The Illusion of Control, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss our psychological tendency to overestimate our control over events, with implications for everything from gambling and paranormal beliefs to our movements through everyday life.
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| 1:57.0 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:58.0 | And I am Joe McCormick, and today we are back to continue our series on the psychology concept known as the |
| 2:05.9 | illusion of control. This is a cognitive illusion or a common error in thinking and judgment in which we |
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