How To Spot False Memories In Your Brain | Science Journalist Erik Vance
Erik Vance is an award-winning science journalist and author of Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal.
Full show notes here: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/461
What We Discuss with Erik:
🧠 How the human tendency for patternicity can be used to inoculate ourselves against pain, but also make us believe we’ve been abducted by space aliens.
🧠 The placebo effect vs. the nocebo effect.
🧠 The power of false memories and the “Satanic Panic” phenomenon of the 1980s.
🧠 How our brains twist reality to match expectations, and how it fits into our evolutionary model for survival.
🧠 Why Erik paid a Mexico City witch doctor to curse him — for science!
🧠 And much more…
For better or worse, the human mind is highly suggestible, leaving us prone to the influence of placebos, hypnosis, and false memories. Whether we like it or not, expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. While it’s easy to see how this makes us more susceptible to manipulation against our best interests, this suggestibility can also be leveraged to counteract pain and the effects of disease.
On this episode, we talk to Erik Vance, an award-winning science journalist whose work focuses on the human element of science — the people who do it, those who benefit from it, and those who do not. Over the course of researching his book Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, the Pulitzer Center tells us “he was poked, prodded, burned, electrocuted, hypnotized and even cursed by a witchdoctor, all in the name of science.” Listen, learn, and enjoy!
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