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Is memory overrated?

With Prof. Miriam Whitcombe on why status is so hard to measure and so easy to fake, and whether we should try to fix it.

By Alina Petrova11 Oct 202544 min listen

Pale pink blossom on thin branches in front of a raw concrete wall — Blossom against a concrete wall, Lisbon. Photograph: The Unreasonable Human

The rational animal · Episode 744 min listen

Is memory overrated?

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Is memory overrated?

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With Prof. Miriam Whitcombe on why status is so hard to measure and so easy to fake, and whether we should try to fix it.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

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Alina Petrova — Editor-in-chief

Alina Petrova is a Year 12 student preparing to apply to university, and the founder and editor of The Unreasonable Human. She reads across psychology, economics, behavioural science and neuroscience, and writes about the gap between how people are supposed to decide and how they actually do.

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