Daniel Kahneman

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Daniel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the complexity of human nature, studying judgment and decision-making, and his experiments involving loss aversion. Daniel explains that memories can play tricks on our minds when remembering experiences and how to avoid noise and bias in the corporate hiring process. Daniel recounts his childhood growing up in Nazi-occupied France and his encounter with an SS soldier, he breaks down decision hygiene, and how it relates to vaccines. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert I'm
0:04.4	Monica Padman and I'm doing by Dan Sheppard you're doing I'm doing by
0:08.7	Dan Sheppard hi purple you're doing to by Jan Sheppard I're joined by Jan Shepard.
0:12.8	I'm joined by Jan Shepard. We have, uh, I've been saying this about him.
0:17.7	Tell me if you think it's too much. Okay. I would say that Daniel Kahneman
0:21.9	is the Sigmund Freud of our generation. I think he's the most impactful
0:26.2	psychologist of the last hundred years. I think it's accurate.
0:30.9	That's not too much, right?
0:31.9	I mean, I don't want to associate Freud because a lot of Freud's ideas are now proven to be not true.
0:40.0	Right, but you have to still honor his significance to the field of psychology.
0:44.0	In his significance, yes.
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:47.0	Daniel Conelman is a psychologist.
0:48.0	He is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in economics and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
0:54.6	He had a hugely successful book called Thinking Fast and Slow, and he has a new book called
1:01.1	Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment. And why Dan a flaw in human judgment and why Danny Kahneman is so fun in my opinion is he
1:07.2	takes all these assumptions about how people think they think and then he demonstrates through experiments that people don't act in the way they would imagine.
1:19.0	We're all pretty irrational.
1:20.0	We think we're rational.
1:21.0	We're quite a bit illogical and irrational in the way we make decisions and judgments.
1:26.8	It is worth saying that this is like one of the most brilliant people on Earth. And it was a huge honor to be able to talk to him.
1:37.0	And he comes up all the time.
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