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Choiceology with Katy Milkman Podcast Transcripts

Charles Schwab · 118 episodes with transcripts

Can we learn to make smarter choices? Listen in as host Katy Milkman--behavioral scientist, Wharton professor, and author of How to Change--shares stories of high-stakes decisions and what research reveals they can teach us.

Spoken has transcripts of 118 Choiceology with Katy Milkman episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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Latest Choiceology with Katy Milkman transcripts

Better Off Later: Our Preference for Improving Sequences (With George Loewenstein)

October 5, 2026

Katy Milkman (0:10)

Every day in California, tens of thousands of people stream into the original Disneyland and instinctively make their way toward Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Most of them have no idea they're following a trick Walt Disney borrowed from dog trainers. Disney called it a weenie. Hold up a sausage, and a dog will follow you anywhere. His idea? Give human beings something irresistible, off in the distance, and they'll be drawn to walk towards it. But the castle was never…

Jerald Podair (2:29)

You had to worry every day as to what you said. It could cost you your job, it could cost you a raise, it could cost you a promotion.

And that's before you start dealing with the students.

Katy Milkman (2:44)

Being a public school teacher in New York City in the 1950s was a demanding job.

It was also an unpredictable one. Everything from your classroom assignment to your raises to your chances for promotion could depend on one person, your school's principal.

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