Dr. Alan Castel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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I enjoyed your father's podcast partly because I'm like, here's a guy who's not afraid of saying some things.
I appreciate that you said that.
Maybe it's not always what people would expect.
Yeah.
And, you know, I just found that, you know, a lot of these podcasts have a lot of science in them, but he had a lot of, you know, things that made me think, gosh, that's interesting.
Could we test that?
Is that really how, you know, he...
Curiosity, one of our more recent studies has shown that as we get older, you know, memory does decline in many ways, but older adults can remember prices, let's say.
That makes sense.
So, you know, the bananas being, you know, $2.99.
But as soon as we say bananas are $18.49, that just doesn't make sense.
And older adults quickly forget that.
And that's something we were talking about, that the benefit of forgetting things that just don't fit your schemas, that just don't make sense.
With younger adults, a lot of undergraduates will be like, I highlighted 80% of the textbook, why did I get a C on the exam?
it's this inability to kind of selectively focus on what's important.
And I've seen that even in myself, like, you know, when I was younger, I'd be taking notes on everything.
But by your fourth year, you realize, you know what, let me sit back and look for the overarching themes that connect things.
And that's almost how I did well in psychology is I'm like, okay, some of these findings make sense.
And so I can remember it that way, but some of them are counterintuitive.
And a lot of this, like, people aren't always rational, this Kahneman and Tversky, you know, all these biases people have.
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