Advice Goddess Radio, "Best Of" Replay, Tonight, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET: Dr. Elizabeth Dunn On How Money Really CAN Buy Happiness
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A "Best Of" replay for you tonight. It's one of my favorite recent shows, filled with science news everyone can use -- the science of how to spend our way to happiness.

My guest is psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, co-author with Dr. Michael Norton, of a terrific, highly readable little book filled with research-driven wisdom: "Happy Money: The Science Of Smarter Spending."
On tonight's show, she lays out the myths we hold about how spending in certain ways will improve our lives and will explain all the ways we can rejigger our spending and thinking, often in small ways, to spend smarter and happier.

Dunn, at age 26, was featured as one of the "rising stars" in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education, and this should be a very interesting and practical show, so don't miss it!

Listen at this link from 7-8 pm Pacific, 10-11 pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/11/11/dr-elizabeth-dunn-how-money-really-can-buy-happiness

Don't miss last week's show on one of my favorite topics -- irrationality.

We like to believe our decisions are rationally driven and make sense. But constantly, our perception and decision-making are clouded by illusions we aren't even aware we have. Some of these include illusions of accuracy in our attention, memory, confidence, and knowledge. These illusions can lead us to make costly -- and even deadly -- errors.

The good news is, by understanding what these illusions are and how we fall prey to them, we can avoid doing it (or at least do it far less), make more rationally-based decisions, and live smarter overall.

To help us do that, my guest tonight, psychologist and researcher Dr. Christopher Chabris is half of the team (with psychologist and researcher Dan Simons) who did the famous and hilarious "invisible gorilla experiment." It's also the title of their fascinating book, "The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us."

On tonight's show, we'll be discussing this experiment and others, why we are so convinced we're perceiving situations correctly when we're doing anything but, and how we can stop that and live like the rational animals we believe ourselves to be.

Listen at this link or download the podcast:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/11/04/dr-christopher-chabris-how-intuition-can-lead-us-astray

Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.