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The Weird Wiring of Your Brain: Hidden Patterns That Control You

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Discover why you hit snooze, can't stop scrolling, and make irrational choices through cutting-edge behavioral science. Drawing from Daniel Kahneman's peak-end rule, Anna Lembke's dopamine research, and Dan Ariely's default effect studies, this episode reveals the invisible forces shaping your daily decisions.

The Weird Wiring of Your Brain: Hidden Patterns That Control You
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Choice overload: A conceptual review and meta-analysis (Corrigendum page)
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https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.jcps.2015.07.001
How to make stress your friend
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/q22s5JoA
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/misbehaving-by-richard-h-thaler
Huberman Lab: Controlling Your Dopamine for Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction (Episode 39)
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https://podcastaddict.com/huberman-lab/episode/129041465
Predictably Irrational
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/predictably-irrational-by-dan-ariely
The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one’s own actions and appearance
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10707330/
Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/essentials-understanding-treating-addiction-dr-anna-lembke
Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem
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https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jpolec/v98y1990i6p1325-48.html
Default neglect in attempts at social influence
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1712757114
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3062901/
When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00589.x
The Elephant in the Brain
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-elephant-in-the-brain-by-kevin-simler
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/c062419a-f031-4c16-82ad-cda7884381ed
The Extended Mind
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-extended-mind-by-annie-murphy-paul
Modern Wisdom #735: Rory Sutherland — Hidden Psychology of the World’s Best Advertising
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-modern-wisdom-30936734/episode/735-rory-sutherland-hidden-144678950/
The Goal‑Gradient Hypothesis Resurrected: Purchase Acceleration, Illusionary Goal Progress, and Customer Retention
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https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrj/43/1
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
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https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-8460-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b
What makes us feel good about our work?
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https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work
A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward
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https://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/papers/sdm97.html
Huberman Lab: How to Increase Motivation & Drive (Episode 12)
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https://podcastaddict.com/huberman-lab/episode/120729261
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/scarcity-by-sendhil-mullainathan
Are we in control of our own decisions?
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https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_ariely
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.185.4157.1124
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
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https://www.ted.com/talks/tristan_harris_how_a_handful_of_tech_companies_control_billions_of_minds_every_day
Do defaults save lives?
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8996952_Medicine_Do_defaults_save_lives
Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload
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https://edoc.unibas.ch/48789/
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion-by-phd-robert-b-cialdini
Stumbling on Happiness
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/stumbling-on-happiness-by-daniel-gilbert
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