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 38 episodes
How Minds Change
The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
#2 Mentioned in 9 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 9 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 5 episodes
The Invisible Gorilla
How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Daniel Simons
Christopher Chabris
#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
When Prophecy Fails
Henry Riecken
Stanley Schachter
Leon Festinger
#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Align Your Mind
Britt Frank
#7 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
#8 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Science of Stuck
Britt Frank
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Modern Coin Magic
J.B. Bobo
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Spectacle of Illusion
Deception, Magic and the Paranormal
Matthew L. Tompkins
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Easy Crafts for the Insane
Kelly Williams Brown
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Manufacturing consent
Edward S. Herman
John Pruden
Noam Chomsky
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The society of mind
Marvin Minsky
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Don't Talk About Politics
Sarah Stein Lubrano
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Experiencing the Impossible
Gustav Kuhn
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sleights of Mind
What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
Sandra Blakeslee
Stephen Macknik
Susana Martinez-Conde
