Brain for Business
Brain for Business
Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University
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Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University

A 2023 opinion piece in the journal Nature Psychology challenged the prevailing perspective on success and achievement, essentially arguing that we have it all wrong! So, where does the truth about success and achievement really lie??? To discuss this I am delighted to be joined by one of the co-authors of that article, Professor Brooke Macnamara.

About our guest...

Brooke Macnamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. In her research, Brooke is interested in how various factors predict skilled performance variance – both performance changes within an individual and performance differences across individuals.

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