Psychologist David Luevari and His Team Found a Connection Between the Brain and Behavior

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

David Luevari is a social psychologist based at Harvard University. He and his team found evidence for something they call prevalence-induced concept change. When we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic and we succeed, this phenomenon can be called "creep"

In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progress and make those problems seem intractable -- as if we are only treading water when, in fact, we’ve created the change we set out to make.

Sponsors:

-- • The Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart
-- • Squarespace: www.squarespace.com CODE: SOSMART
-- • ZipRecruiter: www.ziprecruiter.com/notsosmart

||| Show Notes at YouAreNotSoSmart.com |||

Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart