Your Brain On Climate
Your Brain On Climate
Dave Powell
Cognitive Dissonance, with Sarah Stein Lubrano
59 minutes Posted Apr 16, 2025 at 10:00 pm.
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An episode all about cognitive dissonance. Ever feel like there are two yous in the same head? The one that cares about the planet, and the one that doesn't act like it does? And that having two yous makes at least one of your yous freak out? You (and you) are not alone. Welcome to cognitive dissonance. As Walt Whitman wrote: you contain multitudes. It's a feature, not a bug, of being alive. Humans, it turns out, are very good at thinking conflicting things at the same time....