The Science of Suggestion: Who Can You Trust?

About this episode:

A conversation with cognitive psychologist Amir Raz

Suggestions can make cheap wine taste like Château Margaux, warp our perception of time, and alter our memories—and in an age where disinformation has impacted our personal lives and our politics, the power of suggestion is worth even more attention.

Dr. Raz merges his experience as a magician and hypnotist with decades’ worth of his own neuropsychological research to map the twilight zone where magic and science coalesce, and show how easily suggestible and manipulable we all are.

Amir Raz is a world-renowned expert on the science of suggestion with recent positions as Canada Research Chair, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Psychology at McGill University. Formerly at Columbia University and Cornell Medical Center, he has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles. His new book is The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds.