Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he'd created. What we don't know is what happened in between. Geoffrey Cain spent years reconstruct ...  Show more

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation we discuss how a health decision saved his son's life and how it changed how he eats, why bureaucracy com ...  Show more

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews cognitive psychologist Barbara Tversky, author of 2019's "Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought." Tversky is a professor emerita of psychology at Stanford University and a professor of psychology and education at Teachers ...  Show more

In this episode, Wendy speaks with cognitive psychologist Larry Barsalou about his work on grounded cognition, concepts, stress, and habits. Their conversation covers many topics, including: a historical look at how psychology has viewed and studied the mind; simulation and predi ...  Show more

Sam Harris speaks with Barbara Tversky about how our senses of space and motion underlie our capacity for thought. They discuss the evolution of mind prior to language, the importance of imitation and gesture, the sensory and motor homunculi, the information communicated by mo ...

In this episode of Remarkable People, join host Guy Kawasaki as he engages in a thought-provoking conversation with one of his idols, Carol Dweck. Carol, a renowned professor of psychology at Stanford University, is the author of the influential book, "Mindset: The New Psychology ...  Show more