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Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

Hidden Brain

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Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam

Wendy Smith is a psychologist at the University of Delaware. For years now, she has studied a series of cognitive traps that are created by dilemmas in our lives. When we confront what looks like a fork in the road, Wendy and her colleagues have found that our minds change in predictable ways. Many of these changes are not conducive to good decision-making.

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