Paul and David discuss human rationality and its limitations, including the heuristics-and-biases approach, System 1 and System 2, positive illusions, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and conspiracy theories.

Read the book that inspired the podcast: "Psych: The Story of the Human Mind" [amazon.com]

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