Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His work in social psychology includes the key textbook in the field, How we know what isnt so, and has written books that touch on topics such as behavioral economics and the fallibility of human reason.

In this episode we talk about the subject of regret, and the impact hindsight has on our making judgements.

We explore the relationship between beliefs, emotions and judgements.

We ask my people are cautious in the light of a potentially positive outcome.

Why do people overstate their abilities, where does this overconfidence ?

We explore the subject of biases.

And we ask how we can become better thinkers and decision makers.