Explanations That Are Often Wrong Part II

This episode features:


-Can political symbols change political beliefs?


-What makes pseudoscience appealing


-How to evaluate futurism


-How do chronically accessible concepts change our perception


-How to think about the complexity of theories


-Priming: fact or fiction?


-Can barely-noticeable changes in the environment have big
effects on behavior?


 


Full transcript


 


-References-


Unapplied Rationality:


Carter, T. J., Ferguson, M. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2011). A
single exposure to the American flag shifts support toward
Republicanism up to 8 months later. Psychological science, 22(8),
1011-1018.


Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams Jr, R. B.,
Bahník, Š., Bernstein, M. J., ... & Cemalcilar, Z. (2014).
Investigating variation in replicability. Social psychology.


Pinker, S. (1997). How the mind works. New York, NY: W.W. Norton
& Co.


Sperber, R. D., McCauley, C., Ragain, R. D., & Weil, C. M.
(1979). Semantic priming effects on picture and word processing.
Memory & Cognition, 7(5), 339-345.


Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions


Check This Rec:


Wrangham, R. (2009). Catching fire: How cooking made us human.
Basic Books.


 


Announcement:


I will not be releasing episodes in December.  The next
episode will come out in January.