On Opinion Podcast
1) Why Bias is Rational, with Kevin Dorst
“When evidence is ambiguous––when it is hard to know how to interpret it—it can lead rational people to predictably polarize.”Turi talks with philosopher Kevin Dorst to understand why all our cognitiv...Show More
2) Our Stone-Age Brains, with Maren Urner
S2 E29: Our Stone-Age Brains“We have mental mechanisms that have been there since the Stone Age and no longer function in this environment”Short-term thinking, lazy reasoning and stereotyping, and too...Show More
3) The Spirituality Movement, with Jules Evans
S2 E28: The Spirituality Movement“A lot of those who’ve left the church tend to be younger people, who nonetheless still consider themselves spiritual. They’ve been turned off by churches, but they ha...Show More
4) Generational Politics, with Bobby Duffy
S2 E27: Generational Politics“If you truly understand what’s different between generations, you have a much better idea of what’s coming up in the future.”It turns out there are very real differences ...Show More
5) Political Predisposition, with John Hibbing
S2 E26: Political Predisposition“40% of the variance observed in political attitudes can be attributed to genetics”Twin studies have suggested that one third of our political orientation can be traced...Show More
6) Emotional Politics, with Omar Kholeif and Jonathan Sklar
S2 E25: On Emotion“The world that we live in today is fuelled by heightened emotion…”Over the course of these two seasons of On Opinion, we’ve looked at opinions through the lens of philosophy, psycho...Show More
7) The Journal of Controversial Ideas, with Francesca Minerva
S2 E24: The Journal of Controversial Ideas“You can’t have a good education if you’re not exposed to ideas you don’t agree with”Twelve years ago, Francesca Minerva published an academic article&nb...Show More
8) The Evolution of Cooperation, with Nichola Raihani
S2 E23: The Evolution of Cooperation“Every multicellular being is a collective that operates as a whole - the individual is an ‘invention’ of evolution”Cooperation is at work up everywhere - from our ...Show More
9) Psychometrics: measuring ourselves, with John Rust
### S2 E22: Psychometrics: measuring ourselves> _“Psychometrics is one of the most important or influential areas of applied psychology”_Psychometrics, the study of personality and ability, began with...Show More
10) On Inhumanity with David Livingstone Smith
“Dehumanisation both justifies and motivates acts of extraordinary violence - but it is not in any sense an innate disposition”Here lies the terrifying quandary: if humans are the most social of all p...Show More