In this podcast, Shankar Vedantam speaks with Professor Dan Gilbert about how we make decisions. This podcast covers how our emotions, thoughts or assumptions about the future, uncertainty, memory, and happiness can play into the decisions we make. Professor Gilbert reviews several research projects as examples of the phenomenon.
24 minutes
This is a 23:30 minute long TED Talk where Sheena Iyengar discusses how cultural standards shape our choices and decision making. She discusses American assumptions about choice, and examines the varying ways that context affects choices we make.
23 minutes 30 seconds
This podcast covers an interview with Jonah Berger, M.D where he briefly discusses his book Invisible Influence. Some of this podcast covers how me make decisions and certain choices, conformity, and what the role of mimicking is in our day to day interactions. Focus on the first seventeen minutes of the podcast.
27 minutes 28 seconds
