Outcomes Source: Visual Capitalist Overview: “With the 2020 U.S....
“Unprecedented” Uncertainty
Too Much Uncertainty? The World Has Always Been Like This What’s changed is that many of the self-delusions we use to cope have broken...
BBRG: Too Much Uncertainty? The World Has Always Been Like This
Too Much Uncertainty? The World Has Always Been Like This What’s changed is that many of the self-delusions we use to cope have broken...
MiB: Thought Driven by Motion Not Language
We tend to think of language as a driver of thought, but what if it is something older? Motion has been a part of human thought ever...
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
I am utterly fascinated by the concept of metacognition — how we evaluate and measure our own skills and abilities. This is the...