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Cognitive Revolution

Welcome to Cognitive Revolution with Cody Kommers. In this show we'll explore the personal side of the intellectual journey. It's all too easy to see the successes of great scientists, creatives, and ... Read more

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#17: Sander van der Linden on Intrinsic Motivation

#17: Sander van der Linden on Intrinsic Motivation

If you haven't recently, go look up a picture of actor Paul Rudd. Now, Ben Affleck. My guest for the show this week look... Read more

3 Mar 2020

1hr 26mins

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#11: Nicholas Epley on Designing a Good Life

#11: Nicholas Epley on Designing a Good Life

Nick Epley is the John Templeton Keller Professor of Behavior Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Busin... Read more

14 Jan 2020

1hr 6mins

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#13: David Pizarro on How to Find Collaborators

#13: David Pizarro on How to Find Collaborators

David Pizarro is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Cornell. He is also chief science officer at ... Read more

28 Jan 2020

1hr 12mins

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#16: Heather Berlin on Bringing Science to the Masses

#16: Heather Berlin on Bringing Science to the Masses

Dr Heather Berlin is one of the purest science communicators I've ever come across. Pure in the sense that she is, above... Read more

25 Feb 2020

58mins

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#15: Nicola Clayton on Enthusiastic Serendipity

#15: Nicola Clayton on Enthusiastic Serendipity

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a bird? Not just to fly, but to really, truly understand the world from a bi... Read more

18 Feb 2020

1hr 9mins

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Newsletter Excerpt: "On Forcing the Issue"

Newsletter Excerpt: "On Forcing the Issue"

If you listened to Cognitive Revolution before, you've probably heard me talk my Friendship Friday newsletter. I've play... Read more

5 Mar 2020

6mins

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#18: Michael Tomasello on Writing for Young People

#18: Michael Tomasello on Writing for Young People

Michael Tomasello is one of the most influential cognitive scientists of the twenty-first century. And yet I would still... Read more

10 Mar 2020

52mins

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#14: Weiji Ma on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

#14: Weiji Ma on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Weiji Ma is an associate professor of neural science and psychology at NYU. He is the co-founder of the Growing Up in Sc... Read more

4 Feb 2020

1hr 3mins

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BONUS: When Should a Conversation End?

BONUS: When Should a Conversation End?

This episode is something of a new experiment I'm trying. I read three previous pieces I've written on various topics ar... Read more

11 Feb 2020

21mins

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#12: Dorsa Amir on Ultimate versus Proximate Goals

#12: Dorsa Amir on Ultimate versus Proximate Goals

Dorsa Amir is a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College. She took her PhD in anthropology from Yale, and has a popular Te... Read more

21 Jan 2020

1hr 7mins

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#25: Michèle Lamont on Building Big Ideas

#25: Michèle Lamont on Building Big Ideas

This week's guest is someone very special. Michèle Lamont has had a huge impact on my own thinking as a psychologist. Sh... Read more

12 May 2020

42mins

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#24: Michael Inzlicht on the Optimal Number of Beers per Psychologist

#24: Michael Inzlicht on the Optimal Number of Beers per Psychologist

Mickey Inzlicht wanted to be a dentist when he grew up. But unfortunately he only made it as far as Professor in the Dep... Read more

5 May 2020

1hr 14mins

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#23: Brad Love on Lifelong Exploration

#23: Brad Love on Lifelong Exploration

Little known fact about Brad Love: he holds the world record for the youngest sounding voice for any fully grown adult m... Read more

28 Apr 2020

53mins

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#22: Rob Henderson on the Search for Stability

#22: Rob Henderson on the Search for Stability

Rob is a Gates scholar at Cambridge, doing his PhD in Psychology. He's written for such venerable outlets as the New Yor... Read more

21 Apr 2020

47mins

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#21: Olga Khazan on the Power of Outsiders

#21: Olga Khazan on the Power of Outsiders

Olga's family moved to America when she was four years old. They were a Jewish family from Russia. Growing up in small t... Read more

7 Apr 2020

51mins

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Lab Lockdown #3: Steve Rathje

Lab Lockdown #3: Steve Rathje

Steve is a PhD student in social psychology at Cambridge. He recently published an article on Psychology Today about the... Read more

3 Apr 2020

37mins

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#20: Julia Shaw on Who We Are and Why It Matters

#20: Julia Shaw on Who We Are and Why It Matters

This is probably the most interesting interview I've done on Cognitive Revolution to date (sorry, Paul Bloom). To call D... Read more

1 Apr 2020

1hr 17mins

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The Christof Koch Consciousness Reading List

The Christof Koch Consciousness Reading List

As a new part of Cognitive Revolution, I'm gathering reading lists from as many of my guests as I can going forward. I'm... Read more

30 Mar 2020

10mins

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Lab Lockdown #2: Jeffrey Lees

Lab Lockdown #2: Jeffrey Lees

Jeff is a PhD at Harvard Business School. He's been working from home for years. And now that the rest of us are in the ... Read more

20 Mar 2020

34mins

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Lab Lockdown #1: Jaclyn A. Siegel

Lab Lockdown #1: Jaclyn A. Siegel

In this crazy times characterized by the chaos of a worldwide pandemic, I've decided to do something a little different ... Read more

19 Mar 2020

51mins

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