102 - John Cook on Behaviorism, Cutting in Line at Starbucks, and How to Train your Lizard Brain

Brains are pretty complicated organs. We like to think that we are lucid at all times and that we make all our decisions based on reason and logic. But with a little life experience we all know that's not true. Underneath our thin veneer of free will, we operate out of our lizard brains-- our emotions, habits and trained behaviors that make decisions for us. We then use our rational brains to justify the reason long after the lizard brain has acted. So today in this episode, we are going to be talking to John Cook about: * Psychology and why there's so much disagreement in the field * Behaviorism and Skinner Boxes * How games and media are carefully crafted Skinner Boxes for humans * How to fight logical fallacies * How to train your lizard brain to do the right thing Full show notes can be found at www.intelligentmillennials.com