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351 - Megachurches - Hahrie Han
26 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
What have scientists learned about the social infrastructure of megachurches that not only explains their growth but also their resilience, and how can we apply what we've learned to institutions that are not megachurches? Political scientist Hahrie Han joins us to explain why belonging is more important than belief when it comes to the push-pull of top-down and bottom-up within organizations that depend on fractal superstructures of cellular relationships in order to survive internal conflict. Lees meer
Hahrie Han
Undivided
Megachurch Database
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
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350 - Pluralistic Ignorance
12 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. Strange and harmful behavior can follow from the fact that, on certain issues, most people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people believe. Or put another way, pluralistic ignorance is the erroneous belief that the majority is acting in a way that matches its internal philosophies, and that you are one of a small number of people who feel differently, when in reality the majority agrees with you on the inside but is afraid to admit it outright or imply such through its behavior. Everyone in a group, at the same time, gets stuck following a norm that no one wants to follow, because everyone is carrying a shared, false belief about everyone else’s unshared true beliefs. Lees meer
Deborah Prentice’s Website
Robb Willer’s Website
Robb Willer’s Twitter
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
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349 - AI Risk - Jesse Richardson
28 september 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Jesse Richardson wants to improve our critical thinking about AI risk through the gamification of our rampant speculation. In this episode he explains AI safety isn't just one thing, there are a bunch of different risk profiles and each needs to be considered critically. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Is It Game Over
School of Thought
Jesse Richardson’s Website
Your Bias Is
Your Fallacy Is
Melanie Mitchell on AI Intelligence
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
14 september 2026 · 44 min
We return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an episode of Decoder Ring in which David McRaney shares some insights from his book, How Minds Change, with Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring. Lees meer
Decoder Ring
Decoder Ring's The Dress Page
Willa Paskin's Twitter
CBC Interview with Willa Paskin
Is It Game Over?
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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347 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
31 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real physical experiences) to actually travel to Saturn, Mars, asteroids, and distant stars. Also, we discuss the recent surge in UFO sighting as well as his famous talk at The Amazing Meeting. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Under Alien Skies
Phil Plait's Newsletter
Phil Plait's Substack
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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346 - No Nocebo Effect - Helen Pilcher
17 augustus 2026 · 1 uur
The suffering is real, but the source may not be what you assume. That's the essence of the nocebo effect, the placebo effect's evil twin. As neuroscientist Dr. Helen Pilcher explains, illness is not simply a matter of biology. Our thoughts, conscious or otherwise, can make lead to symptoms in unexpected ways. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Dr. Helen Pilcher
This Book May Cause Side Effects
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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345 - A Pox on Fools - Thomas Levenson
3 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
MIT professor Thomas Levenson, the author of the book A Pox on Fools, takes us through the same repeating patterns throughout history which have led to antivaxxers and vaccine hesitancy since the very first vaccines. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Thomas Levenson
A Pox on Fools
A History of Vaccines
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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344 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter
3 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring psychologist Tenelle Porter telling comedian Chris Duffy how she is researching how to conduct better research into intellectual humility. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
Transcript at TED
How to Be A Better Human
The Gateway Drugs to Intellectual Humility
Tenelle Porter's Research
Tenelle Porter's Website
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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343 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani
6 juli 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It. Lees meer
Matthew Facciani's Website
The Misguided Podcast
Misguided
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney's BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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342 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
22 juni 2026 · 47 min
Tim Harford of the podcast Cautionary Tales sits down with David McRaney to hear a story from David's book, How Minds Change, about how (and why) a prominent conspiracy theorist realized he was wrong. Lees meer
Charlie Veitch was certain that 9/11 was an inside job. The attack on the World Trade Center wasn’t the work of Al-Qaeda, but an elaborate conspiracy. He became a darling of so-called “9/11 truthers” until he actually visited Ground Zero to meet architects, engineers and the relatives of the dead.
The trip changed his mind. His fellow “truthers” did not take Charlie’s conversion well.
Kitted
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Cautionary Tales
Tim Harford
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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341 - Positive Rants - Heather Barnes
8 juni 2026 · 45 min
Communications professor Heather Barnes teaches us how to use what she learned teaching at Second City, managing the Museum of Science and Industry, and taking classes at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science to truly engage with difficult people through the power of positive rants. Lees meer
Kitted
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Heather Barnes
Improv@Work
Second City
The Center for Enlightened Disagreement
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade
25 mei 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
There are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, and chess champion Jennifer Shahade tells us how we can borrow from the best chess players' decision-tree approach to avoid considering every possible option and instead "think sideways" to consider the best choices on the board. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
Jennifer Shahade’s Website
Thinking Sideways
Does chess need intelligence?
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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339 - Enlightened Disagreement
11 mei 2026 · 1 uur 29 min
Northwestern University just launched the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, a real-world institution devoted to "research-backed approaches to cultivating open-mindedness, identifying one’s own cognitive biases, working collaboratively with others despite disagreement and more." Lees meer
In this episode, David McRaney details his time as a resident of the Center, teaching students how to ask questions that activate a person's introspection, and then follow up with questions that evoke a person's motivated reasoning, then keep going until the other side articulates things they may have never considered before, and, in so doing, reveal the deeper motivations and values generating disagreement.
You'll learn about this and all the other modules of the Center's pilot program. You'll also learn about a new game they are designing to improve scientific literacy of news consumers and news creators.
Previous Episodes
How Minds Change
The Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement
Brad Zakarin
Eli Finkel
Nour Kteily
Medill School for Journalism
Patti Wolter
The Center for Public Deliberation
The Listen First Coalition
Better Together America
Heather Barnes
Martin Carcasson
Point Taken
The Visual Thinking Lab
Steven Franconeri
Joshua Greene’s Website
Tango
Tango Quiz Game Research
Love Factually Website
Joshua Hudson
Protein Research
NYT Protein Deep Dive
Tylenol Metastudy
The Garage
Monica Guzman
Braver Angels
Jacqui Banaszynski
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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338 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans (rebroadcast)
27 april 2026 · 40 min
Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School, tells us how to avoid the Ladder of Misinference by examining how narratives, statistics, and articles can mislead, especially when they align with our preconceived notions and confirm what we believe is true, assume is true, and wish were true. Lees meer
Alex Edmans
May Contain Lies
What to Test in a Post Trust World
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Kitted
Patreon
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337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw
13 april 2026 · 1 uur
How is AI reshaping human reasoning? What is cognitive surrender, and how do we avoid its negative impact? What is system three thinking, and how can we get the most out of it? Artificial intelligence researchers Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw have some answers, some questions, and some suggestions. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
Thinking: Fast, Slow, and Artificial
Gideon Nave's Website
Steven D. Shaw's Website
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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336 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth (rebroadcast)
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half the country, you only need 3.5 percent of the population to join – but there are some caveats, and Erica Chenoweth whose research led to the discovery of the 3.5 Percent Rule, explains them to us in this episode. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
Erica Chenoweth's Website
Why Civil Resistance Works (the paper)
Why Civil Resistance Works (the book)
The TED Talk
The Q&A
List of Protests by Size
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Patreon
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335 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
16 maart 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
Therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Align Your Mind, an all-access pass to understanding, befriending, and leading the multiple voices within yourself. Lees meer
Grounded in the latest research on Parts Work and Internal Family Systems, and offering proven techniques from Frank’s clinical practice and personal challenges, this engaging guide is a user manual to your own mind—and presents a road map for finding peace, confidence, and a deeper understanding of who you truly are.
Patreon
Previous Episodes
Britt Frank’s Practice
Align Your Mind Website
Britt Frank’s Instagram
How Minds Change
Newsletter
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's Bluesky
YANSS Twitter
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334 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins (rebroadcast)
2 maart 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tompkins. Matt is the author of The Spectacle of Illusion, a book about the long history of the manipulation of our own magical thinking and how studying deception can help us better understand perception, memory, belief, and more. Lees meer
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Matt Tompkins
The Spectacle of Illusion
Prisoners of Silence
Clever Hans
Wilhelm von Osten
Carl Sagan Quote
Science of Magic Association
Society for Psychical Research
Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
Houdini's Debunking
Newsletter
Patreon
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YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel
16 februari 2026 · 38 min
How can two people watch the same video yet see two different things? How can two people witness the same event but arrive at two different truths about what they witnessed? How can the same evidence lead people to drastically different realities? In this episode, Dr. Jay Van Bavel at NYU explains. Lees meer
Kitted Executive Academy
The Power of Us Website
They Saw A Game
Jay Van Bavel’s Twitter
Jay Van Bavel’s Website
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
Newsletter
Patreon
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332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)
2 februari 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true. Lees meer
Our guests are three of the scientists exploring a newly named cognitive distortion, one that every human being is prone to exhibiting, one that is so common and so easily provoked that nefarious actors depend on it when distributing disinformation and propaganda.
Samuel Woolley, Katie Joseff, and Michael Schwalbe will share their methods, findings, and takeaways. They will also explain the troublesome nature of something they are calling concordance over truth bias – a distortion that most often appears in those who have the most (undeserved) confidence in their own (not-so-objective) objectivity.
- How Minds Change
- Show Notes
- Newsletter
- David McRaney's BlueSky
- David McRaney’s Twitter
- YANSS Twitter
- Why Do We Share Our Feelings With Others?
- Concordance Over Truth Bias
- Samuel Wooley
- Katie Joseff
- Michael Schwalbe
- Geoffrey Cohen
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331 - Wicked Problems - Martin Carcasson
19 januari 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Dr. Martin Carcasson tells us how he, as the Director of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State, trains people how to facilitate deliberation and overcome wicked problems so that they can "spark processes that are particularly designed to avoid triggering the worst in human nature and tap into the best." Lees meer
Kitted Executive Academy
The Center for Public Deliberation
The Listen First Coalition
Better Together America
Martin Carcasson
The Toulmin Model
Wicked Problems
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
Newsletter
Show Notes
Patreon
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330 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger (rebroadcast)
5 januari 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
Warren Berger has made a career out of classifying, categorizing, and making sense of the many varieties of questions that we ask and in this episode he explains how we can ask more beautiful questions that can lead to all manner of better outcomes. Lees meer
Warren Berger's Website
Warren Berger's Twitter
A More Beautiful Question
Carl Sagan on Asking Questions
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Sky Is Blue
The Real Reason the Sky is Blue
How Does Rayleigh Scattering ACTUALLY Work? (The Blue Sky)
Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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329 - Point Taken - Steven Franconeri
22 december 2025 · 52 min
Dr. Steven Franconeri explains the powerful insights and opportunities offered by a game he and his team created for having better disagreements about just about anything, but especially about the sort of topics that often lead to arguments, fights, and terrible holiday dinners. Lees meer
Kitted Executive Academy
Point Taken
The Visual Thinking Lab
Steven Franconeri
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast)
8 december 2025 · 1 uur 11 min
We sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, a world-class geometer, who takes us on a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything Lees meer
His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.
Kitted Executive Academy
Jordan Ellenberg’s Website
Jordan Ellenberg’s Academic Website
Jordan Ellenberg’s Twitter
Shape
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene
24 november 2025 · 1 uur 19 min
Philosopher, neuroscientist, and psychologist, Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem, and in so doing created a way to encourage people to contribute to charities that do the most good, and, in addition, play quiz games that can reduce polarization and possibly save democracy. Lees meer
Kitted Executive Academy
Pods Fight Poverty
Give Directly
Giving Multiplier
Joshua Greene's Website
Moral Tribes
The Trolley Problem in Real Life
A Buddhist Monk Faces The Trolley Problem
Alief vs Belief
Tango
Tango Quiz Game Research
Charitable Giving Research
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman
10 november 2025 · 46 min
We sit down with Dr. Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose new book, The Origin of Language, presents a completely new and fascinating theory for how language emerged in homo sapiens, in human beings, in you and me and the rest of us. Lees meer
Madeleine Beekman
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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325 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two (rebroadcast)
27 oktober 2025 · 58 min
In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavior. She’s also the co-host of a podcast about activism called "What Do We Want?" and she wrote a book titled Don’t Talk About Politics which is about how to discuss politics without necessarily talking about politics. Lees meer
Sarah Stein Lubrano's Website
Sarah Stein Lubrano's Substack
Sarah Stein Lubrano's Twitter
Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
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324 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part One (rebroadcast)
13 oktober 2025 · 58 min
In this episode, the story of a doomsday cult who predicted the exact date and circumstances of the end of the world, and what happened when that date passed and the world did not end. Lees meer
Also, we explore our drive to remain consistent via our desire to reduce cognitive dissonance. When you notice you’ve done something you believe is wrong, then you will either stop doing that thing or stop believing it is wrong. And if you believe something is true but you come across some information that disconfirms that belief, you’ll either change your belief, challenge the validity of the challenging information, or go looking for confirmation you were right all along.
Previous Episodes
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Show Notes
Newsletter
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323 - Job Therapy - Tessa West (rebroadcast)
29 september 2025 · 55 min
Are you unhappy at your job? Are you starting to consider a change of career because of how your current work makes you feel? Do you know why? Lees meer
According to our guest in this episode, Dr. Tessa West, a psychologist at NYU, if you are currently contemplating whether you want to do the work that you do everyday you should know that although this feeling is common, psychologists who study this sort of thing have discovered that our narratives for why we feel this way are often just rationalizations and justifications.
In fact, it turns out that the way we psychologically evaluate the jobs we think we might not want to do anymore is nearly identical to how we evaluate romantic relationships we feel like we might no longer want to be a part of. The feelings are usually undeniable, but our explanations for why we feel the way we feel can be wildly inaccurate, and because of that, our resulting behavior can be, let’s say, sub-optimal. We sometimes stay far longer than we should or make knee-jerk decisions we later regret or commit to terrible mistakes that could have been avoided.
Job Therapy
Tessa West's Website
Tessa West's Twitter
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Kitted Shop
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322 - Intellectual Humility - Tenelle Porter
15 september 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring psychologist Tenelle Porter telling comedian Chris Duffy how she is researching how to conduct better research into intellectual humility. Lees meer
Previous Episodes
Transcript at TED
How to Be A Better Human
The Gateway Drugs to Intellectual Humility
Tenelle Porter's Research
Tenelle Porter's Website
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast)
1 september 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she recounts how, after she gained fame and success as a NYT bestselling author, her world came apart. Then an anti-anxiety-drug-induced manic state nearly ended her life. Lees meer
988
Suicide Prevention Month
Kelly Williams Brown's Website
Easy Crafts for the Insane
Kelly's Twitter
Kelly's Instagram
Kelly in Vanity Fair
Gratitude Journaling Study
Seneca on Being Wretched
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
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320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani
18 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It. Lees meer
Matthew Facciani's Website
The Misguided Podcast
Misguided
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney's BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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319 - Love Factually - Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick
4 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 6 min
Two psychologists who study love, relationships, and human mating behavior pick apart the movie "The Notebook" and tell us what it gets right and what it gets wrong when it comes to portraying how humans actually, truly think, feel, and behave. Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick are the cohosts of the Love Factually podcast, a show that discusses the romantic/scientific accuracy of movies, and on this episode we listen in as they examine one of the most popular romance movies of all time. Lees meer
Love Factually Website
Love Factually Substack
Eli Finkel's Website
Paul Eastwick's Website
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney's BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
Patreon
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318 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
21 juli 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there's a well-researched psychological framework that includes a term for when you have a stated, known goal – a change you'd like to make in your life – something you wake up intending to finally do or get started doing, but then don't do while knowing full well you are actively not doing what you ought and wish you had done by now. After we discuss this phenomenon and how to deal with it, we get into procrastination and how to escape all manner of dead-end behavioral loops. Lees meer
The Getting Unstuck Workbook
The Science of Stuck
Kitted Shop
The Story of Kitted
How Minds Change
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YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
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317 - Don't Talk About Politics - Sarah Stein Lubrano
7 juli 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it comes to polarization and faulty discourse because the good news is that we don't just know, scientifically, why the marketplace of ideas is currently failing us, we know how, scientifically, we can do better. Lees meer
Sarah Stein Lubrano's Website
Don't Talk About Politics
Motivated Numeracy Paper
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
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316 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy (rebroadcast)
23 juni 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us how to create institutions, businesses, and other groups of humans that can better support collaboration, innovation, performance, and wellbeing. We also learn how, even if you know all about the growth mindset, the latest research suggests you not may not be creating a culture of growth despite what feels like your best efforts to do so. Lees meer
Mary Murphy’s Website
Cultures of Growth
Carol Dweck at Google
Paper: A Culture of Genius
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
Newsletter
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315 - May Contain Lies - Alex Edmans
9 juni 2025 · 40 min
Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School, tells us how to avoid the Ladder of Misinference by examining how narratives, statistics, and articles can mislead, especially when they align with our preconceived notions and confirm what we believe is true, assume is true, and wish were true. Lees meer
Alex Edmans
May Contain Lies
What to Test in a Post Trust World
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Kitted
Patreon
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314 - Fluke - Brian Klaas (rebroadcast)
26 mei 2025 · 54 min
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, and get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived (once one finally accepts the power and influence of randomness, chaos, and chance). In addition, we learn not to fall prey to proportionality bias - the tendency for human brains to assume big, historical, or massively impactful events must have had big causes and/or complex machinations underlying their grand outcomes. It’s one of the cognitive biases that most contributes to conspiratorial thinking and grand conspiracy theories, one that leads to an assumption that there must be something more going on when big, often unlikely, events make the evening news. Yet, as Brian explains, events big and small are often the result of random inputs in complex systems interacting in ways that are difficult to predict. Lees meer
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Brian Klaas
Fluke
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney’s BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
Kitted
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313 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth
12 mei 2025 · 59 min
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half the country, you only need 3.5 percent of the population to join – but there are some caveats, and Erica Chenoweth whose research led to the discovery of the 3.5 Percent Rule, explains them to us in this episode. Lees meer
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Erica Chenoweth's Website
Why Civil Resistance Works (the paper)
Why Civil Resistance Works (the book)
The TED Talk
The Q&A
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
David McRaney's BlueSky
YANSS Twitter
YANSS Facebook
Newsletter
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312 - Chaos and Complexity - Neil Theise (rebroadcast)
28 april 2025 · 1 uur
Professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, provides an introduction to the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, to ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that "Life, um, finds a way." Lees meer
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Neil Theise's Website
Notes on Complexity
Conway's Game of Life
The Santa Fe Institute
Technosphere
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Newsletter
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311 - Cascades of Change - Greg Satell (rebroadcast)
14 april 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades, details how rapid, widespread change can sweep across groups of people big and small, and how understanding the psychological mechanisms at play in such moments can help anyone looking to create change in a family, institution, or even nation, prepare for the inevitable resistance they will face. Lees meer
• Special Offer From Greg Satell
• Greg Satell's Website
• Greg Satell's Blog
• Greg Satell's Twitter
• Newsletter
• How Minds Change
• David McRaney’s Twitter
• Kitted
• YANSS Twitter
• Show Notes
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310 - Align Your Mind - Britt Frank
31 maart 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
Therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist Britt Frank tells us all about her new book, Align Your Mind, an all-access pass to understanding, befriending, and leading the multiple voices within yourself. Lees meer
Grounded in the latest research on Parts Work and Internal Family Systems, and offering proven techniques from Frank’s clinical practice and personal challenges, this engaging guide is a user manual to your own mind—and presents a road map for finding peace, confidence, and a deeper understanding of who you truly are.
Previous Episodes
Britt Frank’s Practice
Align Your Mind Website
Britt Frank’s Instagram
How Minds Change
Newsletter
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David McRaney's Bluesky
YANSS Twitter
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309 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell (rebroadcast)
17 maart 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The prevailing wisdom, before their landmark research went viral (in the way things went viral in the 1970s), was that human beings were, for the most part, rational optimizers always making the kinds of judgments and decisions that best maximized the potential of the outcomes under their control. This was especially true in economics at the time. The story of how they generated a paradigm shift so powerful that it reached far outside economics and psychology to change the way all of us see ourselves is a fascinating tale, one that required the invention of something this episode is all about: The Psychology of Single Questions. Lees meer
They Thought We Were Ridiculous
Opinion Science
Behavioral Grooves
How Minds Change
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308 - Magical Thinking - Matt Tompkins
3 maart 2025 · 1 uur 19 min
In this episode, the story of Clever Hans, the horse who changed psychology for the better. We also sit down with psychologist and magician Matt Tompkins. Matt is the author of The Spectacle of Illusion, a book about the long history of the manipulation of our own magical thinking and how studying deception can help us better understand perception, memory, belief, and more. Lees meer
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s BlueSky
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Matt Tompkins
The Spectacle of Illusion
Prisoners of Silence
Clever Hans
Wilhelm von Osten
Carl Sagan Quote
Science of Magic Association
Society for Psychical Research
Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
Houdini's Debunking
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307 - Concordance Over Truth Bias
17 februari 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true. Lees meer
Our guests are three of the scientists exploring a newly named cognitive distortion, one that every human being is prone to exhibiting, one that is so common and so easily provoked that nefarious actors depend on it when distributing disinformation and propaganda.
Samuel Woolley, Katie Joseff, and Michael Schwalbe will share their methods, findings, and takeaways. They will also explain the troublesome nature of something they are calling concordance over truth bias – a distortion that most often appears in those who have the most (undeserved) confidence in their own (not-so-objective) objectivity.
- How Minds Change
- Show Notes
- Newsletter
- David McRaney's BlueSky
- David McRaney’s Twitter
- YANSS Twitter
- Why Do We Share Our Feelings With Others?
- Concordance Over Truth Bias
- Samuel Wooley
- Katie Joseff
- Michael Schwalbe
- Geoffrey Cohen
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306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast)
3 februari 2025 · 52 min
This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with very practical advice on how to have productive conversations in a polarized political environment via authentic curiosity about where people’s beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and values come from. It's also about how to learn from those with whom we disagree by establishing the sort of dynamic in which they will eagerly learn from us as well. Lees meer
- How Minds Change
- Show Notes
- Newsletter
- David McRaney's BlueSky
- David McRaney’s Twitter
- YANSS Twitter
- Mónica Guzmán’s Website
- Mónica Guzmán’s Twitter
- I Never Thought of it That Way
- Braver Angels
- My Article on Intellectual Humility
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305 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg (rebroadcast)
20 januari 2025 · 1 uur 17 min
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine who is also the New York Times Bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His new book is Supercommunicators, a practical and approachable guide to what makes great conversations work. In the episode we discuss the science behind what it takes to form a connection with another human being through dialogue, how to generate or nurture a bond, and how to form, repair, and maintain a conversational pipeline through listening and communicating that guarantees reciprocation and understanding. Lees meer
Charles DuHigg's Website
Charles DuHigg's Twitter
Supercommunicators
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
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304 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris (rebroadcast)
6 januari 2025 · 51 min
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others – a new book titled Nobody's Fool. Lees meer
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Dan Simon's Website
Christopher Chabris' Website
Nobody's Fool
Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
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303 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
23 december 2024 · 44 min
In this episode we return to The Dress and the psychological lessons offered by one of the most viral moments in the history of the internet via an episode of Decoder Ring in which David McRaney shares some insights from his book, How Minds Change, with Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring. Lees meer
Decoder Ring
Decoder Ring's The Dress Page
Willa Paskin's Twitter
CBC Interview with Willa Paskin
Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
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302 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger
9 december 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
In this episode we sit down with Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question – and a man who has made a career out of classifying, categorizing, and making sense of all the many varieties of questions we ask, when we are likely to ask them, and how that can lead to all manner of outcomes, some positive, some negative. Lees meer
Warren Berger's Website
Warren Berger's Twitter
A More Beautiful Question
Carl Sagan on Asking Questions
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Sky Is Blue
The Real Reason the Sky is Blue
How Does Rayleigh Scattering ACTUALLY Work? (The Blue Sky)
Kitted
How Minds Change
David McRaney’s Twitter
YANSS Twitter
Show Notes
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