Sarah Wilson Instagram – LET’S CONFRONT SOME COGNITIVE BIASES! (And what a good time to do so when we’re all feeling so down on each other). This week on Wild I talk to Adam Mastroianni from inside a campervan, parked illegally in the French alps. Adam recently published a study in Nature with happiness expert Daniel Gilbert that demonstrated that everyone (literally) thinks the world is in moral decline, that we are less honest, less kind, that we need to return to the golden days of yore. The controversial bit? Everyone has ALWAYS thought this. And ALL of us are wrong. Adam and I talk through the mad cognitive biases that steer us to this error and cover off a bunch more that explain why being smart doesn’t make you happy, why we forget what we’ve learned and why we all (again) think the general public is stupider than us (we can’t all be right!?). I was overdue a confrontation on my biases and my moral despair…you? Link to episode in bio & stories #wildwithsarahwilson @a_m_mastroianni @nature_the_journal