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Rational labs has launched an application process for a new boot camp. It's on the web side, irrational lads dot com. There is this real anxiety among some people who like to produce hot takes that social media has just ruined not just democracy, but also our relationship as human ings to one another in some way. I'm wondering what your thoughts are in this regard,. i tend to be a almost polyanaish optimist who thinks that we just need to form illiteracy for these things and create new best practices'

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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