Media Appearances, Interviews, Essays, and Opinion Pieces
Columns and Essays: Newspapers and Magazines
  • 2024 January 4: "How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons" (Ars Technica)
  • 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