Episodes

Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Availability Bias: Why we massively overestimate our chances of success
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Of all the mental tasks we suck at performing, estimating the likelihood of something really good or really bad happening is right up there. In this episode, Mel and Dan unpack the ingredients that lead to our terrible mental calculations, and discuss how we can reconfigure them to create more compelling ads

Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Intro to Bad Decisions
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Sunday Sep 17, 2017
Welcome to Bad Decisions, the podcast that helps marketers understand why we choose what we choose, why we think what we think, and how to exploit this stuff for fun and commercial gain.
Each episode, Dr Melissa Weinberg (performance psychologist) and Dan Monheit (ad guy) will explore a different heuristic (behavioural quirk) that causes us to make poor decisions. In doing so, they’ll draw from the worlds of research, behavioural sciences, and cold, hard advertising.

