Behavioral Grooves Podcast
430 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsStories, science and secrets from the world’s brightest thought-leaders. Behavioral Grooves is the podcast that satisfies your curiosity of why we do what we do. Explanations of human behavior that will improve your relationships, your wellbeing, and your organization by helping you find your groove.
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The Behavioral Science Books We Just Couldn’t Put Down in 2021 With Louise Ward
December 26, 2021 09:03 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBWhat a year for books 2021 has been! It seems like authors, editors and publishers have all been working overtime this year to bring us some incredible new content. Books that have challenged our beliefs, calmed our anxieties and transformed our habits. To help us with the mammoth job of summarizing the best behavioral science books from 2021, we are joined by the incredible Louise Ward, who has read over 100 books this year! Louise is the co-host of the Behavioural Science Club, a LinkedI...
More Than Just A Checklist: How to Effectively Apply Behavioral Science | Torben Emmerling
December 19, 2021 09:03 - 55 minutes - 126 MBApplying Behavioral Science insights at work takes more than just another checklist or document, it’s about creating an environment that enables people to make good decisions. Torben Emmerling specializes in innovative, evidence-based strategies for behavior change. We discuss with him the nuances that differentiate applied behavioral science from academic behavioral science. As a consultant for both private and public organizations, Torben doesn’t focus on a specific industry. Instead, he...
Our Love Of Music And The Influence Of The Pandemic With Mark Thorley
December 12, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 140 MBWhere and how we listened to music shifted during the pandemic. But the music industry itself had to quickly adapt in 2020 to how music was recorded and produced. Our very musical conversation with guest Mark Thorley delves into the changes that COVID brought to remote working and how people’s relationships with music have changed in recent months. There is no greater joy for Tim than discussing music with our guests, and you can see from the musical links on this episode, that our conversa...
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December 09, 2021 17:09 - 2 minutes - 3.53 MBHabit Weekly, a wonderful organization founded by Samuel Salzer, is asking people to weigh in on their favorite podcast by casting a vote at https://www.habitweekly.com/awards. Kurt and Tim are asking for your vote since you (and lots of other people) voted for Behavioral Grooves in 2021 making it the Number One Behavioral Science Podcast in 2021. We’d like to maintain that spot in the upcoming year and all we need is your vote. It takes less than 10 seconds. With more than 260 episodes ...
Trust: The Four Key Steps to Genuinely Build It | Sandra Sucher
December 05, 2021 10:52 - 1 hour - 148 MBIn 2021, people started to trust business organizations more than governments, NGOs or the media, according to global research by the Edelman Trust Baraometer. The Covid pandemic has seen people around the globe question their trust in all forms of leadership. What impact does this have on business leaders? Can organizations rebuild trust? What are the building blocks of trust? Sandra Sucher, co-author of “The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It” (https://amzn.to/3pny...
Focus More on HOW to Think, and Less on WHAT to Think | Dr. Howard Rankin PhD
November 28, 2021 09:09 - 1 hour - 156 MBIf we are open minded, we challenge our beliefs and accept that our thinking can, at times, be misguided. After all, our thoughts are merely a function of our personal habits, experiences and internal communication. Dr Howard Rankin PhD encourages us to recognize the value of critical thinking, and become more aware of our own consciousness. To conclude our November series on Conspiracy Theories, our guest on this episode, Dr. Howard Rankin PhD, talks about how our consciousness has been co...
Need a Laugh to Get Through Your Workday? Dan Hill
November 24, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBNeed some respite from the work day grind? Join the fun on this episode for a light-hearted take on workplace humor. Dan Hill delivers a real tongue-in-cheek take on the corporate lingo and jargon that infiltrates our workplaces. But with every joke he makes, there is a pang of truth: “emojis; the feelings you would be having at work if they were allowed.” Dan’s new book; “Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo” (https://amzn.to/3nB3hYB) is written in collaboration with over 50 co...
Feeling Fearful: Why People Seek Out Conspiracy Theories | Eric Oliver
November 21, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 157 MBWhat makes us more likely to believe in conspiracy theories? Can our religious beliefs or political affiliations determine whether we're less likely to believe in scientific facts? Why are health conspiracy theories some of the most widely believed notions? We revisit a conversation with Eric Oliver who talks us through the factors that drive people towards conspiracy theories. Eric Oliver, PhD is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Although the majority of his wo...
Why We Are More Vulnerable To Harmful Conspiracy Theories Than We Think | Andy Norman
November 14, 2021 09:03 - 59 minutes - 135 MBMisinformation is like a virus, spreading quickly and propagating in a way that doesn’t benefit its host. Andy Noman describes harmful ideas as acting like “mind parasites” that deploy clever tactics to infect our thinking by circumventing our mental immune systems. And we’re even more susceptible to bad ideas than we realize. So how do we immunize ourselves against mind parasites? Can we reach herd immunity? Can we critically think our way out of this epidemic of unreason? After 30 years ...
Conspiracy Theories: How To Talk to A Science Denier | Lee McIntyre
November 07, 2021 10:57 - 1 hour - 201 MBHow do you respond to someone who says “the earth is flat” or “Covid is a hoax”? Before we can try and reason with conspiracy theorists, we must first understand the reason they have ventured down that path. Lee McIntyre has spent years researching science deniers and has found a common set of traits in their behavior. He also argues that we shouldn’t sit back and assume conspiracy theories are harmless. Find out more from Lee in this episode about how to talk with science deniers and how ev...
Conspiracy Theories: Hidden Brain‘s Shankar Vedantam | The Delusion of Nations
November 03, 2021 09:03 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBHost of Hidden Brain podcast, Shankar Vedantam talks with us about the powers: both useful and harmful, of our delusional thinking. Nations are an example of useful delusions; they are an entirely human-made construct, yet they can present us with a unifying, shared identity. There is a tipping point, however, at which our beliefs can become harmful to someone else. Shankar defines conspiracy theories as a particular type of self deception which can easily escalate into harmful behavior. ...
Halloween Special: Grooving on Scary Biases
October 31, 2021 09:03 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBListen to Kurt and Tim’s spooky Halloween Special about some common biases that can seem a bit scary. But don’t fear, the scariest thing about this episode is actually Kurt and Tim’s jokes! Find out why some biases are a bit spooky, what makes us susceptible to them, and most importantly how we can overcome them. Thanks for taking the time to learn a bit about how to overcome the biases you may find impacting your life. If you’d like to support our work further, please consider donating a ...
Why Does Rude Behavior Really Bother Us So Much? | Trevor Foulk PhD
October 27, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBRudeness is contagious, in a similar way to a virus. When experiencing a rude encounter, our brain perceives it like a threat. And once we’ve tuned in to this low-level threat, we’re more likely to notice it around us, and therefore more likely to display rude behavior ourselves. Our guest on this episode is Dr Trevor Foulk PhD, Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland. His well published research on deviant workplace behaviors and workplace power dynam...
Helping People To Assemble Better Decisions | Eric J. Johnson
October 24, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 179 MBHow do we make decisions? What factors influence the final outcome? Do default settings change our preferences? Every decision we make; from choosing something on a menu to deciding whether to be an organ donor, is influenced by our environmental context and the default selections presented to us. Professor Eric J. Johnson has distilled the latest behavioral science research into his newest book, The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters, and we are thrilled to talk with him ab...
Anxiety at Work: Why We Feel It and How To Manage It | Chester Elton
October 17, 2021 08:57 - 1 hour - 148 MBAnxiety in the workplace has always been present, even pre-pandemic but rates of anxiety, particularly among young employees, have worsened since 2020. So what obligation do organizations have to their employees' mental health? How can managers recognize the signs of anxiety, and how can we help our colleagues with those feelings? Following our incredibly popular first episode with Chester Elton in July 2021, on showing gratitude (episode 238), we are thrilled to be talking with him again a...
The 5 Healthy Brain Habits Of A Neuroscientist | Dr Daniel Almeida
October 10, 2021 09:03 - 59 minutes - 136 MBWhat life habits keep our brain healthy? How does our mind respond to trauma? And why does the way we talk about suicide and mental health make such a difference to those who are struggling? We discuss all these topics with neuroscience researcher Dr Daniel Almeida. To mark World Mental Health Day on Sunday, Oct 10, 2021, we decided to delve into the science behind mental health. And who better to help us with this topic than Daniel who has been named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in science...
Money Does Boost Happiness, But Not The Way We Think It Does | Daniel Crosby
October 03, 2021 09:03 - 57 minutes - 131 MBThe clearest indicators of our financial solvency are based on the behaviors we exhibit with our investments. Dr. Daniel Crosby PhD is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert, asset manager and bestselling author of four books including “The Behavioral Investor”: https://amzn.to/3Bl4s3t. We examine with him the question of whether financial success ultimately brings us happiness? Surprisingly it can, but not in the ways that we think it does. Having studied the growing list of 200 odd be...
Why You Don‘t Need to be Powerful to be Influential | Vanessa Bohns
September 26, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 157 MBTo be influential you do not require power, but wielding your influence is powerful. Vanessa Bohns, social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, joins us to discuss her enticing new book “You Have More Influence Than You Think”: https://amzn.to/39vCDIN. She draws from her research to illustrate why underestimating our influence can lead us to miss opportunities or worse yet, to misuse our power. Vanessa challenges us to examine our powers of persuasion...
Leading Human™: How to Avoid Burnout and Create a Positive Organization
September 19, 2021 09:03 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBEmployee burnout, The Great Resignation, Office Covid Regulations; these are all major concerns for leaders in the workplace right now. But how can managers successfully navigate these stresses, while still maintaining productivity among staff? At the start of the pandemic, Behavioral Grooves began a series of podcasts with researchers and practitioners to understand the organizational shifts we were seeing. Over the course of our interviews, we discovered big changes in the way business wa...
Kwame Christian: On Compassionate Curiosity, Social Justice Conversations, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch [Republish Episode 178]
September 12, 2021 09:04 - 1 hour - 111 MB[NOTE: This episode is republished from #178 in October 2020.] Kwame Christian, Esq. is the author of “Nobody Will Play With Me: How to Use Compassionate Curiosity to Find Confidence in Conflict.” He is the host of two podcasts, “Negotiate Anything” and “Ask With Confidence.” He is a professor at The Ohio State University Law School and is the director of the American Negotiation Institute. Kwame’s educational background combines an undergraduate degree in psychology, a masters in public po...
Vaccinating the World: How Behavioral Science Helps. With Michael Coleman
September 05, 2021 08:41 - 55 minutes - 126 MBHow can behavioral science aid the mammoth task of vaccination the world against Covid? What common barriers cause vaccine hesitancy in populations around the globe? And how can behavioral design overcome them? Born out of frustration, while trying to eliminate Polio from Pakistan, the global behavioral design agency Common Thread (www.gocommonthread.com) was born. They use findings from psychology, anthropology, economics and sociology, to identify and analyze behavioral insights. Bringin...
Can People Learn to be Better at Thinking? With Richard E. Nisbett
August 29, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 104 MBFew psychologists in the world have contributed more to scientific discovery than our guest Richard E. Nisbett. He joins us to discuss his latest book, the title of which embodies one of his favorite activities: Thinking: A Memoir. Thinking weaves Richard’s personal story through his research journey, painting a richer sense of the thought process behind his discoveries. Richard E. Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Michigan...
Do We Control Situations or Do Situations Control Us? With John Bargh
August 22, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 106 MBCan we control our unconscious behavior? How much does the situation we’re in control us? Can we prime people to behave a certain way? Is it even ethical to try? To what degree do cultural identity and stereotyping impact the automaticity of our actions? Following on from our discussion with Dr Philip Zimbardo PhD, in our last episode (#247) about the Stanford Prison Experiment, we reached out to our friend and previous guest (episode #155), Dr John Bargh PhD, social psychologist at Yale Un...
Stanford Prison Experiment, 50 Years On: What Have We Really Learnt? With Dr Philip Zimbardo
August 15, 2021 09:03 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBThe Stanford Prison Experiment has been the topic of movies, newspaper articles, textbooks and TV shows. Extensively published controversy has surrounded the social psychology experiment ever since it was conducted in 1971. Now on the 50th Anniversary, we invite you to listen to a very unique interview with the man who orchestrated it all; Dr Philip Zimbardo PhD. Was the Stanford Prison Experiment designed to measure the corruption of power? Were participants influenced by the context of...
[INTERVIEW] Are You More Honest with Google or Your Friends? With Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
August 08, 2021 09:20 - 1 hour - 140 MBThe truth is we divulge more information to Google that we do to our friends, our family or even our doctors. Our social media persona can paint a very different picture to what we secretly search for on Google. So what do search trends in Google tell us about ourselves and our society? Does it matter that we are different on Google than in person? Author of bestseller Everybody Lies (https://amzn.to/32ULlgD), Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, tells us how data can unlock the keys to happier relat...
[INTERVIEW] Are You More Honest with Google or Your friends? With Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
August 08, 2021 09:20 - 1 hour - 140 MBThe truth is we divulge more information to Google that we do to our friends, our family or even our doctors. Our social media persona can paint a very different picture to what we secretly search for on Google. So what do search trends in Google tell us about ourselves and our society? Does it matter that we are different on Google than in person? Author of bestseller Everybody Lies (https://amzn.to/32ULlgD), Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, tells us how data can unlock the keys to happier relat...
[GROOVING SESSION] Are You More Honest with Google or Your Friends? With Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
August 08, 2021 09:05 - 30 minutes - 69.7 MBThis follow-up episode is a free-flowing Grooving Session where Tim and Kurt chat about their discussion with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Episode 246). You’re more than welcome to listen to this as a stand alone episode, but we recommend first tuning in to our interview with Seth, and then joining us here for some banter about Seth’s work. Questions we discuss: Are we more likely to be untruthful in certain contexts? Is lying a useful delusion? Can we ever justify lies? How do the co...
[GROOVING SESSION] Are You More Honest with Google or Your friends? With Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
August 08, 2021 09:05 - 30 minutes - 69.7 MBThis follow-up episode is a free-flowing Grooving Session where Tim and Kurt chat about their discussion with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Episode 246). You’re more than welcome to listen to this as a stand alone episode, but we recommend first tuning in to our interview with Seth, and then joining us here for some banter about Seth’s work. Questions we discuss: Are we more likely to be untruthful in certain contexts? Is lying a useful delusion? Can we ever justify lies? How do the co...
[INTERVIEW] Does Money Really Make You Happy? The Research with Johannes Haushofer
August 01, 2021 09:22 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBWhat link is there between happiness and income? Does winning the lottery make you happier? What does the research say about poverty and our mental health? Our guest on this episode has researched the psychological effects money has on our wellbeing and on our society. Johannes Haushofer is the Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University and has taught at Princeton University for the past six years. Johannes realized that not enough research on these topics has been conducte...
[GROOVING SESSION] Does Money Really Make You Happy? The Research with Johannes Haushofer
August 01, 2021 09:05 - 25 minutes - 57.9 MBKurt and Tim discuss the links between poverty and mental health, how higher income is linked to better well-being, and the idea of a Universal Basic Income. This is a free-flowing discussion delving into the insights from their most recent interview with Johannes Haushofer (episode #244), Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. While you are welcome to listen to this episode as a stand-alone, we recommend you download our interview with Johannes first before joining us her...
[INTERVIEW] Smart Behavioral Economics Secrets Every Marketer Needs with Melina Palmer
July 25, 2021 10:40 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBWhat does your customer want but can’t tell you? What effective marketing techniques use behavioral economics? If only you had a way of understanding how your customer’s brain made decisions. Well our guest, Melina Palmer sits down to discuss exactly that. Melina Palmer is the founder of The Brainy Business, which provides behavioral economics consulting to businesses of all sizes from around the world. She also hosts a podcast, The Brainy Business, and has recently published her first boo...
[GROOVING SESSION] Smart Behavioral Economics Secrets Every Marketer Needs with Melina Palmer
July 25, 2021 10:32 - 24 minutes - 55.9 MBHow can your organization improve its marketing messaging using proven behavioral science techniques? As part of our series on Marketing & Employee Engagement this month, we were joined by Melina Palmer on our latest interview episode (#242). Melina Palmer is the founder of The Brainy Business podcast and author of “What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics”: https://amzn.to/36Rm88I. She is an expert on both marketing a...
[INTERVIEW] Why Good, Honest Employees Really Do Steal With Kelly Paxton
July 18, 2021 09:14 - 56 minutes - 130 MBDo honest people steal? Our guest, Kelly Paxton investigates and researches low level crimes such as book-keeping fraud; also known as Pink Collar Crime. She discusses how a hostile work environment and the prospect of financial difficulties at home can lead “good” people to rationalize dishonest behavior. Kelly Paxton is a former federal agent who was used to dealing with “bad guys.” Once she started working embezzlement cases, she quickly realized that honest people steal. The term pink...
[GROOVING SESSION] Why Good, Honest Employees Really Do Steal With Kelly Paxton
July 18, 2021 09:13 - 15 minutes - 36 MBContinuing our series on Marketing and Employee Engagement this month, we were joined by Kelly Paxton on our latest interview episode: Why Good, Honest Employees Really Do Steal With Kelly Paxton (#240). Tim and Kurt discuss their fantastic conversation with Kelly who has authored Embezzlement: How to Detect, Prevent, and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime: https://amzn.to/3i57hN1 and is also the podcast host of Great Women in Fraud: https://podcast.greatwomeninfraud.com/. Kelly investigates an...
Who Makes You Feel Grateful? Tell Them! With Chester Elton
July 14, 2021 09:52 - 1 hour - 140 MBWhen did a colleague last thank you for your work? Managers generally underappreciate their employees, but more importantly, they tend to undervalue the benefits of expressing their gratitude. Best-selling author, speaker and executive coach, Chester Elton has a lighthearted discussion with us about the value of expressing gratitude. What makes gratitude different to recognition? And how do you create a grateful work environment? Chester, along with his co-author, Adrian Gostick, have sold ...
[INTERVIEW] Attention: How to Capture It and Keep It with Ben Parr
July 11, 2021 13:26 - 50 minutes - 116 MBWhat is the science behind capturing people’s attention? And what do you do after you have someone’s attention; what is your intention? Is our attention fleeting and fickle, like a goldfish? Or is it something that can be recaptured and rekindled easily? Our guest today, Ben Parr cleverly uses a great Bonfire Analogy to describe how we ignite, build and rekindle attention. Ben Parr is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, investor, and journalist. He is the author of the best-selling book...
[GROOVING SESSION] Attention: How to Capture It and Keep It with Ben Parr
July 11, 2021 13:24 - 27 minutes - 62.5 MBContinuing our series on Marketing and Employee Engagement this month, we were joined on our latest interview episode (#237) by Ben Parr, author of “Captivology: The Science of Capturing People's Attention” https://amzn.to/3ejByXB. His insights and research have valuable applications in marketing and entrepreneurship. We’re also doing things a little differently this month on Behavioral Grooves. Instead of discussing Ben Parr’s interview in our Grooving Session at the end of the episode, we...
[INTERVIEW] Make Choice Rewarding: Behavioral Insights in Marketing with Matthew Willcox
July 05, 2021 20:34 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBWelcome to our series of episodes on Marketing and Employee Engagement. We'll be sharing insights into how to apply behavioral science in business. And we’ve started the series off with award-winning marketer, Matthew Willcox. He understands the fundamental importance of using behavioral insights to help organizations align with how people choose. He is one of the pioneers of applying behavioral science in marketing. In this episode, Tim and Kurt speak to Matthew about his book The Business...
[GROOVING SESSION] Make Choice Rewarding: Behavioral Insights in Marketing with Matthew Willcox
July 05, 2021 20:33 - 23 minutes - 53.7 MBWe’re doing things a little differently this month on Behavioral Grooves. Instead of discussing Matthew Willcox’s interview in our Grooving Session at the end of the episode, we’ve decided to make it a separate episode. We suggest you listen to Matthew’s interview first (episode #235), and then join us on this episode where we discuss practical applications of Matthew Willcox’s fascinating work. At the start of our series on Marketing and Employee Engagement, Kurt and Tim discuss how we can...
Katy Milkman: How to Make Healthy Habits that Actually Last [GROOVING SESSION]
June 27, 2021 09:17 - 27 minutes - 38.5 MBWe’re doing things a little differently this week. Instead of discussing Katy Milkman’s research at the end of our interview (Episode 232), we’ve decided to make our Grooving Session a separate episode. We suggest you listen to Katy’s interview first in the previous episode, and then join us here where we discuss how Katy's work will help you find your behavior-changing groove! In this Grooving Session we will learn to: Look for the obstacles that are preventing you from adopting new behav...
Katy Milkman: How to Make Healthy Habits that Actually Last [INTERVIEW]
June 27, 2021 09:13 - 48 minutes - 111 MBWe all appreciate a fresh start. Time to start again. A clean slate. Maybe we want to go to the gym more often, eat more vegetables, or read more books. But why do we often fail to maintain our new healthy habits? Our guest today, Katy Milkman PhD, believes that we often focus too much on the final outcome, rather than the steps that will get us there. Thinking about what is going to trigger our actions and what barriers are going to get in the way of our new behavior, are much more effect...
Why We Work At Our Best, When We Feel At Our Best with Larry Senn
June 23, 2021 12:01 - 56 minutes - 130 MBToday's guest is Dr. Larry Senn, PhD, a pioneer in the field of corporate culture. He founded Senn Delaney as a culture shaping firm back in 1978, based on his principle that organizations become shadows of their leaders. Larry works with CEO teams and organizations from top to bottom to create the behaviors needed to support strategies and enhance business results. And he was recently named “The Father of Corporate Culture” by CEO Forum magazine. Larry is also author of The Mood Elevator...
How Good People Fight Bias | Dolly Chugh
June 20, 2021 08:55 - 1 hour - 148 MBDolly Chugh is an award-winning associate professor and social psychologist at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Her research focuses on the “psychology of good people”. How and why most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality.” Dolly sits down with Kurt and Tim on this episode, to talk about the concept of “good-ish” which is a central theme to her book The Person You Mean to Be: How Good Peop...
How Good People Fight Bias with Dolly Chugh
June 20, 2021 08:55 - 1 hour - 148 MBDolly Chugh is an award-winning associate professor and social psychologist at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Her research focuses on the “psychology of good people”. How and why most of us, however well-intended, are still prone to race and gender bias, as well as what she calls “bounded ethicality.” Dolly sits down with Kurt and Tim on this episode, to talk about the concept of “good-ish” which is a central theme to her book The Person You Mean to Be: How Good Peop...
From Holding the Mic to Theory of Mind: Rob Leonard's Love of Language
June 20, 2021 08:38 - 1 hour - 95 MBTalk about a unique career path! From performing at Woodstock before Jimi Hendrix, with his band Sha Na Na, to now being a Forensic Linguist, testifying for infamous court cases, one theme runs throughout the life journey of our guest Rob Leonard; his love of language. Rob Leonard started his unique career as a band member of Sha Na Na, one of only 32 bands who played at Woodstock in August of 1969. He played at the request of Jimi Hendrix and was the last band to go on to perform before J...
Getting to Yes, And...Behavioral Grooves: Two Podcasts in One
June 13, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 190 MBThis episode is a Behavioral Grooves first: we bring you our first ever joint podcast! Mid-way through the episode the tables turn and our guest interviews us! Our guest is the amazing Kelly Leonard, host of the great podcast called “Getting to Yes, And…” presented by Second City Works and WGN in Chicago. This unique conversation with Kelly, Kurt and Tim gives us a glimpse of the people behind the podcasts. It is a light-hearted, raw conversation scattered with some really personal, touching...
Get More from Reading your Favorite Books with Pique founder Bec Weeks
June 06, 2021 08:47 - 53 minutes - 123 MBOn this episode of Behavioral Grooves we chat with the founder of the engaging new app PIQUE. Bec Weeks is a behavioral scientist turned accidental entrepreneur! By joining forces with some of the brightest minds in behavioral science, including partners Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Mike Norton, they have developed an amazing app that accompanies your favorite books. Pique takes users' interests in books to a new level with their slogan: Don't just read the book. DO the book. By ...
The Power of Unity: Robert Cialdini Expands His Best Selling Book Influence
May 30, 2021 09:03 - 1 hour - 182 MBThe GodFather of Influence, Robert Cialdini joins us again on Behavioral Grooves to share his motivation for expanding his bestselling book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (https://amzn.to/3tyCpZ6) which now includes a completely new Seventh Principle of Influence: Unity. This additional principle can help explain our political loyalties, vaccine hesitancy and why media headlines can be so inflammatory. Another motivation for the revised edition to the book is to include more applic...
Behind NOISE and Beyond The Book: Linnea Gandhi Shares her New Course on Noise
May 26, 2021 11:15 - 58 minutes - 134 MBLinnea Gandhi is one of our favorite people to talk with and we had the pleasure of welcoming Linnea back to Behavioral Grooves recently. We last spoke to her in 2018 when she confessed to having a crush on statistics (a crush she clearly still harbors!) Since that time though, she has made a significant contribution to the infamous new book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein (https://amzn.to/3heyr5r). Linnea served as the chief of staff; pro...
Why Is Noise Worse Than Bias? Olivier Sibony Explains
May 23, 2021 08:20 - 1 hour - 117 MBNOISE is set to be the next behavioral science bestseller. Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein and Olivier Sibony describe noise as the unwanted variabilities in our judgments. In our exclusive interview with co-author Olivier Sibony (https://oliviersibony.com/about/) we delve into the fundamentals of noise. What different types of noise are there? Where do we find noise? Why does bias get more attention than noise? And finally, Olivier’s favorite topic; how we can mitigate noise by using decisio...