Psychology, Behavior & Decision-Making
363: Mick West | How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories
Mick West (@mickwest) is a co-founder and former technical director of Neversoft Entertainment, coder, pilot, Metabunk and Contrail Science founder, and author of Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect. What We Discuss with Mick West: Why people believe — and want to believe — conspiracy theories. The […]
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362: Mark Cuban | Tales from the Shark Side
Mark Cuban (@mcuban) is a Shark Tank investor in over 200 companies, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and author of How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It. What We Discuss with Mark Cuban: The advice Mark is giving his CEOs and founders during these angry, […]
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360: Garry Kasparov | Deep Thinking for Disordered Times
Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist, and author of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins and Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. What We Discuss with Garry Kasparov: The part chess played in promoting Soviet Russian ideology during the Cold […]
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359: Justin Ramsdell | How to Detect and Disarm Pseudoscience
Justin Ramsdell is a clinical psychologist, an expert witness, an assistant professor of forensic psychology at George Mason University, and a veteran pseudoscience detector. What We Discuss with Justin Ramsdell: Why stressed brains don’t make great decisions (especially when there’s no light visible at the end of the tunnel to indicate that there is an […]
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358: Is My Friend Blowing Her IVF Money on Gifts? | Feedback Friday
Your friend wants to be a mother more than anything, but says she and her husband can’t afford the IVF it would take to make this possible. On the other hand, she habitually buys expensive gifts for everyone in your social circle. Is there any socially acceptable way for you to have a conversation with […]
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357: Robin Dreeke | Sizing People Up
Robin Dreeke (@rdreeke) is the retired head of The FBI Behavioral Analysis Program and co-author of Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent’s User Manual for Behavior Prediction and The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert’s Five Rules to Lead and Succeed. What We Discuss with Robin Dreeke: People can be relied on to […]
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