Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink"

Did you know that in the split-second it took you to read the title of this episode, your subconscious already figured out that it was going to be extremely good?

Peter and Michael talk about Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink," a book that is mostly cute scientific anecdotes but also indirectly resulted in millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted on fraudulent science.

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• Unconsciousinfluences on decision making: A critical review
• Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From Thin Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness
• 'Thin slices' of life
• Conditionsfor Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree
• Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
• Magicat the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea
• False-PositivePsychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant
• ReadingLies: Nonverbal Communication and Deception
• BehavioralScience and Security
• TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities
• TSA Does Not Have Valid Evidence Supporting Most of the Revised Behavioral Indicators Used in Its Behavior Detection Activities
• TellingLies: Fact, Fiction, and Nonsense
• TSA’sSecret Behavior Checklist to Spot Terrorists
• A Review of 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell

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