Shankar Vedantam is NPR's social science correspondent and the host of the Hidden Brain podcast. He previously worked as a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Most of us would agree that there’s a clear—and even obvious—connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations we&rsq...
