The notion that we have real intrinsic preferences has been dismantled. The concept of a single personality which every one of us supposedly possesses has been brought down in pieces. So what remains? Find out in this last episode in the minise

Confrontation – How Deep is the OCEAN: Personality and Its Hidden Depths

Aug 22nd, 2019 21m 16s

You are who you are. In our ideal scenario of consistency, a person has a stable personality. He or she is honest, outgoing, polite, or any of the other innumerable personality traits. That's not a fluke, that's how he or she really is. But doe

Setup - You Don't Always Want What You Want

Aug 8th, 2019 20m 26s

You know what you want. And even more what you don't want. Maybe you know what your family and friends like. Turns out, you're probably mistaken on all three counts. Our preferences are so much influenced by all kinds of context that they can't

Beauty & the Beast – Conceptions of Nature, Goodness, and the Evolutionary Reality

Jul 24th, 2019 21m 39s

Did you ever stand before a meadow filled with life, basking in the sun, and wondered about the beauty of nature? You're not alone. Especially nowadays, far removed from nature as we are, we're prone to idealizing and idolizing nature and and a

Size Does and Doesn’t Matter – Find out Where it Counts

Jul 11th, 2019 17m 45s

What do school classes, cancer prevalence, and journeys have in common? Size! Be it number, proportion, or duration, size matters. Or does it? Taking the association between class size and academic performance as a primary example, this episode

Wind of No Change – Power, Communication, and the Race to Stand Still

Jun 27th, 2019 18m 31s

How do you communicate power and determination so that you are believed? This conundrum lies at the heart of this episode, which takes place in 1989 and beyond. Equipped with game theory and good old psychology, this show will take a close look

The Tullock Spike - or Why Killing You May Make You Safer

Jun 13th, 2019 16m 34s

On September 3rd, 1967, Sweden switched driving lanes, from left to right, in a single day. Not only were there no casualties, 1967 had fewer fatal traffic accidents than the years before or after. Why? And what does the counterintuitive phenom