Right Between Your Ears
Description
Many people have a strong sense that their views are right and couldn't possibly be wrong. So how do we come to hold an unshakable conviction and why is it hard to consider that we could be mistaken? Through the eyes of a group of people convinced that they knew the date of the end of the world, this program explores how people believe, how we turn beliefs into certainties, and then mistake them for the truth. A stock trader with a young family, a philosophy student about to graduate and a retail manager who became so convinced she quit her job of 18 years. As they face the consequences of their conviction, neuroscience and social psychology offer insight into how we can become convinced that we're right, even when we're wrong. "A fun and warmhearted look at a community of doomsayers as they face the day of judgment, it ends up saying a great deal about how we all think." - Louis Theroux
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54 min 0 sec
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