Degrees of Freedom

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In high school, the nuns told us to do. In college, you got to choose them throughout the process. Decide what your phd. Thesis should be about. It's all electives now. And then i did a post doctrial, a fellowship with stanleny shacter at columbia university. He taught me something that my prior mentors didn't really provide to the same degree.

In this dialogue, based on the new edition of his highly acclaimed bestseller (over 5 million copies sold in over 40 languages), Robert Cialdini — New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion — explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Shermer and Cialdini discuss: Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence and 7 Principles of Persuasion, pluralistic ignorance, free will/determinism, cults, conformity, #BLM, #metoo, antiracism, social justice, and human rights. How rational are humans? Do we default to truth and naturally believe what people tell us? Are we natural-born skeptics or natural-born sheep?