Cognitive Revolution

Cognitive Revolution

62 episodes

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 thinkers as unattainable. But that's because we only see the outcome, not the process. Cognitive Revolution is a show about the steps these great minds took to get to the top.

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#75: Susanna L. Harris on Building Community through Communication

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 15 seconds

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#74: Nicole Barbaro on Judging a Book by its Cover

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 4 seconds

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#73: Tara Thiagarajan on Brains—All 7 Billion of Them

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds

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#72: Andy Luttrell on Consistent Quality

Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 58 seconds

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#71: David Edmonds on Turning Philosophy into a Career

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 5 seconds

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#70: Salma Mousa on Investing in Big Projects

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 14 seconds

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#69: Coltan Scrivner on First-Gen to Fame

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 37 seconds

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#68: Alexandra Chesterfield on Being a Conservative in a Liberal Environment

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 48 seconds

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#67: Rebecca Saxe on the Beauty of the Mind

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 19 seconds

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#66: Gordon Allport, the 20th Century's Psychologist

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 6 seconds

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#65: Elizabeth Ricker on Personalizing Your Creative Process

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 52 seconds

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#64: Azeem Azhar on the Exponential Age

Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 11 seconds

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#63: Jay Van Bavel on the Power of Us

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 10:53 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 54 seconds

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#62: Edward Slingerland on How to Drink Well

Published: June 8, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 11 seconds

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#61: Scott Atran on the Risks We're Willing to Take

Published: June 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 18 seconds

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#60: Wade Davis on Becoming an Entrepreneur of Knowledge

Published: May 25, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 32 seconds

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#59: Christopher Bail on How Social Media Shapes Our Identity

Published: May 18, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds

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#58: Jeff Hawkins on Tackling the Big Problems

Published: May 11, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds

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#57: Nancy Kanwisher on Finding Your Niche

Published: May 4, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 59 seconds

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#56: Louis Menand on How to Write about Everything

Published: April 27, 2021, 2:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 51 seconds

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#55: Brian Christian on AI as a Human Problem, Pt 1

Published: April 20, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 44 seconds

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#54: Pedro Domingos on Making the Textbook Smaller

Published: April 13, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds

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#53: Liz Neeley on the Foundations of Good Stories

Published: April 6, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 6 seconds

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#52: Benjamin Moser on the Performance of Everyday Life

Published: March 30, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 3 seconds

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#51: Damon Centola on How Anomalies Drive Scientific Progress

Published: March 23, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 57 seconds

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#50: Ethan Kross on Harnessing the Voice in Your Head

Published: March 16, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds

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#49: Joseph Henrich on What History Can Tell Us About Psychology

Published: March 9, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 seconds

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#48: Sir Simon Baron-Cohen on Putting Together the Big Picture from the Details

Published: March 2, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 25 seconds

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#47: William Labov on What People Actually Say

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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#46: Nicholas Christakis on Mastering Skills

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 3 seconds

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#45: Tanya Luhrmann on Writing about Culture, Belief, and Life

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 36 seconds

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#44: Anil Seth on Interdisciplinarity in Practice

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 second

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Notes from the Field: Myanmar

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 4:59 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 10 seconds

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#43: Denise Sekaquaptewa on How to Make Universities Work For Everyone

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 43 seconds

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#42: Richard Nisbett on Telling More Than He Can Know

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 37 seconds

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#41: Michael McCullough on Why We Give a Damn

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 38 seconds

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Actually Against Academia

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds

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#40: Howard Gardner on the Synthesizing Mind

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 27 seconds

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#39: Yael Niv on the Moral Obligations of Scientists

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds

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#38: Barry Wellman on the Academic Social Network

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 53 seconds

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#37: Susan Goldin-Meadow on Being a World-Class Listener

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 40 seconds

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Notes from the Field: The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 37 seconds

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#36: Richard Shweder on How to Observe the World

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 5 seconds

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#35: Annie Duke on Betting on Your Best Self

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 34 seconds

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#34: Don Norman

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds

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#33: Mahzarin Banaji

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 7:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 50 seconds

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#32: Sade Abiodun

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 3 seconds

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#31: Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 10:51 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 28 seconds

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Coming Back from Covid

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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#30: Daniel Everett on Being Fully Immersed

Published: June 30, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 48 seconds

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#29: Maria Konnikova on Doing the Work

Published: June 23, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 10 seconds

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#28: Steven Pinker on Career Uncertainty

Published: June 16, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 41 seconds

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#27: Mark Granovetter on Why There Are Revolutions

Published: June 9, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 8 seconds

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#26: Alan Baddeley on Proceeding Logically

Published: May 19, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 30 seconds

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#25: Michèle Lamont on Building Big Ideas

Published: May 12, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds

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

Published: May 5, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 3 seconds

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#23: Brad Love on Lifelong Exploration

Published: April 28, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 9 seconds

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#22: Rob Henderson on the Search for Stability

Published: April 21, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 13 seconds

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#21: Olga Khazan on the Power of Outsiders

Published: April 7, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 25 seconds

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Lab Lockdown #3: Steve Rathje

Published: April 3, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds

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

Published: April 1, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 10 seconds

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The Christof Koch Consciousness Reading List

Published: March 30, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Lab Lockdown #2: Jeffrey Lees

Published: March 20, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Lab Lockdown #1: Jaclyn A. Siegel

Published: March 19, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 53 seconds

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#19: Christof Koch on Incandescent Intellectualism

Published: March 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 42 seconds

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#18: Michael Tomasello on Writing for Young People

Published: March 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds

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Newsletter Excerpt: "On Forcing the Issue"

Published: March 5, 2020, noon
Duration: 6 minutes 27 seconds

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#17: Sander van der Linden on Intrinsic Motivation

Published: March 3, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 39 seconds

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#16: Heather Berlin on Bringing Science to the Masses

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, noon
Duration: 58 minutes 22 seconds

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#15: Nicola Clayton on Enthusiastic Serendipity

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 12 seconds

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BONUS: When Should a Conversation End?

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, noon
Duration: 21 minutes 34 seconds

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#14: Weiji Ma on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 11:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds

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#13: David Pizarro on How to Find Collaborators

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 41 seconds

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#12: Dorsa Amir on Ultimate versus Proximate Goals

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 32 seconds

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#11: Nicholas Epley on Designing a Good Life

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 4 seconds

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#10: David DeSteno on Being Optimally Interdisciplinary

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 50 seconds

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#9: Linda B. Smith on Making the Best Local Decisions

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 51 seconds

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#8: Cory Clark on Getting Traction

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, noon
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 51 seconds

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#7: Bradley Voytek on Being a F**k up with Potential

Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 19 seconds

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#6: Axel Cleeremans on Getting in on the Ground Floor

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 45 seconds

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#5: Susan Fiske on the Role of Psychology in Society

Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 43 seconds

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#4: Scott Barry Kaufman on Planning with Precision and Purpose

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, noon
Duration: 35 minutes 22 seconds

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#3: Chantel Prat on Unexpected Advantages

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 8:27 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds

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#2: Paul Bloom on Picking the Perfect Title

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 12:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 3 seconds

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#1: Art Markman on Getting Your Work Out There

Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 12 seconds

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Introduction: Bertrand Russell's Cognitive Revolution

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 9:31 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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