Opinion Science
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsA show about the psychology of opinions, where they come from, and how they change. Interviews with experts and deep dives into areas of research uncover the basic psychology of persuasion, communication, and public opinion. Hosted by social psychologist, Andy Luttrell.
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SciComm Summer #13: John Sides - Contributing to Political Discussion
August 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBJohn Sides is a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and co-founded The Monkey Cage, which is a popular political science blog now available at the Washington Post. The blog gives academic social scientists a platform to use their expertise to help the public understand political news. In our conversation, John talks about the origins of TMC, the kinds of articles that are successful, and how (and why!) to write well for a public audience. This episode is the final episode in a spec...
SciComm Summer #12: Steve Rathje - Social Science on TikTok
August 22, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBSteve Rathje has managed to rack up more than a million followers on TikTok (@stevepsychology) while pursuing a PhD in social psychology (and doing some very cool research). He shares quick videos about key insights from psychological science that are reaching an entirely new audience. In our conversation, he fills me in on the finer points of TikTok as a platform, why it's uniquely suited to science communication, and how Steve approaches each video to bring insights from social science to ...
SciComm Summer #11: Alie and Micah Caldwell - Building an Independent YouTube Channel
August 15, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBAlie and Micah Caldwell produce the YouTube channel, Neuro Transmissions. Their videos present the basics of neuroscience and psychology in an accessible, engaging way. Alie is a neuroscientist and senior science writer at the University of Chicago Medicine. Micah is a licensed professional clinical counselor. In our conversation, we talk about the origins of Neuro Transmissions, their philosophy of science communication, and their new book. (This episode is a rebroadcast of Opinion Scienc...
SciComm Summer #10: Tim Houlihan & Kurt Nelson - Interviewing Behavioral Scientists
August 08, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBTim Houlihan and Kurt Nelson are the hosts of Behavioral Grooves, which is a wonderful weekly podcast featuring interviews with behavioral scientists and practitioners. For #HotSciCommSummer, I wanted to learn more about how they started their podcast journey, what advice they have for budding podcasters, and what advice they have for academics who are going to be interviewed about their work. This episode is part of a special podcast series on science communication. You can find more info...
SciComm Summer #9: Jesse Thorn - Interviewing
August 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBJesse Thorn hosts the show "Bullseye" on NPR where he interviews people in arts and culture. A few years ago, he interviewed a bunch of incredible interviewers for his podcast, "The Turnaround." He's just the guy to talk to about the craft of interviewing people of note, which is a skill that's called for in lots of science communication efforts. So I was excited to meet Jesse and get his take on interviewing, including some really great tangible tips. This episode is part of a special pod...
SciComm Summer #8: Vanessa Bohns - Writing Books as an Academic
July 25, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBVanessa Bohns is a social psychologist at Cornell University, and last year she release a book for the public: You Have More Influence Than You Think. It's a great book about a program of research she's been working on for year. I wanted to talk to Vanessa about what it was like to translate her research into a format that would be useful and digestible for non-academic audiences. We also talk about why a full-time researcher would take on a project like this, how to actually accomplish it, ...
SciComm Summer #7: Dan Pink - Writing Books
July 18, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBDaniel Pink is a bestselling author who uses social science research to explore big questions about what it means to be human. He’s written seven books, and his newest one came out last February—The Power of Regret. You can also check out his Masterclass on sales and persuasion. In our conversation, Dan gives a look into his writing process. How does he go from an idea for a book to the final product? And how does he draw on social science along the way? This was a super fun chat—check it ou...
SciComm Summer #6: Evelyn Carter - Training and Consulting
July 11, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBEvelyn Carter is a social psychologist who specializes in communicating science-based practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion to organizations. She leads workshops, gives talks, develops courses, gives interviews with the media, and writes newsletters…all of which requires a special skill for making science understandable and actionable. She’s currently the president at Paradigm, which is a company that provides consulting services, workshops, and products that are designed to build or...
SciComm Summer #5: Taylor Scott - Bridging Research and Policy
July 04, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBTaylor Scott is an assistant research professor at Penn State, she's the director of research translation in the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, and she's co-director of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration. In this episode, we talk about the relationship between scientists and policymakers, how to facilitate those interactions, and ultimately what social science research might have to contribute to policy initiatives. If you're a researcher and you're interested in getting involved with...
SciComm Summer #4: David Nussbaum - Writing Op-Eds
June 27, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBDavid Nussbaum is a social psychologist with a keen talent for pitching Op-Eds. He's worked with many social scientists to land articles in major outlets, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, etc. He recently launched a new non-profit organization, Psychgeist Media, which aims to help researchers share their work with the public in an accurate and engaging way. You definitely want to get on their email list because their monthly newsletter is great. In our conve...
SciComm Summer #3: David McRaney - Making Social Science Engaging
June 20, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBDavid McRaney is a writer and podcaster who has been covering important work in psychology for many years. Although he was a guest on Opinion Science a few months ago (Episode 58: How Minds Change with David McRaney), I also used the opportunity to ask him about his process for communicating psychological research to the public. So, the first 15 minutes of this episode is a repeat of his earlier appearance, but the rest of the interview hasn't been released until now. We talk about the chal...
SciComm Summer #2: Meryl Horn - Producing the "Science Vs" Podcast
June 13, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBMeryl Horn is a producer at Science Vs from Gimlet Media and Spotify. Science Vs is a popular science podcast that pits timely claims against scientific evidence. It's a great show. You should listen to it. Before being a podcast producer, Meryl got her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California San Francisco. She shares how she went from being a graduate student to working professionally in science communication. She also breaks down the process of pitching, researching, and com...
SciComm Summer #1: Joss Fong - Producing Science Videos
June 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBJoss Fong is a senior editorial producer at Vox. She produces science videos on a variety of topics, pushing the medium in ever more creative directions to convey interesting and important ideas. We spend a lot of our time talking about her most recent video: "How American conservatives turned against the vaccine" Here are some of the other videos we talked about in this episode: "Does Megalodon still exist? Shark Week debunked" “Are We Automating Racism?” (Glad You Asked series) "The s...
Introducing "Hot SciComm Summer"
May 30, 2022 04:00 - 3 minutes - 2.13 MBSpecial summer series on science communication! Regular Opinion Science episodes will resume in September. Announcing a special podcast mini-series for the summer focused on social science communication. I wanted to talk to a bunch of people who have become experts at communicating research outside of academia through different forms of media. I also wanted to emphasize the unique challenge of social science communication. I felt that a lot of the popular discussions of science communicati...
#63: Why Polls Matter with G. Elliott Morris (ft. Andrew Kozak)
May 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBG. Elliott Morris is a data journalist for The Economist. In July 2022, he’s releasing his first book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them. The book takes a critical look at the history and current use of public opinion polling and the role it plays in democracy. Morris also contributed to The Economist’s 2020 presidential election forecasts. We talk about how he got involved in all of this, sources of error in polling, and the importance of opinion polls. Also in this ...
#63: Why Polls Matter with G. Elliott Morris
May 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBG. Elliott Morris is a data journalist for The Economist. In July 2022, he’s releasing his first book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them. The book takes a critical look at the history and current use of public opinion polling and the role it plays in democracy. Morris also contributed to The Economist’s 2020 presidential election forecasts. We talk about how he got involved in all of this, sources of error in polling, and the importance of opinion polls. Also in this ...
#62: Persuasion via Emotion with Robin Nabi
May 09, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBRobin Nabi is a professor of communication at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She studies how emotional appeals can (and cannot) lead people to change their thoughts and behaviors. She’s published important research on the effects of anger, humor, and guilt, and she’s also developed integrated theories about how emotions can work together in the persuasion process. We talk about all this and more! When we talk about humor and persuasion, we briefly mention Dannagal Young’s prior...
#61: Moral Conviction with Linda Skitka
April 25, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBLinda Skitka is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She's been studying people's moral convictions--the opinions that we connect to our core sense of moral right and wrong. Two people might agree about universal healthcare, for example, but they might disagree about how much their positions on this issue are drawn from their personal moral compass. Over the years, Linda and her colleagues have found that our opinions take on a different character...
#60: "Unconscious" Bias? with Adam Hahn
April 11, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBAdam Hahn spends a lot of time thinking about how well people know their own biases. Sure, people often refer to "implicit bias" as social biases that exist unconsciously. But do they really? How strongly can we claim we're unaware of these attitudes and is there any reason to think people can readily tell you what their gut reactions are when they encounter people of different racial, gender, and religious identities? Adam's a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Universit...
#59: Belief Systems with Mark Brandt
March 28, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBMark Brandt studies a bunch of things. He’s an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University. These days, he’s been exploring how we can think about belief systems as a network of interconnected opinions. Using mathematical simulations that specify how people’s opinions can be connected, Mark and his team have been able to establish a core model that explains a bunch of findings from political psychology. Mark also co-organizes a free online seminar, the Minority Politics O...
#58: How Minds Change with David McRaney (ft. Adam Mastroianni)
March 14, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MBDavid McRaney is an author and host of the podcast You Are Not So Smart. In June, he’s releasing a new book—How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion (you can pre-order it now). In the book, David goes on a wild journey to understand the mechanics of persuasion. He combines research in psychology with stories of persuasion on the ground to arrive at an understanding of when and why people end up changing their opinions. In our conversation, David shares how ...
#57: Media, Norms, and Social Change with Sohad Murrar
February 28, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBSohad Murrar studies how media and norms affect people's opinions about social groups. Does media representation matter? Can infotainment aimed at reducing misconceptions really work? In this episode, Sohad gives us a glimpse into what the research says, her own experiences consulting with Hollywood creatives, and how conveying social norms can be a potent way of addressing prejudice. Also at the top of the show, you'll hear about a radio program from the 1930s: "Americans All--Immigrants A...
#56: Receptiveness to Other Opinions with Julia Minson
February 14, 2022 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBJulia Minson studies the psychology of disagreement. In particular, she's been working to understand what sorts of people are receptive to other opinions and how our perceptions of other people's receptiveness can improve conversations. Dr. Minson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of government. Some things that come up in this episode: StoryCorps and the One Small Step initiative (the clip at the beginning of the episode is from "Family Politics") F...
#55: Stereotypes at the Intersection with Chris Petsko
January 31, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBChris Petsko studies which stereotypes come to mind in a given moment. He's a social psychologist and postdoctoral scholar at Duke University. I talk with Chris about his "lens-based account of intersectional stereotyping," which argues that we can only pay attention to one social identity at a time. As a result, the stereotypes that come to mind depend on the one lens through which we're seeing someone at the moment. Things we mention in this episode: Walter Lippman's 1922 book "Public Op...
#54: Influence is Your Superpower with Zoe Chance
January 17, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBZoe Chance is an assistant professor of marketing at the Yale School of Management. Prior to Yale, she managed a $200 million segment of the Barbie brand at Mattel. In February, she's releasing her first book: Influence Is Your Superpower. In this episode, we talk about Zoe's winding road to becoming a business school professor, the class she teaches at Yale on influence and persuasion, and the insights she shares in her upcoming book. For a transcript of this episode, visit: http://opini...
BONUS: "Best" of Opinion Science (2021)
January 09, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBAnother year in the books! Sure, there was a lot of wild stuff in 2021--an insurrection, COVID vaccine rollouts, a new president, another installment in the Tiger King franchise...and my daughter was born! But through it all, we had Opinion Science. This year saw a bunch of new listeners, amazing guests, and some ambitious episodes. Your support has meant a lot. So even though I'm a couple weeks behind on this, I wanted put together another "best of" episode, featuring notable moments from...
#53: Influence on the Ground with Brian Ahearn
January 03, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBBrian Ahearn specializes in applying the science of influence in everyday situations. He is one of only a dozen individuals in the world who currently holds the Cialdini Method Certified Trainer® (CMCT) designation, and he teaches the psychology of persuasion and influence as it applies to sales and other aspects of our lives. He's the author of Influence PEOPLE, which was named one of the best influence books of all time by BookAuthority. He followed that up with Persuasive Selling for Rel...
Giving and Getting Good Gifts [Rebroadcast]
December 20, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis is a rebroadcast of Episode 27: Giving and Getting Good Gifts (December 21, 2020). It’s that time of year when winter holidays send people on a buying spree as they collect gifts to give to every friend, family member, and acquaintance. And you’d think that after so many years of giving gifts for all sorts of holidays, we’d be pretty good at it. Right? Well, not according to research in psychology. In this episode, we explore the psychology of why giving to others is such a good thing ...
#52: Applying Behavioral Science with Melina Palmer
December 06, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBMelina Palmer is founder and CEO of The Brainy Business, which provides behavioral economics consulting to businesses of all sizes from around the world. Her podcast, The Brainy Business, has downloads in over 160 countries and is used as a resource for teaching applied behavioral economics for many universities and businesses. In this episode, I talk to Melina about how she got involved in the world of behavioral science, what behavioral economics means to her, and how she goes about appl...
#51: On Debate with Harish Natarajan, Dan Zafrir, & Noa Ovadia
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBThis episode follows up on the previous episode of Opinion Science about IBM's Project Debater. If you haven't already, be sure to check out that episode. But this week we hear more from Harish Natarajan, Dan Zafrir, and Noa Ovadia--three accomplished debaters. They'll share how they got into debate, what debate means to them, and why the exercise of debate is so important. In the opening section of the episode, we hear a quick clip from social psychologist Richard Petty. And the study I s...
#51: Debate with Harish Natarajan, Dan Zafrir, & Noa Ovadia
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBThis episode follows up on the previous episode of Opinion Science about IBM's Project Debater. If you haven't already, be sure to check out that episode. But this week we hear more from Harish Natarajan, Dan Zafrir, and Noa Ovadia--three accomplished debaters. They'll share how they got into debate, what debate means to them, and why the exercise of debate is so important. In the opening section of the episode, we hear a quick clip from social psychologist Richard Petty. And the study I s...
#50: To Persuade is Human?
November 08, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBIn 2019, IBM introduced the world to Project Debater: an AI system that could go up against humans to debate anything. In this episode, we trace Project Debater’s growth from just an idea to a fully fledged piece of technology and the public debates it’s engaged in. And it raises a bigger question: is persuasion a fundamentally human ability or is it really something that machines are capable of? We hear from IBM engineer and project leaders Noam Slonim, expert debaters Harish Natarajan, Da...
#49: Inoculating Against Persuasion with Josh Compton
October 25, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBJosh Compton studies how “inoculating” people against persuasion can make them more resistant to arguments they encounter later. Dr. Compton is an associate professor of speech at Dartmouth and has written a lot about “inoculation theory,” which began (as a theory) back in the 60s with the work of William McGuire. We talk about lots of inoculation theory’s many extensions and applications. Things we mention in this episode: The “virgin-soil epidemic” explanation of disease spread among ind...
#48: "Selling" Social Science with Daniel Pink
October 11, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBDaniel Pink is a bestselling author who uses social science research to explore big questions about what it means to be human. He’s written six books, and a new one comes out in February—The Power of Regret. You can also check out his Masterclass on sales and persuasion. In our conversation, Dan gives a look into his writing process. How does he go from an idea for a book to the final product? And how does he draw on social science along the way? This was a super fun chat—check it out! T...
#47: Moral Foundations & Political Opinion with Jesse Graham
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBJesse Graham studies human morality and what it means for our political opinions. He’s an Associate Professor of Management at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. As a graduate student with Jonathan Haidt, he helped develop Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), which has gone on to be a massively influential theory of morality and how it develops. One of Jesse’s key insights was that these moral foundations help explain the divides between liberal and conservative people, whic...
#46: Polling 101 with Ashley Amaya
September 13, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBDr. Ashley Amaya is a senior survey methodologist at Pew Research Center. She has a PhD in Survey Methodology and is an expert when it comes to polling the country’s opinions. Our conversation highlights how the simple polling numbers you see on the news are the results of months—sometimes years—of work. Dr. Amaya shares how Pew recruits and maintains high-quality samples of survey respondents, carefully designs the questions that get asked, and checks their surveys’ demographics against th...
Portraits: "Just Because You Asked" (Vanessa Bohns)
September 06, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.53 MBIn a new occasional series on Opinion Science, Portraits gives a snapshot of insights in social science. This week, Dr. Vanessa Bohns shows us how we're more influential than we give ourselves credit for. Vanessa's new book is You Have More Influence Than You Think. It's available September 7th. To hear the full conversation I had with Vanessa, go back to Episode 21 of Opinion Science: More Influence Than You Realize with Vanessa Bohns. Learn more about Opinion Science at http://opinionsc...
#45: How Kids Judge with Larisa Heiphetz
August 30, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBLarisa Heiphetz studies how kids think about religion and morality. She’s an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University where she runs the Columbia Social and Moral Cognition Lab. As a new dad, I’ve been thinking about how young kids form opinions—do they even form opinions at all? So I was curious to talk with Larisa about her work on how kids make different kinds of judgments and think about their new social worlds. If your interested in participating yourself (or your youn...
#44: The Contact Hypothesis
August 16, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBHow can we make the world less prejudiced? Research from the social sciences hints at a promising solution. This week, we do a deep dive on “The Contact Hypothesis”: what it is, how we know it works, and what its limits are. We hear from four experts in this area whose research sheds light on the question: Tom Pettigrew, emeritus professor of psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz Linda Tropp, professor of social psychology at University of Massachusetts-Amherst Shreya Bhatta...
#43: Values with Greg Maio
August 02, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBGreg Maio studies human values. He’s a professor of psychology at the University of Bath in England.* He also co-wrote the popular textbook, The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change, and in 2016, his own book came out called The Psychology of Human Values. In our conversation, he shares his work on what values are and why they’re so important. We talk about when values guide or choices (and when they don’t), how people have a hard time articulating their values, and how we can design ...
#42: Thinking with Richard Nisbett
July 19, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBRichard E. Nisbett has spent his career studying how people think. He is an emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, and his research has influenced how psychologists think about reasoning, introspection, culture, and intelligence. He has written several important books over his career, including The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why and Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. His newest book is Thinking: A Memoir. In this episode,...
#41: Taking Social Science into the World with Neil Lewis Jr.
July 05, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBNeil Lewis Jr. doesn’t just study social questions—he studies them in the places where they matter. He’s an assistant professor of communication at Cornell University, and he’s interested in social inequities, how they work, and how we can address them. In addition to his own research, he also consults for organizations and contributes to FiveThirtyEight. He was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2019 and won the SAGE Young Scholar award from the Society for ...
#40: Explaining Brains with Alie and Micah Caldwell
June 21, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBAlie and Micah Caldwell produce the YouTube channel, Neuro Transmissions. Their videos present the basics of neuroscience and psychology in an accessible, engaging way. Alie is a neuroscientist and senior science writer at the University of Chicago Medicine. Micah is a licensed professional clinical counselor. In our conversation, we talk about the origins of Neuro Transmissions, their philosophy of science communication, and their new book. Check your local bookstores for their upcoming bo...
#39: Social Media Polarization with Chris Bail
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBChris Bail is a computational social scientist. He wrangles the data that our social interactions leave behind to better understand how ideas spread. He is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellow, he studies political extremism on social media using tools from the emerging field of computational social science. He is the author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Pola...
#38: American Islamophobia with Nazita Lajevardi
May 24, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBNazita Lajevardi studies public opinion relating to Muslim Americans. She’s a political scientist and attorney at Michigan State University. In 2020, she published Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia. The book is an extension of her research on public opinion about Muslims in the United States, discrimination faced by Muslim Americans in politics, and the experience of facing these biases. In our conversation, we talk about all these questions and what makes Muslim Ameri...
#37: Influence with Robert Cialdini
May 10, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBDr. Robert Cialdini is an internationally recognized expert on the science of influence. His book Influence is one of the most influential business and psychology books of all time, selling over five-million copies worldwide. As a social psychologist, Cialdini has conducted foundational research on compliance, social norms, and helping behavior. But he is perhaps best known for boiling influence down to several key principles. He just released an updated and expanded edition of Influence: T...
#36: Negotiation with Kwame Christian
April 26, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBKwame Christian is an attorney and negotiation expert. He's the director of the American Negotiation Institute where he and his team offer training and consultation for a variety of negotiation needs. He serves as a professor for Otterbein University's MBA program and Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. In his podcast, Negotiate Anything, Kwame talks to experts in negotiation and persuasion to bring insights to a wide audience. In our conversation, he shares that the podcast has ...
#35: Ambivalence with Iris Schneider
April 12, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBDr. Iris Schneider studies the psychology of "ambivalence," which is when we can see both the pros and cons of something. Oftentimes research shows that ambivalence can be problematic, getting in the way of people being able to form a coherent view on something. However, Dr. Schneider suggests that there can be benefits to ambivalence if we're able to see it not as a challenge to overcome but a state to be embraced. Things we mentioned in this episode. For some good general resources fo...
#34: Opinions of Ourselves with Ken DeMarree
March 29, 2021 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBKen DeMarree studies how opinion science applies how we see ourselves. He’s an associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo. In our conversation, we talk about how opinion science can be used to understand things like self-esteem, how people sometimes desire opinions they currently disagree with, and how some people just tend to be pretty confident in their views. Things we mention in this episode: California’s Self-Esteem Task Force (Guardian; NYT; The Cut) The psych...
#33: Liking What Helps You with David Melnikoff
March 15, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBDavid Melnikoff studies how our goals affect how we feel about things. When stuff helps us reach a goal, we like it…even if it’s not the kind of thing we’d ordinarily like. In our conversation, we talk about what psychologists mean when they talk about people’s “attitudes,” how goals can affect those attitudes, and why all of this means that people can sometimes come to like immoral people. Things that come up in this episode: What is an “attitude”? (For more on this concept, check out...