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Media Appearances, Interviews, Essays, and Opinion Pieces
Columns and Essays: Newspapers and Magazines
2023 September 22: "Suspect Primes" (book excerpt) (
The Psychologist
)
2023 July 17: "How the Possibility Grid Can Help You Evaluate Evidence Better" (adapted book excerpt) (
Behavioral Scientist
)
2023 July 17: "All Publicity is Good Publicity: How Simple Familiarity Influences Our Decisions" (adapted book excerpt) (
Literary Hub
)
2023 July 13: "This WWII Story Made Us Better Thinkers" (adapted book excerpt) (
Nautilus
)
2023 July 8: "Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It" (
Wall Street Journal - Saturday Essay
)
2017 December 13: "Research: Would cops notice a gun on the dashboard during a traffic stop?" (
Police1
)
2015 October 30: "A simple solution for distracted driving" (
Wall Street Journal
)
2015 February 10: "How not to be the next Brian Williams" (
Slate
)
2014 December 1: "Why our memory fails us" (
New York Times
)
2013 May 24: "Is Google Glass dangerous" (
New York Times
)
2013 March 10: "Does this ad make me fat" (
New York Times
)
2012 November 17: "Using just 10% of your brain? Think Again" (
Wall Street Journal
)
2012 September 7: "Do our gadgets really threaten planes?" (
Wall Street Journal
)
2012 September: "But did you see the gorilla?" (
Smithsonian Magazine
)
2012 August 3: "Why we should scam the scammers" (
Wall Street Journal
)
2012 May: "Replication: The need for new incentives" (
The Psychologist
)
2010 September 24: "Fight The Power" (
New York Times
)
2010 July 25: "Do politicians lie, or just misremember it wrong?" (
Chicago Tribune
)
2010 July 25: "Digital alarmists are wrong" (
Los Angeles Times
)
2010 July 14: "Why financial reform will fail" (
Daily Beast
)
2010 July 5: "Driven to abstraction: Why Obama's abstract words are not reaching us" (
PBS Need to Know
)
2010 July 4: "Hands-free cellphones not solution to distracted driving" (
Seattle Times
)
2010 June 1: "The trouble with intuition" (
Chronicle of Higher Education
)
2010 May 23: "Why losers have delusions of grandeur" (
New York Post
)
2010 May 19: "Four ways information can lead us astray" (
OPEN Forum
)
2010 May: "Think again" (
Spirit Magazine
)
Interviews: Television, Radio, Podcast, and Print
2023 December 1:
Teach Talk Listen Learn — Bob Dignan & Emelie Mies
2023 Fall:
STORIED Magazine — Kim Schmidt
2023 October 9:
Hidden Brain — Shankar Vedantam
2023 September 25:
Curious Minds at Work — Gayle Allen
2023 September 21 (re-airing from July 20):
WILL The 21st — Brian Mackey
2023 September 12:
Inner Cosmos — David Eagleman
2023 August 29:
I Wish They Knew — Joe Hirsch
2023 August 27:
Opinion Science — Andy Luttrell
2023 August 25:
Education of a Value Investor — Guy Spier
2023 August 22:
Easy Prey — Chris Parker
2023 August 22:
Radio New Zealand Afternoons — Jess Miulligan
2023 August 9:
What the Hack — Adam Levin
2023 August 9:
KERA Think — Kris Boyd
2023 August 8:
WGN TV Morning News — Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten
2023 August 6:
Why Do We Do That — Ryan Moyer
2023 August 1:
Full Prefrontal — Sucheta Kamath
2023 July 24:
Something You Should Know — Mike Carruthers
2023 July 21:
Inquiring Minds — Indre Viskontas
2023 July 21:
Everything Hertz — Dan Quintana and James Heaters
2023 July 20:
WILL The 21st — Brian Mackey
2023 July 19:
Speaking of Psychology — Kim Mills
2023 July 17:
Finding the Next Einstein — Jonathan Wai interview
2023 July 17:
Behavioral Grooves — Tim Houlihan and Kurt Nelson
2023 July 16:
NPR Weekend Edition — Sacha Pfeiffer
2023 July 16:
New Books Network — Book of the Day in Psychology
2023 July 15:
Skeptic Zone — Richard Saunders
2023 July 14:
Weird Things — Brian Brushwood and crew
2023 July 14:
UnSILOed — Gregory LeBlank
2023 July 14:
Scamapalooza — Nicholas Johnson
2023 July 13:
QR Calgary Radio (107FM | 770AM), Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge
2023 July 13:
Under the Cortex (APS) — Ludmila Nunes
2023 July 13:
The Psychology Podcast — Scott Barry Kaufman
2023 July 12:
LinkedIn — David DeLallo interview
2023 July 12:
Well and Wise, Medium — Rob Britt interview
2023 July 12:
Remarkable People — Guy Kawasaki
2023 July 12:
Psychologists Off the Clock — Debbie Sorenson
2023 July 12:
Stacking Benjamins — Joe Saul-Sehy
2023 July 11:
You Are Not So Smart — David McRaney
2023 July 11:
Perpetual Chess — Ben Johnson
2023 July 11:
The Power of Us — Jay van Bavel
2023 July 11:
Salon.com — Mary Elizabeth Williams
2022 May:
Newsthink — Cindy Pom
2021 October:
Forensics Talks — Eugene Liscio
2021 Spring:
Psi Chi — Bradley Cannon
2021 March:
Behavioral Finance Exchange — Jim Valentine
2020 November:
Stetoskopet — Amalie MiddleBoe Anderson
2016 August:
NPR Science Friday
2015: Ontario Today, CBC Canada radio
2015: Anderson Cooper, CNN
2015 July 22:
PBS The Good Stuff — Sam Grant
2015 January:
Trend Following — Michael Covel
2014 August:
Attention Talk Radio — Jeff Copper
2013: National Geographic Brain Games, S2, Ep8
2013: WILL Focus 580 — David Inge
2012 January: The Ellen Show, S9, Ep76
2012 June:
NPR On The Media
2011 October:
National Geographic Brain Games, S1 Ep2
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2011 June: From the Inside Out, Business Matters Radio by Thomas White
2011 June:
Future of Education — Steve Hargadon
2011 June: CJAD Radio Montreal — Kim Fraser
2011 June: WGTK Radio — Joe Elliot
2011 June: Morning Show, KRLD — Mitch Carr
2011 June: Financial Spectrum, WKXL — Bill Kearney
2011 June: Morning Show, WGTD Milwaukee — Greg Berg
2011 June: WRDC Radio — Mary Jones
2011 April: WGN radio — Mike McConnell
2011 April: Line One, KSKA radio Anchorage — Thad Woodward
2011 January: Eden Tree podcast — Jessica Adair
2010: The Gabriel Wisdom Show, Business Talk Radio
2010 September 26: Fox News — Tucker Carlson
2010 September 17: Science Friday, NPR — Ira Flatow
2010 September 17: Fox Business News, — Brian Sullivan
2010 September 16: The Today Show, NBC — Kathie Lee and Coda
2010 September 7: Topical Currents, WLRN — Joe Cooper
2010 August 31: Intended Consequences — Tim Holt
2010 August 26:
WGN Extension 720 — Milt Rosenberg
2010 August 8:
The Toronto Star — Trish Crawford
2010 August 11: The Hays Advantage, Bloomberg Radio
2010 July 30:
WDWS On The Record — Peter Pfingsten,
2010 July 30: WLCR Louisville — Vince Huesser
2010 July 28:
Something You Should Know — Mike Carruthers
2010 July 27: WIFT Matters of the Mind — Greg Cohen
2010 July 26:
Science Weekly (The Guardian) — Alok Jha
2010 July 22: CJOB Winnipeg — Geoff Currier
2010 July 20: WFPL State of Affairs — Julie Kredens
2010 July 18: Radio Talk Aukland — Mike Hoskings
2010 July 17: The Token Skeptic — Kylie Sturgess
2010 July 14: KZIM/KSIM radio — Fauna Riggin
2010 July 12: WDWS Penny for Your Thoughts — Jim Turpin
2010 July 12: WBEZ Clever Apes Science — Gabriel Spitzer
2010 July 12: WHAM Morning Show — Chet Walker
2010 July 12: The Beautiful Brain — Noah Hutton
2010 July 12:
The New Scientist — Liz Else
2010 July 9: Wisconsin Public Radio — Veronika Rueckert
2010 July 9: 700WLW Eddie & Tracy Show
2010 July 8 : KPFA The Living Room
2010 July 8: 700WLW Cincinatti — Scott Sloan
2010 July 8: NPR News — Paul Brown
2010 July 8: John Brown’s Mindset, KLRS St. Louis
2010 June 23: KLRS McGraw Millhaven Show
2010 June 22:
KWMU On the Air — Don Marsh
2010 June 20: Trügerisches Wissen, Switzerland — Pascal Biber
2010 June 19: WJBC Bloomington — Steve Fast
2010 June 17: The Doug Noll Show
2010 June 15:
NPR Tech Nation — Moira Gunn
2010 June 15: Intense Experiences — Brian Vaszily
2010 June 14: Vicki McKenna Show, WIBI Wisconsin
2010 June 13: Doug Pagott Show, Minneapolis
2010 June 4: The Commentators, KOMO News Seattle
2010 June 3: KUOW Weekday (3 June)
2010 June 2: Ronn Owens Show, KGO-AM San Francisco
2010 June 2: Late Morning, KVON — Jeff Schechtman
2010 May 29: Newstalk Ireland
2010 May 28: Beyond the Soundbite — Vinny Catalano
2010 May 27: WILL Focus 580 — David Inge
2010 May 19:
NPR Talk of the Nation
2009 Feb 9: Weird Connections, Discovery Channel, S2,E3
2009 March/April: Psicologia Contempranea (Italy) — S. De Vito & S. D. Sala
2008 September: Focus (Germany) — W. Siefer, pp 92-98
2006 September/October: Psychology Today — Insights section
2006 June/July: Splash Magazine — C. DiMartino
2005 November: Quest Magazine (Netherlands) — M. Kitzen, p. 101
2005 August: Bild der Wissenschaft (Germany) — J. Paulus, pp. 70-73
2005 July: New Scientist (UK) — K. Ziemelis, pp33-35
2005 January: Der Spiegel (Germany) — C. Stöcker
2005 January: Muse Magazine — K. Hopkin
2004 October: The Lancet — Lifeline section, 364 p. 1575
2004 June: Courier International (France)— Roger Highfield, 711 p. 54
2004: Charaktery Magazine (Poland)— M. Gumowski, Vol.11, p.47
2004 January: Dateline, NBC
2001 July 22: NPR To The Best Of Our Knowledge
2001 July 5: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast — Vivian Schenker
2000 August: BBC The Brain Story
2000 December: BBC Are You Superhuman
1998: ABC The Pulse