This episode features:
-Are smart phones causing young people to be more lonely and depressed
-How can the supplement industry stay afloat if so many supplements are useless
-Discussion of how a paper on psychic powers got published in a top psychology journal
-Why people are often less incompetent than you think
-Why so many professors are bad teachers
-What style of thinking is associated with making successful predictions of the future
-Why do so many people still reject evolution
-Does eating chocolate make you more likely to win the Nobel Prize? (No.)
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Lindbeck, A. (1972) The Political Economy of the New Left. New York: Harper and Row.
Maurage, P., Heeren, A., & Pesenti, M. (2013). Does Chocolate Consumption Really Boost Nobel Award Chances? The Peril of Over-Interpreting Correlations in Health Studies, 2. The Journal of nutrition, 143(6), 931-933.
Tetlock, P. E. (2017). Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?. Princeton University Press.
Twenge, J. M. (2017). IGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us. Simon and Schuster.
Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
In U.S., Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low
Letter: A riddle about liberals
Let's call the pro-lifers what they are: pro-death
Self-affirmation Wikipedia
Secret to Winning a Nobel Prize? Eat More Chocolate
Teens: This is how social media affects your brain
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