Unmasking Deception: TSA's Screening Challenges

Did you know that in the split-second it took you to read the title of this episode, your subconscious already figured out that it was going to be extremely good?

Peter and Michael talk about Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink," a book that is mostly cute scientific anecdotes but also indirectly resulted in millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent science.

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Sources:

• Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review
• Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From Thin Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness
• 'Thin slices' of life
• Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree
• Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
• Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea
• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant
• Reading Lies: Nonverbal Communication and Deception 
• Behavioral Science and Security
• TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities
• TSA Does Not Have Valid Evidence Supporting Most of the Revised Behavioral Indicators Used in Its Behavior Detection Activities 
• Telling Lies: Fact, Fiction, and Nonsense
• TSA’s Secret Behavior Checklist to Spot Terrorists
• A Review of 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell

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