Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews cognitive psychologist Barbara Tversky, author of 2019's "Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought." Tversky is a professor emerita of psychology at Stanford University and a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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| 0:37.3 | This week on the podcast, really, I have a super extra special guest. |
| 0:42.0 | Everybody makes fun of me for saying that each week, but I have an extra special guest. |
| 0:46.3 | I was fortunate enough to go to a dinner one night that Annie Duke was hosting, |
| 0:52.4 | and each person at the table was more fascinating and accomplished than the next. |
| 0:57.5 | From Mike Moboson, a Josh Wolf, to Danny Coniman, and at the end of the evening, |
| 1:03.1 | one of the women at the table pulls me aside to discuss my interview with Michael Lewis, |
| 1:09.9 | and that turned out to be Barbara Tversky, a experimental psychologist, publisher of hundreds of research papers, |
| 1:17.6 | oh, and also the spouse of Amos Tversky, and she told me how much she enjoyed my conversation with Mike Lewis, |
| 1:24.9 | and we started chatting, and it took me, I don't know, maybe four seconds to say, |
| 1:29.9 | oh my god, this woman is fascinating, and I have to sit down and have a conversation with her. |
| 1:34.9 | But she's back and forth between Stanford and Columbia, and it took us a while to hone in on a time, |
| 1:41.4 | and I'm really glad we did. She wrote this fascinating book on how the brain works, |
| 1:47.0 | how we perceive things, whether it's language or spatial perception, and why action shapes thoughts |
| 1:53.8 | and how motion impacts cognitive processes, it's not drying clinical, it's really a very |
| 2:00.5 | fascinating abstract conversation, and we just babbled, at least I babbled, for two hours, |
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