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    The research behind our horrible decision-making

    In decision-making framing is everything, and author Michael Lewis can tell us why it is we humans are so bad at acting rationally.

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    By Warren Olney • Dec 22, 2016 • 1 min read

    In decision-making framing is everything, and author Michael Lewis can tell us why it is we humans are so bad at acting rationally. Best known as the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, Lewis has a new book on how our minds work that’s told through the lens of the friendship between two Israeli psychologists who pioneered the science of decision-making. Lewis calls The Undoing Project "a love story without the sex."

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Independent Producer

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Michael Lewis

      Bloomberg View / Vanity Fair

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    The full episode

    3 of 3
    The year in (fake) news
    1. 1:21Egypt postpones UN resolution on settlements
    2. 7:55The way forward in a post-truth world
    3. 39:38The research behind our horrible decision-makingYou’re reading this
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