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Us vs. Them

Follow host, Jacob Ward, (The TODAY Show), from the farthest corners of the globe to the inside of your mind as he sets out to discover we are not who we think we are. We imagine our conscious minds make most decisions, but in reality we go through much of our lives on “autopilot”. And marketers and social media companies rely on it. Hacking Your Mind offers you an autopilot owner’s manual.

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Us vs. Them

Hacking Your Mind Episode 103 | 55m 55s | CC

Many of the divisions tearing our country apart arise from our autopilot biases against ‘them’ and how authoritarians ‘hack’ those biases to gain power. Find out how each of us can overcome our autopilot biases and see the world as it really is.

Hacking Your Mind is a production of Oregon Public Broadcasting. OPB executive in charge of production, Steven M. Bass and executive producer, David Davis. Producer, writer and director, Carl Byker; series producer and writer, Kate McMahon; writer and host, Jacob Ward. Hacking Your Mind was made possible by a major grant from the National Science Foundation. Oregon Public Broadcasting is solely responsible for its contents. © 2020 Oregon Public Broadcasting