The People Swap Thing, Is It a Trick?

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30 to 30, 30 % to half of the a subjects did not realize that the person they were talking to had been switched out mid conversation. That was actually theth, the simons ah a change blindness stuff. And now that's incredible to me. But also, some people, a smaller cohort, within that cohort, refuse to believe that that had happened, and they thought they had been. It wasn't that people cound be tricked or misled or misdirected, like magic trick or something. It was the confidence that you could not be and the reluctance to admit that you had been.

In this episode we sit down with expert in behavioral economics Evelyn Gosnell, who is also the managing director of Irrational Labs, an organization that uses social science to help other organizations make big decisions, fight misinformation, and design better products and services.

In a new information ecosystems where our primate brains, which evolved to spread gossip and argue and debate and deliberate and play status games and manage our reputations among trusted peers and signal our attitudes about what we perceive as "us" versus what we perceive as "them," several organizations are helping the places where we gather to do these things create better environments in which to do them.

Evelyn Gosnell is the managing director of one of those organizations, Irrational Labs, and on this show – a podcast about the science of judgment, decision making, bias, and reasoning – she will give us a behind-the-scenes look at how they use the latest research, and conduct their own research, to improve the world.

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