The Memory Crisis

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I think some of the more provocative claims of the field are problematic. You confront the replication crisis head on and maybe we'll talk about it explicitly in a little bit. But I have to confess that for it's some times in my marriage, I thought, you know, my wife struggles to remember things accurately. And it's taken some maturity to realize it could part of it could be me too.

Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.