Hidden Brain: Laurie Talks Monkeys and Bad Money Decisions.

Laurie Santos, a Yale psychology and cognitive science professor, dives into the fascinating world of monkey behavior and its parallels to human financial decisions. She illustrates how monkeys exhibit surprising economic rationality in experiments, mirroring our cognitive biases like loss aversion. The conversation also explores the monkeys' sense of fairness, revealing essential insights about human inequality. With humor and scientific depth, Santos challenges perceptions of human uniqueness in cognition, shedding light on our evolutionary roots.