In this June 2022 episode of Hidden Brain, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman discusses how traditional testing methods don't always provide a full picture of our intelligence.

Most of us have taken standardized tests that likely influenced our perceptions of our own intelligence and altered our life trajectories in some way.

But are we placing too much importance on scores and labels that might actually be limiting our capabilities?

On the Hidden Brain podcast, host Shankar Vedantem investigates the science behind unconscious patterns in human behavior.

In this June 2022 episode, Vedantem is joined by Columbia University professor Scott Barry Kaufman.

A humanistic psychologist, cognitive scientist, and founder and director of the Center for the Science of Human Potential, Kaufman is also the author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined and host of The Psychology Podcast.

Here, Kaufman shares his story of growing up being labeled as 'slow', which led him to become a psychologist to research a more expansive view of intelligence.