What Sarah Koenig has said about Egocentric bias

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 19, 2026

Sarah Koenig, American journalist, former This American Life producer and creator of Serial, guest-hosting this rerun, has been quoted on Egocentric bias once in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on October 19, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Koenig cited an early-1980s study finding that people judge their own coincidences as far more surprising than identical ones happening to others.

    “people find stories that happen to them far more surprising than the same stories happening to other people”

    This American Life: 489: No Coincidence, No Story! (Oct 19, 2026) · Listen from 14:39

Episodes

  • 489: No Coincidence, No Story!

    This American Life · Oct 19, 2026 · 1 h 1 min

    Guest host Sarah Koenig presents listener coincidence stories—grandmothers, love, coins in the shower, lost fathers, and a pocketknife—while weighing skepticism against meaning.

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