Psychology & Neuroscience

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   Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

   by Antonio Damasio · 3 episodes · 3 shows

   “So, that's not, that's not me. That is, that is neurology. So, if you read a book called Descartes' Error, 2012, he wrote that the emotional center of the brain is what makes decisions.”

   Modern Wisdom · How To Make Better Decisions (with way less uncertainty) - Joe Hudson - #1171 · 02/11/2026 · at 4:40

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   The Matter with Things

   by Iain McGilchrist · 2 episodes · 2 shows

   “He's old. He's maybe 80. Master in his Emistry. And he wrote another book called The Matter with Things. They're both phenomenal. Slightly beyond me, but kind of phenomenal. So this left brain thing is like, left brain is complicated.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2571 - Jimmy Carr · 28/10/2026 · at 2:03:32

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   Thinking, Fast and Slow

   by Daniel Kahneman · 2 episodes · 2 shows

   “choices. And the choice, and the result is better and better. It feels to me like system one, system two thinking a bit from Daniel Kahneman, thinking fast and slow. So, the system two is very deliberate, and you sort of have to pay a lot of cognitive attention to it.”

   Modern Wisdom · How To Make Better Decisions (with way less uncertainty) - Joe Hudson - #1171 · 02/11/2026 · at 3:11

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   How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

   by Lisa Feldman Barrett · 1 episode

   “You are not your brain. You are not your brain. Yeah. That sounds really interesting. Yeah, it is. It's very interesting. It reminds me of How Emotions Are Made, which is another great book. I remember you talking about it. And then Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, another great book. Both those are great books.”

   Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2978: 10 Cheap Foods That Help You Lose Fat and Build Muscle · 30/10/2026 · at 42:24

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   The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

   by Lee Ross, Richard E. Nisbett · 1 episode

   “I know Malcolm Gladwell read it and it changed his life. The book is called The Person and the Situation. And it is not a bestseller. It is written by two academics who never went on podcasts, right? They are Dick Nisbitt and Lee Ross. And every graduate student in psychology has to learn what's in that book.”

   Modern Wisdom · Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158 · 03/10/2026 · at 15:11

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   The Red Book: Liber Novus

   by C. G. Jung · 1 episode

   “So I have a very addictive personality. So I started reading every Carl Jung book I could, like everything about the collective unconscious, the red books, everything that he wrote, and really got into dreams.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2569 - Bill Thompson · 21/10/2026 · at 1:08:23

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   You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Ending Destructive Behavior, Changing Bad Habits, and Taking Control of Your Life

   by Jeffrey M. Schwartz · 1 episode

   “So it was terrible. So anyway, it's a good book, though. It's actually a really good book. It's called You Are Not Your Brain. At least the first 10 pages of it. No, no, it's really good. I'm already an hour or so into it. I'm listening to it. Okay. So essentially, the guy who wrote it is, he came up with strategies for people with OCD or addictions or bad habits.”

   Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2978: 10 Cheap Foods That Help You Lose Fat and Build Muscle · 30/10/2026 · at 40:45

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   A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women

   by Steve Stewart-Williams · 1 episode

   “cost to male lifespan that is very true so i touched on that in the book in a billion billion years of sex differences i write about how actually most people probably don't know this but we do actually already have an intervention that we could in principle do which would completely obliterate the the average”

   Modern Wisdom · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120 · 06/07/2026 · at 2:17:58

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   A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection

   by Nicholas Epley · 1 episode

   “It's a sexy definition, but if it's inaccurate, then we need a new one. I believe that the evidence is not really holding up. And actually, Nick Epley, who wrote a book called A Little More Social, great book, talks about this. I think that the evidence is not quite there. So I don't maybe again, absence of evidence is an evidence of absence.”

   Modern Wisdom · Why Nobody Feels Loved Anymore - Sonja Lyubomirsky - #1115 · 25/06/2026 · at 1:01:30

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