Should we Listen to Celebrities?

01/07/2020 33 min
Should we Listen to Celebrities?

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Episode Synopsis

Does fame and an ability to pretend to be someone else qualify you to be an expert on other matters?

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Things mentioned in this podcast:
- Hugh Grant’s views on the government’s reaction to COVID-19 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hugh-grant-this-morning-matt-hancock-coronavirus-lockdown-phillip-schofield-twitter-a9511531.html
- Cognitive skills and their transfer: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/26983/0000550.pdf?sequence=1
- List of actor-politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians
- Fifty years of celebrity endorser research https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mar.21315
- 24 times celebrities have been completely unrelatable during quarantine https://www.insider.com/celebrities-quarantine-social-media-distancing-have-been-completely-unrelatable-in-2020-4


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