Choiceology with Katy Milkman Coming Soon: A New Season of Choiceology
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Mar 9, 2026 True high-stakes rescue stories and tense sports roster decisions set the stage. Interviews with leading researchers in psychology and behavioral economics explore what drives big and everyday choices. Surprising findings about how experts treat advice and how crises shape behavior are teased. New installments arrive every two weeks.
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Dramatic Mining Rescue Sets The Season Tone
- A massive rock collapse sealed miners in a chamber, creating one of the most dramatic rescue scenes described on the show.
- Katy Milkman recounts the rescue imagery to illustrate the high-stakes decisions explored this season and the crises guests face.
Big Crises Reshape Future Choices
- Choiceology links vivid crisis experiences to lasting decision impacts, asking how big shocks change future behavior like market avoidance.
- Katy uses examples (mining rescue, market crises) and research guests to reveal how events skew what information we prioritize.
Discounting Experts Can Reduce Accuracy
- Experts can be systematically discounted, which sometimes makes them less accurate than laypeople when listeners ignore useful advice.
- Katy references research finding that discounting expert advice reduced overall accuracy compared with non-expert samples.