#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise

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Learning English with Human Beans

Georges

56 episodes

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Welcome to "Learning English with Human Beans," where language learning meets social sciences! Dive into fascinating human behavior topics while naturally improving your English skills. We explore current research from psychology, sociology, anthropology... unpacking key vocabulary and expressions along the way. Each episode combines engaging social science concepts with practical language learning, helping you communicate with confidence about complex human topics. Grow your English skills through the lens of what makes us human!

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#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise - Part 1/3)

Learning English with Human Beans

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3 weeks ago

#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise - Part 1/3)

Why do we pay to be lied to?

In this first episode of our trilogy on the neuroscience of storytelling, Alice and Marc crack open the black box of the Bayesian Brain. Discover how your mind is actually a "prediction machine" that hallucinates your reality, and why a good plot twist triggers a massive dopamine hit by generating a Prediction Error.

From The Sixth Sense to Fight Club, learn how directors hack your attention and why, the second the twist is revealed, your memory rewrites itself to make you believe you "knew it all along" (Hindsight Bias). It’s not just entertainment; it’s a survival simulation.