Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide”
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Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH radio in Boston as well as on the WGBH Cape and Islands affiliate WCAI/WNAN!
Jonah Lehrer (photo credit: Lori Duff)
Jonah Lehrer, the precocious author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, has come out with a new book called How We Decide. He spoke at the Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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to listen (28 minutes.)
After his talk, ThoughtCast spoke with Lehrer briefly about the value of emotion in rational decision making, the power of wishful thinking to hijack our reason, and the potential to retrain the brain via the mind…
Click here to listen to this rather noisy interview (8:50 minutes.)
July 27th, 2009 at 3:14 am
If you enjoy How We Decide, you will like Think Again. Think Again is aimed more at leaders in larger organisations and give practical advice about how to avoid making bad decisions. Both books use the advances in neuroscience to underpine their ideas.
Andrew
July 27th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the recommendation, Andrew. And thanks for listening. On a more general level, what’s your take on the use of neuroscience to interpret and evaluate human choices?