The Last Show with David Cooper

Organizational behavior professor ⁠Jon Gruda⁠ outlines how ⁠your job says little about what you want in a romantic partner⁠. Protect your privacy. ⁠Sign up for Incogni at https://incogni.com/cooper and get 60% off your first year⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newly elected Kelowna city councillor Brady Rogers explains how he told people not to vote for him... and won. Electrical and computer engineering professor Emily Wenger reveals how she tested the creativity of AI models and found the results to be surprisingly homogeneous. Organizational behavior professor Jon Gruda outlines how your job says little about what you want in a romantic partner. AI researcher Sil Hamilton describes how large language models, when asked to generate a story, somehow all bring up Elias and the lighthouse keeper. Media and literature professor Mathias Clasen goes over the psychology of horror movies, how they provide an imaginative context in which people can play with fear, and explains why bringing horror into the classroom might be a good idea. Protect your privacy. Sign up for Incogni at https://incogni.com/cooper and get 60% off your first year. Segments: (00:00) Introduction (01:07) Brady Rogers (10:00) Emily Wenger pt. 1 (20:00) Emily Wenger pt. 2 (30:00) Jon Gruda pt. 1 (39:50) Jon Gruda pt. 2 (49:50) Sil Hamilton (59:50) Mathias Clasen pt. 1 (1:09:50) Mathias Clasen pt. 2 (1:19:09) Sign-off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With news from outer space, astrobiologist ⁠Sarah Rugheimer⁠ covers the following: Study finds the gas around the Milky Way's central black hole is rich in metals⁠; The moon is shrinking and 10,000 cracks on the lunar surface reveal by how much⁠; and The giant object that likely collided with Earth to form the moon⁠. Check out Sarah's course Experiencing James Webb on The Great Courses here⁠. Protect your privacy. ⁠Sign up for Incogni at https://incogni.com/cooper and get 60% off your first year⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psychology professor ⁠Cynthia Pury⁠ explains ⁠why we like being scared and the science behind Halloween⁠. Protect your privacy. ⁠Sign up for Incogni at https://incogni.com/cooper and get 60% off your first year⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economics professor ⁠Eric Kam⁠ discusses the economics of Halloween – ⁠in particular, retailer Spirit Halloween⁠ – and ⁠the psychology of why we overpay for used cars⁠. Eric weighs in on a dilemma involving ⁠purchasing drinks for friends, then demanding money for them the next day⁠. Protect your privacy. ⁠Sign up for Incogni at https://incogni.com/cooper and get 60% off your first year⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices