Tali Sharot

8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2018 by Tali Sharot · across every show →

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Jun 4, 2018
Assertion Supported
Sharot: 42% of people choose not to know their genetic cancer risk
“When you ask people about this, about 58% say yes. Right, and 42% say no. Now this is useful information. You could use it to make decisions that will prolong your life, and that 42% of the, of individuals do not want it.”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 43:34 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018
Assertion Supported
Sharot: Perceived Choice Triggers Neural Reward Centers Like Food or Money
“One thing that we see is that when you give people a choice or a sense of control, the reward center in the brain is activated. It signals a reward just as it does for actual rewards for like food and money.”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 16:20 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018
Assertion Supported
Sharot: Brains track agreeing partners but disregard disagreeing input in financial decisions
“What we found that when the two people agreed on how much a real estate was worth, each person's brain was closely monitoring the information coming from the partner. And everyone became more confident in their decision, right? Cause well, we agree, so we're p…”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 19:24 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018 neutral
Insight
Sharot: People choose personal decision-making over superior experts for psychological reward
“Even after taking that into account, people still would rather make their own decisions Rather than give it to an expert whose success rate is higher. And the reason that we concluded what's driving that is the extra benefit of control. So just having, making …”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 33:36 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018 neutral
Insight
Gilbert: Parental happiness is partly post-hoc rationalization for immense effort
“Now, Daniel Gilbert tends to say, not about me, but in general, that this is a confirmation bias of sort, or like a rationalization of sort, that you're so happy that you have kids, because you already have them, and you put so much effort into it.”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 51:15 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018
Insight
Sharot: Mitigating confirmation bias requires review by independent parties with different motivations
“I think one way to overcome this is to have your decisions and predictions Assessed by people who don't necessarily hold the same theories as you do and don't necessarily have the same motivations as you do.”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 20:13 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018
Insight
Sharot: Optimism bias persists because humans update more on positive information
“What my research has shown is that we maintain this optimism bias and we, it's generated because we learn a little bit better from unexpected positive information than unexpected negative information.”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 10:10 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
Jun 4, 2018
Insight
Sharot: People seek positive news and actively avoid or delay bad news
“Oh, so basic rules is, in general, on average, we'd rather get the good news than the bad news, right? So if we think it's probably good, we're more likely to seek out. If we think it's bad, we're more likely to say, no, I don't want to know at all, or maybe I…”
Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 41:35 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
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