Think with Pinker
Think with Pinker
BBC Radio 4
Nudges and noise
28 minutes Posted Jan 13, 2022 at 4:30 pm.
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The way we think makes us vulnerable to bad decision making, but in his guide to thinking better, Steven Pinker explores how we can exploit our cognitive biases to make better choices.

Professor Pinker is joined by:

Daniel Kahneman, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, Nobel Prize in Economics winner and author of “Thinking Fast and Slow” and “Noise A Flaw in Human Judgement”

Robyn Scott, writer, entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Apolitical, a peer to peer learning platform for public servants designed to make government smarter and more effective.

Producers: Imogen Walford and Joe Kent

Editor: Emma Rippon

Think with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.