8 Fascinating Psychological Biases - Richard Shotton

Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, Founder of Astroten and an author. This might not be news to you, but the human brain isn't designed to be rational. There are cheat codes to get the brain to believe strange things, do strange things and change in ways you might not anticipate. Richard has one of the best insights into this world of models, psychology, consumer behaviour, principles for advertising and social change. Expect to learn the marketing secret about behaviour change that everyone forgets about, how to make habit formation absolutely seamless, why IKEA is so successful even though they don't make your furniture, a hack that any advertising campaign can use to make it stick in people's minds, how to fix the problem of choice paralysis and much more... Sponsors: Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://bit.ly/sharkwisdom (use code: MW10) Get 7 days free access and 25% discount from Blinkist at https://blinkist.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy The Illusion Of Choice - https://amzn.to/3XDakP7 Follow Richard on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rshotton Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #psychology #behaviouralscience #mentalmodels - 00:00 Intro 00:34 Why You Should Care About Behavioural Science 05:55 Stated Vs Revealed Preferences in Human Behaviour 09:48 Making Habit Formation Seamless 16:12 Are Loyalty Schemes & Incentives a Scam? 23:27 Using Ease to Change Behaviour 33:50 Increasing the Perceived Value of Something 49:29 The Generation Effect in Behavioural Science 57:55 The Behavioural Science of YouTube Thumbnails 1:04:10 Explaining the Keats Heuristic 1:12:54 The Power of Concreteness 1:17:30 Are Stories Better than Statistics? 1:28:56 Psychology Behind Precise Pricing 1:36:24 Where to Find Richard - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/