Too Sure for Our Own Good? The Hidden Cost of Overconfidence with Philipp Strack

In this episode, we sit down with Philipp Strack to explore the hidden consequences of overconfidence. From distorted learning to discrimination and systemic bias, Philipp explains to us how overestimating ourselves can quietly shape our decisions, relationships, and even society — and why it's not always a bad thing. Philipp Strack is a professor of Economics at Yale University with a secondary appointment as Professor of Computer Science. His research focus lies in decision-making and behavioral economics in dynamic contexts as well as in concepts like information cost and privacy, among others.

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Too Sure for Our Own Good? The Hidden Cost of Overconfidence with Philipp Strack is an episode from Game Changer - the game theory podcast by TWS Partners.

This episode is 17:09 long.

This episode was published on Apr 21, 2025.

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