We think we knew it all along, but hindsight bias distorts judgment and fuels overconfidence. Armand DiMele and co-hosts Linda and Julian explore the psychology of bad habits, including why elimination is harder than replacement, and how scheduling, rewards, and physical interruption techniques can help.
Why do we slow down at accidents, follow celebrity scandals, and buy newspapers with tragic headlines? Armand DiMele examines schadenfreude, the universal tendency to feel pleasure at others’ misfortune, drawing on neuroscience showing the brain’s reward centers light up in response to tragedy and arguing this impulse is far more widespread than most people admit.
After Obama’s 2008 election, the real danger is the brain chemistry that follows victory. Armand DiMele traces how dopamine, oxytocin, and unpredictable reward drive both risk-taking and the slide into satisfied inaction, urging listeners to stay mobilized rather than let the moment fade.
