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Why we overestimate ourselves

With Dr. Kwame Whitcombe on whether nostalgia can be taught, bought or merely inherited, and why the textbook still gets it wrong.

Alina PetrovaBy Alina Petrova46 min listen
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With Dr. Kwame Whitcombe on whether nostalgia can be taught, bought or merely inherited, and why the textbook still gets it wrong.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

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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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