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Look again: the power of noticing what was always there

Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Speakers

Professor Tali Sharot

Professor Tali Sharot

Professor Cass R Sunstein

Professor Cass R Sunstein

Chair

Dr Nikki Sullivan

Dr Nikki Sullivan

Join us for this conversation with Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein as they talk about their new book, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There.

In this book they tackle a great question: why are we so often oblivious to things around us, from pollution and lying to bias and corruption? The useful human ability to adapt to all circumstances can lead to blindspots. Discover how to break the habit.

Meet our speakers and chair

Tali Sharot is the Director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Experimental Psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Sharot holds a BA in Economics and Psychology from Tel Aviv University and a PhD from New York University. Sharot is known for explaining deep ideas about human behaviour in an accessible way and highlighting how those insights can be implemented in a range of fields including finance, marketing, health and public policy. Her books, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others and The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, have been widely praised.

New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein (@CassSunstein) is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, as well as founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of Nudge and Noise.

Nikki Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining LSE, she was a Postdoctoral Associate working in Psychology and Neuroscience and Fuqua’s Marketing Department at Duke University. 

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