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The Dangers of Fad Psychology with Jesse Singal

Minds and Mics

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Are You Bullish or Bearish on Psychology?

CNN's John Sutter talks with social psychologist David Frum about his new book, "Fat Psychology" One of the fundamental reasons why all this fat psychology catches on so easily is because basically the human brain just has an easier time latching on to simple explanations for things and sort of these simplistic causal connections. So how do we like, how can we counteract this? Like you have this great phrase that the sirens call of simplicity. And I don't really have any good answers because I think it's very deep seated.

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