Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University

09/07/2025 36 min Temporada 3 Episodio 10
Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University

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A 2023 opinion piece in the journal Nature Psychology challenged the prevailing perspective on success and achievement, essentially arguing that we have it all wrong! So, where does the truth about success and achievement really lie??? To discuss this I am delighted to be joined by one of the co-authors of that article, Professor Brooke Macnamara.About our guest...Brooke Macnamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. In her research, Brooke is interested in how various factors predict skilled performance variance – both performance changes within an individual and performance differences across individuals.The Nature Psychology opinion piece discussed in the interview can be accessed here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00255-zYou can find out more about Brooke's work at the Skill, Learning and Performance Lab at Purdue University here: https://hhs.purdue.edu/skill-learning-and-performance-lab/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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