Jonathan Berk

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579 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions · Rerun: Ep69 “The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean” with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 2 · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

But, you know, think about what happens when you run an auction.

People congratulate you.

Yes.

Right.

That said, where I'm thinking is in order for you to psychologically deal with the whole thing, you can't go down and

the road of common knowledge.

Because if you go down that road, then you won't walk into the casino because you'll say, I'm going to lose money.

So it's better just to pretend to not go down that road.

And I think in society, people do that a lot where there's an unpleasant equilibrium and they don't want to go down that unpleasant equilibrium.

So they just shut it out.

And then I think that sometimes leads to bad decisions.

Well, Stephen, it's really been a pleasure.

And I thank you so much for coming on the show.

All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions · Rerun: Ep69 “The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean” with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 1 · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And I'm Jonathan Burke, a finance professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

This is the All Else Equal Podcast.

Welcome back, everybody.

Today we're going to do something different, largely because our guest today, Steven Pinker, has written a book that Jules and I decided is so all-encompassing and many of the issues we've spoken about on the show that it's worth devoting two shows to.

That's what we're going to do.

So let's first introduce the topic.

The topic is common knowledge.

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