Hugo Mercier
Special guest
Hugo Mercier is a research director at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), where he works with the Evolution and Social Cognition team. He's written two books: The Enigma of Reason and Not Born Yesterday, focused on the function and workings of reasoning and
how we evaluate communicated information.
Hugo Mercier has been a guest on 1 episode.
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#87 - Gullibility, Belief, and Conformity (with Hugo Mercier)
June 20th, 2025 | 54 mins 13 secs
belief, communication, information, rationality, reason, trust
Hugo Mercier joins us to discuss his book "Not Born Yesterday" and his work on belief, gullibility, and how we change our minds.