You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 25 episodes
How Minds Change
The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
#2 Mentioned in 7 episodes
You are now less dumb
How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
David McRaney
#3 Mentioned in 7 episodes
You are not so smart
Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
David McRaney
#4 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Invisible Gorilla
How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Daniel Simons
Christopher Chabris
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
When Prophecy Fails
Henry Riecken
Stanley Schachter
Leon Festinger
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Easy Crafts for the Insane
Kelly Williams Brown
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Align Your Mind
Britt Frank
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Science of Stuck
Britt Frank
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Culture of Growth
The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Meltdown, Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Chris Clearfield
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Normal Accidents
Living with High-Risk Technologies
Charles B. Perrow
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ideology in America
James A. Stimson
Christopher Ellis
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Cascades
How to Create a Movement That Drives Transformational Change
Greg Satell
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Mónica Guzmán
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tribal
How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
Michael Morris
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Quirkology
How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things
Richard Wiseman
