Dr Michael Platt is known for asking some of the most challenging questions in 21st century neuroscience—and conceiving innovative ways to find the answers. His principal questions focus on the biological mechanisms that underlie decision-making in social environments - why do we make the decisions we do and how conscious of these processes are we? This episode covers:

📉The value of reciprocity and the neuro-economics of decision making

🥀Waning social connection and species decline - are we in an age of despair?

🌎How unconscious and implicit bias works - diversity as a route to equity

🐒How monkeys predicted the US poll outcome

🤝Synchrony, shared mindset, and physiological alignment in group decision-making and cooperation

Find Michael:

Platt Labs Website

Book - The Leader’s Brain

LinkedIn

Mentioned in this episode:

-Chimp Empire documentary

How High Fives are Proven to Improve Culture and Performance

Risk factors for faster aging in the brain revealed in new study

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Early predictors of successful military careers among West Point cadets

The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger (Farnham Street write up)

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Human fertility is declining steeply and might presage our species' collapse

The Children of Men - Film, P.D. James

Countdown - Shanna Swan + Stacey Colino

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

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