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The Art of Self-Deception

Rory Sutherland explodes received wisdom. Today he investigates the gentle art of self-deception – how we have evolved to deceive ourselves… in order to better fool others.

Humans are masters of the art of deception – like it or not, it’s hard to disagree.
But the art of SELF-deception is all around – the manifold ways which we subconsciously kid ourselves about our motivations and deepest desires. From little white lies to fake news, self-placebos to dodgy dossiers.
In today’s episode, advertising guru and behavioural expert Rory Sutherland speaks to a legendary figure in evolutionary biology – the American geneticist Robert Trivers, who wrote the foreword to Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. He’s also joined by evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman, and β€œguru of randomness”, the statistician and author of β€œBlack Swan”, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Produced by Steven Rajam for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Wales

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14 minutes

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Sun 23 May 2021 14:45

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  • Wed 21 Nov 2018 13:45
  • Sun 23 May 2021 14:45