Woo-Kyoung Ahn (Yale psychologist on thinking)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Dr. Woo-Kyoung Ahn (Thinking 101) is a psychologist and professor of Psychology at Yale University. Dr. Ahn joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how human thinking has evolved over time, how traumatic events can be measured, and what the concept of causal attribution means. Dr. Ahn and Dax talk about the different ways humans confirm their own bias, how people speak differently to their out-groups than their in-groups, and how we rationalize getting cut off in traffic. Dr. Ahn explains what the effects of rumination are on our brains, what the allure of fluency is, and how we are often overconfident in trying to understand others' intentions. 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 armchair expert, experts on expert, I'm Dan rather, I'm joined by Mr.
0:06.6	Mouse.
0:07.6	Via Zoom.
0:09.3	Via Zoom.
0:10.3	Still a party though.
0:12.0	It's still a party. and you are on the road. You're in BB.
0:16.0	It's not the same for you but for me it's very interesting because I'm on the Missouri River in North Dakota and then when I come into the Zoom I'm back in the attic like I can I'm leaping back into my real life
0:28.0	That's fun time travel speaking of time travel we have an expert on time travel today.
0:32.8	We don't have an expert on time travel.
0:38.2	In fact, we have an expert on thinking.
0:40.8	UKyung on.
0:42.2	Ukion is. thinking, U Kyung-An. U Kyung-An is a psychologist and professor at Yale University,
0:48.0	and her class on thinking was one of the most popular classes ever to exist at Yale.
0:54.5	And she's basically taking that class
0:56.0	that everyone was in line to get into
0:58.0	and made a book out of it called Thinking 101,
1:01.5	how to reason better to live better.
1:04.0	And you're going to love this episode and you're going to be thinking about it for weeks and weeks and weeks,
1:09.0	like Monica and I have.
1:11.0	We can't stop thinking about how broken our thinking is and it's so fun.
1:14.0	And she gives some tips which is helpful. Like it's not just like oh no our brains don't work
1:19.9	like there's some ways around. And spoiler alert, we felt in love with her.
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