Coming Soon: A New Season of Choiceology

It’s a new season of Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab. New episodes arrive every two weeks, so please follow us in your favorite podcasting app.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:03Katy Milkman?

  I'm Katie Milkman and I'm a behavioral scientist and professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I'm also the author of the bestselling book, How to Change, and I want to help you make better decisions. In every episode of Choiceology, we tell you a surprising, or quirky, or nail-biting dramatic story that illustrates a different way we can get tripped up when we're trying to make a decision. We talk with astronauts and Olympic gold medalists, surgeons and musicians and wrestlers, people from all different walks of life who faced high-stakes choices. And then I speak with some of the leading academics in psychology and behavioral economics to help you understand the why of it all.

• 0:48Katy Milkman?

  What causes us to make mistakes and how can we avoid certain traps?

• 0:52Speaker 01

  When we're making decisions, not just what information is presented, but how is the information presented?

• 0:57Speaker 02

  What are the things that you confront that you have to pay attention to in order to achieve your objective?

• 1:04Katy Milkman?

  We look at the latest research in behavioral science and break it down in a way that makes it understandable and actionable.

• 1:10Speaker 03

  The other piece of advice would be to actively seek out people who you expect to disagree with you.

• 1:17Katy Milkman?

  It's a new season of Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab. New episodes will arrive every two weeks. Be sure to follow us in your favorite podcasting app.