Elan talks about the Halo Effect, which is when a single attribute misrepresents the whole. Adam explores hypnosis, is it really a separate state of mind? Darren busts the myth that goldfish only have a short term memory of 3 seconds.
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Show Notes
The Halo Effect
The Halo Effect: Evidence for Unconscious Alteration of Judgments Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy DeCamp Wilson University of Michigan
LessWrong – The Halo effect
The Economist – The Halo Effect
Hypnosis
Hypnosis – The Skeptic’s Dictionary
Goldfish Memory
Wikipedia on Goldfish Intelligence
