From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

I'm Pete Barara.

I think reducing misery is a far better goal for society than promoting happiness.

Promoting happiness is very good, but reducing misery is more urgent and also

likely to mobilize people to action.

That's Daniel Conneman.

He's one of the most, if not the most, influential psychologist of our time.

In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for, quote,

having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science,

especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.

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A decade later, his groundbreaking book, Thinking, Fast and Slow,

marked the culmination of his life's work, studying bias and decision-making.

In recent years, Conneman has turned his focus to what he refers to as noise,

or unwanted variability in judgments in everything from the practice of medicine,

to the sentencing of criminal defendants, to pop culture,

and what makes some songs hits, but not others.

He joins me to discuss all of this and his remarkable career.

That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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