What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things? (Dan Ariely)
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.4 • 921 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Tickets for our December event available now: https://skeptic.com/event
Shermer and Ariely discuss: What is disinformation and what should we do about it? • How do we know what is true and what to believe? • virtue signaling one’s tribe as a misbelief factor • the role of complex stories in misbelief • emotions, personality, temperament, trust, politics, and social aspects of belief and misbelief • the funnel of belief • social proof and the influence of others on our beliefs • a COVID-23 pandemic • social media companies responsibility for disinformation • What would it take to change your mind?
Dan Ariely is the bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty. He is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. The Michael Sherber Show Hello everyone it's Michael Schremer before we start the show today I want to tell you about |
| 0:27.9 | our big upcoming event here in Santa Barbara December 1 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Friday night, |
| 0:36.5 | we're doing an open house right here in the office where I'm recording all this. |
| 0:40.0 | I got a food truck coming and adult beverages going to be big fun we're all just |
| 0:43.5 | going to hang out and then Saturday and Sunday I have some terrific guests |
| 0:48.6 | coming I have Michael Schellenberger who's going to be a live podcast guest. |
| 0:53.8 | We're going to record it live at the hotel at the Hilton Beachside Resort, |
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| 1:08.8 | Michael Schallenberger is one of the most interesting people working today, independent journalists. |
| 1:14.0 | He ran for governor of California. |
| 1:15.4 | He works on homelessness. |
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| 1:19.2 | He works on the environment and most importantly he works on social media he was one of the guys that got the |
| 1:25.4 | Twitter files from Elon and went through and found all the interesting things that |
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| 1:46.2 | with you the audience. We're going to do that also Sunday morning with Jared Diamond |
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