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The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

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Conformity: The Power of Social Influences

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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

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Changing How We Choose: The New Science of Morality

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The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain

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On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

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The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational

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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

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Expressly Human: Decoding The Language of Emotion

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Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk

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You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

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The Curious Person's Guide to Fighting Fake News

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On Freedom

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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

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How Change Happens

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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

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Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News

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The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights

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The Myths We Live By

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Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

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Our Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy

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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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On Truth

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Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception

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On Dialogue: 2nd Edition

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Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love, Revised Edition: Relationship Repair in a Flash

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

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The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing

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The Lonely Dad Conversations

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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert, Revised and Updated

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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You’re Not the Only One F*cking Up: Breaking the Endless Cycle of Dating Mistakes

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Dad on Pills: Fatherhood and Mental Illness

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The 5 Love Languages

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The Moms Are Not Alright: Inside America's New Parenting Crisis

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8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis

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Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

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Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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Radiolab: The Feels

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

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You're Cute When You're Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism

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Dad at Peace

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Boundaries in Marriage: Understanding the Choices That Make or Break Loving Relationships

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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

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Grow Up: Becoming the Parent Your Kids Deserve

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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

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Boosting Mental Immunity: Andy Norman: “Seek out the difficult, interesting, philosophically rich conversations.”

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Survival of the Friendliest with Brian Hare, PhD: Compared with other animals, dogs are brilliant in one important way: They can understand and communicate with us, their human companions. Brian Hare, PhD, of Duke University, talks about what we know about canine cognition and how studying dogs’...

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224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think: Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying...

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Peter Boghossian: How To Have Impossible Conversations

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What can David Hume teach us?: Scottish philosopher David Hume was an amiable 18th century gentleman - cultured, generous, well liked by all who knew him. And yet he's never quite attained the mythic status of a Socrates or a Nietzsche. Our guest this week believes it's time to embrace Hume as a philosopher who can teach us how to live.

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Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"): David and Tamler hit the books and cram for their beloved Patreon listener-selected episode – this time on Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” David thinks Kuhn is a great sociologist of science but recoils at the relativistic tenor of the final chapters. Tamler loves anything that makes David recoil. Plus, should we give more weight to the advice of people on their deathbed? Or should we nod politely and get back to working for that promotion…

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The Science Of Attraction – With Dr. Geoffrey Miller (Episode 43): Dr. Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist, author, and dating expert, joins our show today!  Geoffrey gives us his best insights on attraction, dating, sex, and much more! He gives us the science and data behind a lot of the common beliefs and myt..

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The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 209 Exploring The Power Of Making Thinking Visible: talks with Ron Ritchhart, Author of The Power of Making Thinking Visible and Creating Cultures of Thinking & Making Thinking Visible and Senior Research Associate at Harvard's Project Zero, about his new book co-authored with Mark Church. ...

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The Meritocracy Trap: Daniel Markovits: “Meritocracy is just an ideological construction designed to make inequality okay, when inequality is not okay.”

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148. Leigh Cowart with Dan Block: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose: Love isn’t the only thing that hurts. Leigh Cowart knows. Eating the world’s hottest pepper hurts. Ballerinas dancing on broken bones hurts. A sideshow performer electrocuting themself hurts. Ultramarathon running, jumping into an icy lake, and...

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377: Randolph Nesse | Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: What possible purpose do anxiety, depression, and anger serve from an evolutionary standpoint? Dr. Randolph Nesse clues us in here!

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Rutger Bregman - "Utopia for Realists" and Big Ideas for an Equitable Economy

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CM 015: Warren Berger on Questions that Prompt Innovation: What if the secret to successful innovation lies in asking ambitious questions, the kinds most of us rarely ask? That is exactly what Warren Berger learned in speaking with some of the most recognized, global leaders in innovation.

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Latest On Boosters; 'Trusted Messengers' Lead Vaccine Outreach: Public health experts say the most effective vaccine outreach comes from local voices who people know and trust.

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202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t: When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right...

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294: Warren Berger - How To Ask More Beautiful Questions: Innovation expert and questionologist WARREN BERGER has studied hundreds of the world’s foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. He is the author of eleven b

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Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset: Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.

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Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015): What are the alternatives to the current neo-liberal cultural settlement prevailing in much of the global north? In To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution (PM Press, 2015), Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt,

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#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos: A Conversation with David Deutsch

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Peter Lunt on Erving Goffman: Erving Goffman has been called the most influential American sociologist of the 20th century (although he was born and did his early studies in Canada) thanks to his study and writing centered on the social interactions of everyday life. In books...

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CM 169: David Livingstone Smith On Resisting Inhumanity: What happens in our minds when we dehumanize others, and how can we resist it? - These are the kinds of questions David Livingstone Smith, author of the book, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It,

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78. Dr. Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes: In his new book, , the U.C. Irvine cognitive scientist Dr. Donald Hoffman challenges the leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And...

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The Knowledge Illusion: Kyle interviews Steven Sloman, Professor in the school of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. Steven is co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone and Causal Models: How People Think about the...

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How to have good arguments with world debate champion Bo Seo: Growing up, Bo Seo avoided arguments at all costs–until he discovered competitive debate.

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42: Human Mating Intelligence: Dr. Glenn Geher