Advice Goddess Radio, Tonight, 7-8 pm PT: Dr. Vladas Griskevicius On Making More Effective Choices By Using "Deep Rationality"
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Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don't make sense in the world in which we now live.

Unfortunately, we can't just tell our genes, "Hey, it's 2013! There are no hungry tigers roaming the streets of Baltimore and, by the way, my girlfriend's on The Pill."

But, my guest tonight, evolutionary psychologist, psychologist and marketing professor Dr. Vladas Griskevicius, is going to give us the background to make wiser choices in the future by helping us understand the ways we can be primed to act against our modern interests.

His fascinating book, co-authored with Dr. Douglas Kenrick, is "The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think."

Listen at this link at 7-8 p.m. Pacific, 10-11 p.m. Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/07/01/dr-vladas-griskevicius-make-wiser-choices-via-deep-rationality

Don't miss last week's show with Dr. Mark Goulston, "How Real Influence Takes Persuading By Connecting, Not Pushing."

Listen at this link or download the podcast:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/06/23/dr-mark-goulston-real-influence-takes-persuading-by-connecting-not-pushing

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