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Michal Shermer and Jesse Singal discuss: how social scientists determine causality \\u2022 Primeworld: cognitive priming and how it works (and doesn\\u2019t work) \\u2022 The Malcolm Gladwell-effect (named after the 10,000-hour effect, by Anders Ericsson) \\u2022 the self-esteem and self-help personal-empowerment movements \\u2022 power posing and positive psychology \\u2022 New Age self-help movements \\u2022 Grit (stick-to-itiveness) (Darwin\\u2019s \\u201cdogged as does it.\\u201d) \\u2022 Persistence is task specific and context dependent \\u2022 Big 5 personality as determiners: Grit = Conscientiousness \\u2022 Implicit Association Test and racism, misogyny, and bigotry \\u2022 the replication crisis, what caused it, and what to do about it \\u2022 choice architecture and the nudging of human behavior \\u2022 race, gender, class, I.Q. and other radioactive topics in group differences \\u2022 free will and determinism \\u2022 nature/nurture and how lives turn out \\u2022 abortion \\u2022 and U.S. foreign policy.

Jesse Singal is a contributing writer at New York and the former editor of the magazine\\u2019s Science of Us online vertical, as well as the cohost of the podcast Blocked and Reported. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Robert Bosch Foundation fellow in Berlin and holds a master\\u2019s degree from Princeton University\\u2019s School of Public and International Affairs.