219 - Irrational Labs - Evelyn Gosnell

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🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with expert in behavioral economics Evelyn Gosnell, who is also the managing director of Irrational Labs, an organization that uses social science to help other organizations make big decisions, fight misinformation, and design better products and services.In a new information ecosystems where our primate brains, which evolved to spread gossip and argue and debate and deliberate and play status games and manage our reputations among trusted peers and signal our attitudes about what we perceive as "us" versus what we perceive as "them," several organizations are helping the places where we gather to do these things create better environments in which to do them. Evelyn Gosnell is the managing director of one of those organizations, Irrational Labs, and on this show – a podcast about the science of judgment, decision making, bias, and reasoning – she will give us a behind-the-scenes look at how they use the latest research, and conduct their own research, to improve the world. Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode to 19
0:29.4	one I can talk through a recent example we helped tick talk they they turned to us
0:49.3	and said can you help us with this problem of misinformation and the spread of
0:54.0	let's go straight there that's the voice of Evelyn Gosnell the Harvard
1:03.0	educated behavioral scientist and managing director of a rational labs an
1:07.9	organization founded by social scientists to do two things help individuals
1:12.9	and institutions make better decisions and as you will hear in this episode
1:17.2	help companies like Google and Tiktok and Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and
1:22.3	everywhere else people trade information combat the spread of misinformation
1:28.5	on the internet and beyond Evelyn Gosnell I'm a behavioral scientist at
1:33.5	irrational labs so rational labs is a behavioral design firm we help companies
1:37.9	use insights from behavioral science for good irrational labs is one of
1:43.0	several organizations working with individuals institutions corporations
1:47.3	governments and so on to try to get a handle on how to be well
1:52.3	how to be people in a new information ecosystem where our primate brains which
1:58.4	evolved to spread gossip and argue and debate and deliberate and play status
2:04.2	games and manage our reputations among trusted peers and signal our attitudes
2:08.5	about what we perceive as us versus what we perceive as them these brains shaped
2:15.3	by natural selection to do all that these organizations are helping the places
2:20.0	where we gather to do these things create better environments in which to do
2:24.3	them so I invited Evelyn Gosnell manage director of one of those organizations
2:29.9	on this show a podcast about the science of judgment decision-making bias
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