The Dissenter
My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 700 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
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Dr. Paulo Gama Mota is Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He’s also a researcher at the Center for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at he University of Porto (CIBIO). Dr. Gama Mota is very interested in science communication, having been a former Director of the National Museum of Science and Technique, and the Museum of Science of the University of Coimbra (2006-2015), and also an organizer of initiatives and science communication exhibitions, as well as citizen science projects. His areas of interest and research include: animal behavior, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary anthropology.
In this episode, our primary focus is on sexual selection. We start off by talking about how Darwin conceived of sexual selection, the reactions he got to that theory, and then some of the major developments in the 20th century that led to a full-fledged sexual selection theory, that now is at the basis of the study of any aspects of animal behavior. The conversation eventually goes off to group selection and multilevel selection approaches, and we talk about cultural evolution, gene-culture coevolution, and basically the interplay between biology and culture.
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2URR8hf
Researchgate page: https://bit.ly/2XVoJrG
Central article for the discussion:
Darwin’s sexual selection theory: a forgotten idea: https://bit.ly/2FlQ1Qm
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Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
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THIS TIME, IT’S AUDIO-ONLY. SORRY ABOUT THAT, BUT I HAD SOME SORT OF TECHNICAL ISSUE, AND I COULDN’T DO VIDEO.
Dr. Phoebe Ellsworth is Frank Murphy Distinguished Professor of Law and Psychology, and Faculty Associate at the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics, at the University of Michigan, US. She is noted for her work in law and psychology. More specifically, she has done research on jury behavior and decision making, public opinion and the death penalty, and eyewitness identification. Her other main research interest is in emotions. Some areas of research in this topic include facial emotions, cognition and interpretation of emotion.
In this episode, we talk about emotions, what is innate and cultural about them, several theories about how emotions work. In the second part, we talk about some particular issues in the legal system, like giving too much weight to eyewitnesses; jury decision-making; and what might lead people to support the death penalty.
Time Links:
00:59 Are emotions universal?
12:25 Theories about how emotions work
20:13 Appraisal theory
26:28 Evolutionary theory, and emotions as adaptations
32:05 Can we categorize emotions?
37:51 How to approach emotional disorders
41:39 The accuracy of eyewitness testimonies
48:56 The problem with jury decision-making
54:53 How to understand support for the death penalty
1:00:26 Follow Dr. Ellsworth’s work!
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Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y779d3z2
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
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Dr. Hal Arkes is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. His research focuses primarily on areas like judgement/decision-making, medical decision-making, and economic decision making. He’s received several honors and awards over the years, such as President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (1996-1997); Elected "Fellow" of the American Psychological Society in 1997; College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award (Ohio University) in 1987; and Provost's Teaching Recognition Award (Ohio University) in 1989 and 1990.
In this episode, we talk about some of the main cognitive biases and heuristics (mental short-cuts) that affect decision-making, and particularly when applied to experts and professionals. Topics include: how everyone falls for biases; the bias blind spot; the hindsight bias; the outcome bias; being overconfident; situations where nonexperts perform better than experts; the familiarity effect; the availability heuristic; the sunk cost fallacy; and how to help people and experts make better decisions.
Time Links:
00:59 Experts also fall for biases and heuristics
04:26 The bias blind spot, or thinking that you’re immune to your own biases
05:44 The hindsight bias
08:27 The outcome bias
10:07 About Overconfidence
12:29 When do nonexperts outperform experts?
14:15 The familiarity effect
15:37 The availability heuristic
17:19 The sunk cost fallacy
20:50 How to group biases and heuristics
23:51 How to help people make better decisions
30:49 Follow Dr. Arkes’ work!
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Faculty page: https://psychology.osu.edu/people/arkes.1
Articles on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hal_Arkes
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
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Dr. Carin Perilloux is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Southwestern University, US. She uses cognitive science to study social phenomena from an evolutionary perspective. In particular, she applies an adaptationist lens to human mating. Her main research interests include sexual intent perception, physical attractiveness, sexual victimization and parent-offspring conflict.
In this episode, we focus on particular aspects of human mating, including sexual intent perception, cues of physical attractiveness for both sexes, how women deal with their vulnerability to sexual abuse and rape, and also parent-offspring conflict when it comes to mate selection.
Time Links:
00:50 Joining Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology
06:21 Do men overperceive sexual interest in women?
13:56 Are men jerks?
15:22 What about women? Do they misperceive sexual interest in men?
18:52 Cross-cultural variation
20:33 Seduction and the #metoo movement
27:26 What men and women consider physically attractive
38:14 Women, rape, and their need to feel safe
40:51 Parent-offspring conflict and the daughter-guarding hypothesis
50:04 Follow Dr. Perilloux’ work!
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Personal website: https://www.carinp.com/
Faculty page: https://www.southwestern.edu/live/profiles/25827-carin-perilloux
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
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Dr. Jennifer Vonk is Professor of comparative/cognitive psychology at Oakland University. Her primary research interests are in two overlapping areas: animal cognition, and cognitive development. The underlying goal of her work is to examine cognitive continuities and discontinuities between humans and both closely and distantly related species.
In this episode, Dr. Vonk joins me to talk about what is comparative psychology; how we can apply evolutionary principles to better compare cognition between different species; the importance of studying how a trait develops during the lifetime of a species; the problem with anthropocentric approaches to studying other species; in what ways humans are different, and also how other animals might have some superior abilities; and, finally, the issue with studying animals in the wild and in the lab.
Time Links:
00:44 What is comparative psychology?
05:16 Species Dr. Vonk focuses on
09:45 Comparing species with evolutionary principles
17:15 Evolution and development
20:04 Comparing other primate species to humans
22:46 Anthropocentric views of other species’ cognition
24:34 Why are humans different?
36:47 But, are humans really cognitively superior?
43:20 Animals behave differently in the wild and in the lab
52:42 Follow Dr. Vonk’s work!
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Personal website: https://www.jennifervonk.com/
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y7flokrp
Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y8583rea
Books: https://tinyurl.com/y82gyfr6
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
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Dr. Susan Blackmore is a psychologist, lecturer and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She is best known for her book The Meme Machine, and has written or contributed to over 40 books, mostly on consciousness.
In this episode, we focus on memetics. First, Dr. Blackmore gives a proper definition of memetics, and then we talk about some specific criticisms, some of them coming from my interview with Drs. Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, namely units of culture, and memes as viruses. We briefly discuss free will, and then move on to talk about imitation as the basis for memetics, and other cognitive mechanisms that an animal needs to have to have culture and memes. Toward the end, we also talk about how new technologies, like the internet, are changing the way memetics works.
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Website: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2Vy4Rx9
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UJrU3K
Susan Blackmore: Memes and “temes” (TED talk): https://bit.ly/2XYX757
The Meme Machine: https://amzn.to/2ZSc5vs
The Selfish Gene: https://amzn.to/2DAOjug
A couple of relevant articles:
Memes and the evolution of religion: We need memetics, too: https://bit.ly/2GQRzDJ
Delusions of consciousness: https://bit.ly/2voGVOf
Memetics Does Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution: https://bit.ly/2PEnSsC
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Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
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Dr. Heather Montgomery is a social anthropologist who studied for her PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, which she wrote on child prostitution in Thailand. She has had jobs and research positions in Sussex, Norway, Texas and at Oxford. Her research interests are within Childhood Studies, especially the history and anthropology of childhood and children’s rights.
In this episode, we talk about what might be some cultural influences on childhood, and how boys and girls behave. We address the issue about how parents might look at their children as economic assets, and how that influences division of labor between the sexes, and child labor. We finish by talking a little bit about how people’s perceptions about children changed over time in the West, and some of the reason behind that change.
Time Links:
00:45 Do children share traits across different cultures?
02:39 How important is the way boys and girls are treated differently in different societies?
06:16 Studying childhood from the perspective of social anthropology
08:15 Boys and girls prefer playing with children of the same
10:12 Gendered division of labor
13:19 Are parents worried about the economic value they can extract from children?
16:44 Puberty and initiation rituals
24:16 Child labor
27:03 History of childhood in the West
33:40 Where to follow Dr. Montgomery’s work
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Faculty page (Open University): http://www.open.ac.uk/people/hkm23
Articles (Researchgate): https://tinyurl.com/y9mdx4rw
Books: https://tinyurl.com/ybabowjx
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p
ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
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Dr. Phillip Kavanagh is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the Institute for Social Neuroscience, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Australia. Dr. Kavanagh lectures across both the undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programs, provides research supervision to honors, master's, and PhD students, and clinical supervision to students in the clinical program.
In this episode, we talk about the relationship between evolutionary psychology and clinical psychology, and the discipline of evolutionary clinical psychology. We go through some major issues, like how to properly classify something as a mental disorder/disease; how our modern environments differ in significant ways from the environments we evolved in, and the problems that brings, and the phenomenon of evolutionary mismatch; the several different schools of thought that we have in clinical psychology, and if it would be possible to unify them under a core theory; the difficulties in objectively evaluating patients; life history strategies, and the problems that arise when we have unfulfilled expectations. We also talk about personality variation, and the relevance of personality inventories, like the Big Five, in a clinical context; the sociometer theory, and its explanatory power; how our modern obsession with happiness might be problematic. Finally, we discuss recent literature on the Dark Triad and the Light Triad of human nature.
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Institute for Social Neuroscience: https://bit.ly/2P6L3vp
Faculty page (University of South Australia): https://bit.ly/2KzFc2T
Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2tGSek1
Twitter handle: @Dr_Phil_K
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Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
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Dr. Robert Kurzban is a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life. Dr. Kurzban has served as both the editor-in-chief of the journal Evolution & Human Behavior and President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. He’s also the author of the books Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite, and The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind.
In this episode, we talk about the approach to the mind as being composed by a multitude of evolved cognitive modules that helped us deal with problems during our evolutionary history. We go through some of the main topics of both of Dr. Kurzban’s books, and talk about how our subconscious mind works and some of the implications of it, particularly about a new perspective on phenomena like cognitive dissonance and self-deception. And we also go through some of the implications that it has for politics.
Time Links:
00:51 The mind as modules
04:37 The notion of “self”
05:40 The subconscious parts of our minds, and how they work
11:52 Cognitive dissonance and self-deception
15:25 Is the subconscious wrong or irrational?
19:38 Why don’t people stick with their resolutions?
23:21 About personality
27:37 Are people really divided in two political tribes?
30:26 Moral condemnation and politics
33:10 Follow Dr. Kurzban’s work!
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Personal website: http://www.robkurzban.com/
Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y9xuko7h
Books: https://tinyurl.com/y7kf7g37
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km
PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p
ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
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Dr. Viviana Weekes-Shackelford received her Ph.D. in evolutionary developmental psychology in 2011 from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminal Justice at Oakland University and Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. Her research over the years has been evolutionarily inspired and has had the broader goal of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of violence and conflict in families and romantic relationships. Her research interests and record cut across the psychological domains of forensics, development, social, personality, clinical, and criminology.
In this episode, we expand on the first interview I’ve had with Dr. Todd Shackelford (https://youtu.be/-sFFlebGP70), and talk about things related to human romantic relationships and parent-offspring conflict. First, we discuss the importance of parental investment theory in understanding where conflict in romantic relationships stems from, and the role that fathers play in raising children. We also try to conceive how this knowledge could translate into social policy, when it comes to child support and other kinds of social issues. Then, we talk about domestic violence as a set of evolved mate guarding tactics, and violence exerted on children on the part of genetic parents and stepparents. And, finally, before talking about the specific case of filicide-suicide, we go off on a tangent to talk about evolutionary mismatch and some ways by which modern environments might affect us, including technology like social media.
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Darwinian Diva blog: https://darwiniandivaphd.com/
Evolutionary Psychology Lab (Oakland University): https://bit.ly/2Ds3mXc
Researchgate profile: https://bit.ly/2ToysrV
Edited books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ViluNd
Twitter handle: @darwiniandiva
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Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
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Dr. Athena Aktipis is Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Arizona State University, co-Director of the Human Generosity Project and Director of Human and Social Evolution, and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a cooperation theorist, theoretical evolutionary biologist, and cancer biologist who now works at the intersection of these fields. She will be having a book coming out in the near future, Evolution in the Flesh: Cancer and the Transformation of Life.
In this episode, we talk about what game theory is, and how it works; conflict between the mother and the fetus in the womb; walk away vs the traditional -for-tat cooperative strategies; the osotua system of the Masai, a need-based cooperative system; principles that rule interactions from the cellular to the societal levels, and how they can be applied to develop better tools to fight cancer.
Time Links:
00:59 How game theory works
03:38 Maternal-fetal conflict
07:05 Walk away vs -for-tat
14:47 The Masai and the osotua system
21:23 Common interaction principles from cells to human societies
26:55 Can these principles help us fight cancer?
30:36 The shortcomings of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and the potential of adaptive therapy
34:17 Dr. Aktipis’ work and upcoming book!
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Personal website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org/
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Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/yckwpbjk
Twitter handle: @AthenaAktipis
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
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Dr. Steven Neuberg is a Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University (ASU). He is the co-director of the Kenrick-Neuberg Social Cognition Laboratory. He also founded the ASU Global Group Relations Project, a multidisciplinary and global study of factors, including religion, which shape intergroup conflict. Dr. Neuberg is a fellow of multiple scientific societies and the recipient of several teaching awards, including ASU’s 2012 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award.
In this episode, we talk about the evolutionary bases of stereotypes and prejudices; how they work and how they develop; universal stereotypes, related to age, , and ecology; xenophobia and ethnocentrism; the correct way to evaluate race stereotypes in the US, and the relationship with life history theory; religion and stereotypes; and how to better fight prejudices and their effects.
Time Links:
00:50 What are emotions?
06:40 The function of disgust
11:49
21:19 Universal stereotypes
28:56 Xenophobia and ethnocentrism
32:26 Race stereotypes in the US
38:35 Does religion exaggerate stereotypes?
45:09 How can we fight prejudices and their effects in society?
53:35 Where to follow Dr. Neuberg’s work
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Faculty page: https://psychology.clas.asu.edu/content/steven-neuberg
Articles (Researchgate): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Neuberg
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
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I ONLY HAVE AUDIO FROM DR. WELLING’S SIDE. SORRY ABOUT THAT, BUT I HAD SOME SORT OF TECHNICAL ISSUE, AND I COULDN’T RECORD THE VIDEO.
Dr. Lisa Welling is a tenured Associate Professor at Oakland University, US, and head of The Welling Research Lab there. She was awarded the Oakland University New Investigator Research Excellence Award in 2015, and the Oakland University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2018. She currently serves on the Editorial Boards for the journals Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. She is particularly interested in how hormones affect different aspects of our behavior, including mate choice, preferences, and sexual behavior.
In this episode, we talk about behavioral endocrinology (the way hormones affect our behavior), and evolutionary psychology. We start by going through some basic concepts about endocrinology. Then we go through some differences between men and women in sexual and mating behavior. We finish up with a discussion about how to integrate Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology, and also the importance of the former in today’s context.
Time Links:
01:08 About Dr. Welling’s work
01:42 How do hormones work?
03:36 Organizational and activational effects
08:23 Sexual cues and signals
09:51 differences
11:20 When people get in contact with highly attractive individuals
15:38 How do women behave when ovulating?
19:58 About female
25:54 The behavioral effects of hormonal contraceptives
32:38 Men and testosterone
34:39 Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology
48:09 Where to follow Dr. Welling’s work
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Faculty page: https://oakland.edu/psychology/faculty-and-staff/welling/
The Welling Research Lab: https://www.wellingresearchlab.com/
Articles (Researchgate): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lisa_Welling
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Monday Jun 10, 2019
Monday Jun 10, 2019
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Dr. Gustavo Carlo is Millsap Professor of Diversity in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri. His research areas and interests include: Prosocial and moral development among children and adolescents; Temperament, family correlates, social cognition and emotions, and culture-related variables associated with such development; and Positive health and adjustment among Latino families and youth. He’s also been the recipient of several awards, including the 2017 Top Faculty Achiever from the University of Missouri, and the 2018 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence.
In this episode, we focus on prosocial and moral development in children and adolescents. We refer to the important contributions of genes and the environment, and the many complications associated with studying the different factors; the “stages” approach in developmental psychology; and the development of gender. We also talk about peer pressure, and the shared and non-shared environments; different social cognitions; and, finally, if development still occurs in adulthood.
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Center for Children and Families Across Cultures: https://bit.ly/2YXULUB
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Social Psychology Network profile: https://bit.ly/2I1kswt
Some relevant articles:
Early Adolescence and Prosocial/Moral Behavior I: https://bit.ly/2K9JNXI
Early Adolescence and Prosocial/Moral Behavior II: https://bit.ly/2VQTLQ9
Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence: https://bit.ly/2YT7sQs
Prosocial Development in Early Adulthood: https://bit.ly/2Qw1bXH
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Monday Jun 10, 2019
Monday Jun 10, 2019
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Dr. Lee Jussim is Distinguished Professor, Chair and Graduate Director of the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University. He also runs the Social Perception Lab there. The lab studies how people perceive, think about, and judge others. He is a leader in the fields of person perception, stereotype accuracy and bias and has been integral in the initiative for viewpoint diversity which advocates to correct the inaccuracies in the field of social psychology research. In support of the latter, he helped start Heterodox Academy, a collection of academics pushing for improvements in their academic fields.
In this episode, the conversation is centered on stereotypes. We talk a little bit about the history of looking at stereotypes as inaccurate; how we can test their accuracy; if they affect people’s perception of the groups they’re targeted at; stereotype threats; self-fulfilling prophecies; the validity of implicit bias testing; and some issues with political bias in Social Psychology, and social constructivism.
Time Links:
00:56 History of the science of stereotypes
04:47 Testing the accuracy of stereotypes
09:36 Do stereotypes affect people’s perception of other groups?
14:30 People are able to evaluate others as individuals
16:26 Stereotype threat
26:09 Self-fulfilling prophecies
32:03 Implicit bias testing and anti-bias training
38:57 Is there a political bias in Social Psychology?
47:58 On social constructivism and innateness
57:21 Follow Dr. Jussim’s work!
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Psychology Today blog: https://tinyurl.com/ycn342n8
Books: https://tinyurl.com/y9hp3948
Twitter handle: @PsychRabble
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
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Saturday Jun 08, 2019
Saturday Jun 08, 2019
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Dr. Jason Manning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He’s a theoretical sociologist who seeks to develop general explanations of human behavior, his work focuses primarily on conflict and social control, including various means of expressing grievances, handling disputes, and punishing offenses. Within this area he specializes in violent conflict, particularly in self-destructive forms of violence such as protest suicide, homicide-suicide, and suicide terrorism. His other interests include the sociology of science, sociology of religion, and neoDarwinian theories of culture.
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Manning about suicide, from a sociological perspective. More specifically we talk about what is suicide, and why people commit it; suicide as a form of social control; suicide-homicide; and suicide as a political weapon.
Time Links:
00:49 What is suicide?
02:24 Why do people commit suicide?
05:23 Suicide as a form of social control
11:10 Suicide and victimhood cultures
15:06 Is suicide effective as a social tool?
18:38 Suicide-homicide
22:40 Suicide terrorist attacks
28:17 People’s reactions to terrorist attacks
32:08 Evolutionary psychology hypotheses about suicide
38:52 Where to follow Dr. Manning’s work
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Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/ydy5pzlo
The Rise of Victimhood Culture (book): https://tinyurl.com/yb5lvu5w
Twitter handle: @SocialGeometer
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
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This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Gad Saad: The Enemies of Truth, Reason and Science.
Time Links:
00:00 About intellectual terrorists
11:11 Nomological networks of cumulative evidence
24:18 Consilience
28:20 A SJW story from Portugal
35:11 Why Psychology is a science
44:47 About “The Parasitic Mind”
46:00 Final message from Dr. Saad
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
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Dr. Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. He proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative ratio determination (1973), and parent–offspring conflict (1974). He has also contributed by explaining self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy (first described in 1976) and discussing intragenomic conflict. Steven Pinker considers Dr. Trivers to be "one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought". He’s also the author of books like Social Evolution (1985), Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (2006), Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others (2011), and Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist (2015).
In this episode, we talk about all of the major contributions of Dr. Trivers’ to the field of Evolutionary Biology. First, we look through the some of the major advancements in Evolutionary Biology since Darwin, particularly kin selection, inclusive fitness theory, and sexual selection. Dr. Trivers tells us about how we arrived at his theories of parental investment, reciprocal altruism and parent-offspring conflict. We explore parental investment in its several dimensions and implications. Then, we discuss parent-offspring conflict and the many ways it can manifest across species. We also refer to reciprocal altruism and the situations where friends can be more aligned with our interests than our own family. After that, we talk about deceit and self-deception, how they work, and some of the domains where they might have the biggest impact. We briefly discuss the modularity of mind approach. Finally, Dr. Trivers comments on group selection, and I also ask him to tell us about his more recent work on the evolutionary bases of honor killings in humans societies.
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Website: https://bit.ly/2ZdSF3M
Twitter handle: @TriversRobert
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2v9cVFL
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Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
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This is Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Gad Saad: The Evolution of Consumer Behavior.
Time Links:
02:09 How Dr. Saad decided to apply evolutionary theory to consumer behavior
10:45 Cultural products as fossils of the human mind
14:17 The four great modules of consumer behavior
29:35 Addictive behaviors
34:02 Has Dr. Saad sold his soul to the capitalist devil?
38:09 Behavior is the result of evolution
43:53 Not understanding the process of natural selection
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
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Dr. Felix Warneken is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He’s interested in Developmental Psychology; Culture; Cognition; and Comparative Animal Behavior. His research group addresses questions like how and why human social life involves complex interactions between individuals working together, and what cognitive skills allow them to do so. They do so by examining the earliest forms of cooperation in young children, untangling the processes shaping cooperation across development in different sociocultural contexts, and comparing human cooperation with that of our closest evolutionary relatives, the great Apes.
In this episode, we talk about cooperation in the great Apes and human infants. First, we discuss the proper ways of talking about seemingly disparate behaviors, like cooperation, helping, and altruism. Then, we refer to how crucial it is for us to know how social cognition works in different species. We also address the problem of establishing a biological basis for behavior, and how to deal with sociocultural and behaviorist explanations, without disregarding environmental influences. We then talk about kin selection, reciprocal altruism, in-group favoritism, deception, and other mechanisms that operate in both humans and other close primates. Toward the end, we talk about what distinguishes humans from other primates at the level of social cognition.
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Social Minds Lab: https://bit.ly/2KquJXn
Articles on Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2Tlud0e
Experiments with altruism in children and chimps (YouTube): https://bit.ly/1AYay7s
Twitter handle: @felixwarneken
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Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
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Dr. Gad Saad is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, holder of the Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. He’s the founder of the field of Darwinian Consumption. He was an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Psychology (2012-2015) and of Customer Needs and Solutions (2014- ). He’s been the recipient of several awards, and he’s also a prolific writer, a popular blogger for Psychology Today, and the author of three books, including The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption.
In this episode, we start off by talking about some of the main subjects covered by Dr. Saad’s work. First, I ask him to tell us why he decided to apply evolutionary theory to consumer behavior. We then move on to talk about cultural artifacts as fossils of the human mind, the four great cognitive pillars of consumer behavior, and why some people have addictive behaviors. After I ask him if he has sold his soul to the capitalist devil, we talk about the many ways intellectual terrorists try to butcher evolutionary psychology, the entire field of Psychology, and even science itself as an intellectual enterprise.
Time Links:
02:09 How Dr. Saad decided to apply evolutionary theory to consumer behavior
10:45 Cultural products as fossils of the human mind
14:17 The four great modules of consumer behavior
29:35 Addictive behaviors
34:02 Has Dr. Saad sold his soul to the capitalist devil?
38:09 Behavior is the result of evolution
43:53 Not understanding the process of natural selection
47:01 About intellectual terrorists
58:12 Nomological networks of cumulative evidence
1:11:19 Consilience
1:15:21 A SJW story from Portugal
1:22:12 Why Psychology is a science
1:31:48 About “The Parasitic Mind”
1:33:01 Final message from Dr. Saad
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Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y6ukk2ol
Books: https://tinyurl.com/ya7ydo9r
Twitter handle: @GadSaad
Facebook page: facebook.com/Dr.Gad.Saad
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH7qUqM0PLieCVaHA7RegA
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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And check out my playlists on:
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