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 Mar 28, 2019

#156 Samuel Andreyev: Innate and Acquired Aesthetic and Artistic Tastes

Thursday Mar 28, 2019

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Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian music composer and writer residing in France. He also has a YouTube channel with his name.
This is my third interview with him, so please go check out the first two.
First interview, “Music Across Times and Cultures”: https://youtu.be/9UENs9ia6Zo
Second interview, “Philosophy of Music and Art”: https://youtu.be/HUiV4Hgw924
In this episode, we talk about aesthetic and artistic tastes and preferences, and their innate and acquired aspects. We also refer to the issues with trying to find patterns in music from different times and cultures that might be universal and biologically based.
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01:12 Are aesthetic and artistic preferences innate or acquired?
04:09 Biological and physiological constraints
09:08 The relationship between musical sounds and natural sounds
13:51 Is there a “savannah hypothesis” for the evolutionary bases of music?
18:38 Social influences
28:54 The issues with finding patterns of musical tastes in different times and cultures
41:28 Modernism, and the issue with classifying something as “ugly” or “beautiful”
52:20 As an artist, is there peer pressure to conform to certain standards?
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Twitter handle: @SamuelAndreyev
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Tuesday Mar 26, 2019

#40 Frans de Waal: Morality, Sociality, and Culture in Primate Societies

Tuesday Mar 26, 2019

Monday Mar 25, 2019

#155 Glenn Geher: Evolutionary Psych, Mating, Attachment, And The PsychTable

Monday Mar 25, 2019

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Dr. Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he has been awarded SUNY Chancellor Awards for Excellence for both Teaching and Research. In addition to teaching various courses and directing the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab, Dr. Geher serves as founding director of the campus’ Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program. He is also credited as the founder of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS). He has also published several books including Evolutionary Psychology 101, Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in , Dating, and Love, and Straightforward Statistics. In Darwin's Subterranean World: Evolution, Mind, and Mating Intelligence, his Psychology Today blog, Dr. Geher addresses various topics related to the human condition.
In this episode, we talk about the evolution of human mating, mating intelligence and the PsychTable, a periodic table of evolved psychological adaptations. We first go through the evolutionary bases of human mating, including the importance of sexual competition and sexual selection, and distinguishing between short-term and long-term strategies in both sexes. Then, we discuss Mating Intelligence and if it really varies independently of General Intelligence and IQ, and also attachment theory. Finally, we talk about the PychTable; the criteria for considering something an adaptation; some criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology (EP); and also the relationship between EP and Biology, and if in the future it could be the unifying framework for all of the branches of Psychology.
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01:32 The evolutionary bases of human mating
11:50 Intrasexual competition and intersexual selection
15:52 Distinguishing between short-term and long-term mating preferences
23:53 Mating Intelligence and its relationship with General Intelligence
32:51 Attachment style and human mating
38:30 The PsychTable, a periodic table of evolved psychological adaptations
42:28 The criteria for something to be classified as an adaptation
46:33 Addressing some criticisms against Evolutionary Psychology (EP) – its interdisciplinarity
48:55 Is EP about adaptations all the way down?
54:02 Is Psychology a branch of Biology? Can EP unite all branches of Psychology?
58:34 Follow Dr. Geher’s work!
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Darwin’s Subterrane

Monday Mar 25, 2019

#39 Vera Gomes: Doença Inflamatória do Intestino e Síndrome do Intestino Irritável

Monday Mar 25, 2019

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A Vera Gomes sofre de doença inflamatória do intestino, neste caso colite ulcerosa, e é uma ativista a tentar sensibilizar para este tipo de condições de saúde, em Portugal, mas também no resto do mundo.
Para o efeito, ela tem um blogue, em português, Escadinhas do Quebra Costas, no qual escreve sobre estas doenças, e também tenta mostrar às pessoas através da sua própria experiência como é viver com uma condição deste tipo.
Neste episódio, falamos sobre a experiência dela a lidar com a colite ulcerosa; o que é que a doença inflamatória da intestino (DII), e como se distingue do síndrome do intestino irritado (SII); de que maneiras a DII pode afetar a vida pessoal e profissional das pessoas que dela padecem; a dificuldade de diagnóstico; a petição que está a ser avaliada na Assembleia da República com propostas para melhorar as condições de vida destes doentes; e como podem ser alvos fáceis de propaganda vinda das medicinas e terapias alternativas.
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Vera Gomes suffers from inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis in her case, and she’s an activist who tries to raise awareness about these health conditions, in Portugal but also in the rest of the world.
She’s the author of a blog, Escadinhas do Quebra Costas, in which she writes about these diseases, and also tries to showcase, through her own experience, how it is to live with a condition like this.
In this episode, we talk about her personal experience while dealing with ulcerative colitis; what is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and how we can distinguish it from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); in what ways IBD can affect the personal and professional lives of people who suffer from it; the difficulty in making a diagnosis; the petition that is being evaluated at the Republican Assembly (in Portugal) with proposals to improve the life conditions of these patients; and how they can be easy targets of propaganda coming from alternative medicine and therapies.
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Blogue Escadinhas do Quebra Costas: https://www.wook.pt/livro/a-vida-e-um-sopro-miguel-mealha-estrada/21607840
Associação Portuguesa da Doença Inflamatória do Intestino: http://www.apdi.org.pt/
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Saturday Mar 23, 2019

#38 Monique Borgerhoff Mulder: Evolutionary Anthropology, Gender Roles, Sexual Selection

Saturday Mar 23, 2019

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Dr. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, and received a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. After a post doc at the Evolution and Human Behavior Program at the University of Michigan, she joined the UC Davis Anthropology (Evolutionary Wing) faculty, where she is now a Distinguished Professor. Professor Borgerhoff Mulder is a human behavioral ecologist (HBE) working on projects relating to life history, inequality, natural resource management, and patterned cultural variation.
Here, we talk about what is Evolutionary Anthropology; the conciliation between Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavioral Ecology; the role of biology and culture in determining gender roles; how the studies done with the Pimbwe add nuance to the study of gender roles; the importance of sexual selection in the creation and exaggeration of sexual dimorphisms; what factors influence reproductive skew in humans; the interaction between mating, parenting and subsistence in the behavior directed at offspring; how the number of mates and the number of years spent with each mate influence fitness; mate selection in different ecological conditions; the problem with romanticizing hunter-gatherer and prehistorical peoples.
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A Dra. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder teve formação como antropóloga social na Universidade de Edinburgh, e recebeu um doutoramento pela Universidade de Northwestern. Após um pós-doutoramento no Evolution and Human Behavior Program da Universidade de Michigan, juntou-se à faculdade de Antropologia (Ramo Evolutivo) da UC Davis, onde é agora Professora Honorária. A Professora Borgerhoff Mulder é uma ecologista comportamental humana, trabalhando em projetos relacionados com história de vida, desigualdade, gestão de recursos naturais, e variação cultural padronizada.
Aqui, falamos sobre o que é a Antropologia Evolutiva; a conciliação entre a Psicologia Evolutiva e a Ecologia Comportamental Humana; o papel da biologia e da cultura na determinação dos papéis de género; como os estudos feitos na tribo dos Pimbwe dão nuance ao estudo dos papéis de género; a importância da seleção sexual na criação e exagero das dismorfias sexuais; que fatores influenciam a reprodução assimétrica nos humanos; a interação entre acasalamento, parentalidade e subsistência no comportamento dirigido à prole; como é que o número de parceiros e o número de anos partilhados com cada parceiro influenciam o fitness; seleção de parceiro em diferentes condições ecológicas; o problema com a romantização dos caçadores-coletores e povos pré-históricos.
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Friday Mar 22, 2019

#154 Robert McCauley: Cognitive Science of Religion, Culture, Cognition, Evolution, and Ritual

Friday Mar 22, 2019

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Dr. Robert McCauley is the William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, at Emory University. Dr. McCauley is a professor of philosophy, psychology, religion, and anthropology who is a pioneer in the cognitive science of religion. He is also the author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and of Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion as well as the co-author with E. Thomas Lawson of both Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms and Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. Dr. McCauley is also the editor of The Churchlands and Their Critics and the co-editor with Harvey Whitehouse of Mind and Religion.
In this episode, we go through some of the basics of the cognitive science of religion, and also how it goes through addressing the study of religion in its biological, cognitive/psychological and cultural aspects. We start by defining cognitive psychology of religion, and its methods. We then address the relationship between biology and culture, and how to go from cognition to culture. We talk briefly about some of the major cognitive bases of religion, and the role that rituals play in religion. Dr. McCauley also goes through a slide that summarizes the evolutionary approaches that we have to the study of religion, including natural selection, sexual selection, group selection, and how they might operate at the level of genetics, individuals and groups. And we finish off by talking about the aspects in which religion is intuitive to people, and why science is so counterintuitive, and also the relationship between science and religion.
Time Links:
01:11 What is the cognitive science of religion?
12:24 The limitations of pure cultural approaches
19:00 The relationship between biology and culture
24:47 How to get from cognition to culture, and from culture to cognition
35:21 How language might influence the way we perceive the world
47:19 The cognitive bases of religion
1:00:04 Religion is not a special human cultural phenomenon completely separate from the others
1:08:10 The importance of ritual in religion, and its function
1:26:14 The issue with interpretation in the study of religion
1:33:06 Evolutionary approaches to religion
1:46:45 Why religion is natural, and science is not
1:54:54 Is science a sociocultural construct?
1:57:49 Are science and religion compatible with one another?
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Friday Mar 22, 2019

#37 David F. Lancy: Children’s Play and Learning in Traditional and WEIRD Societies

Friday Mar 22, 2019

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Dr. David F. Lancy is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He is the author/editor of several books on childhood and culture, including Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) and Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010).
Here, we talk about children’s play as a human universal; teaching behavior from adults in different cultures and ecological conditions; children’s acquisition of language and motherese; what children naturally seek to learn and what they can learn just through observation, imitation, and emulation; the differences between parents’ behavior toward children learning in traditional and WEIRD societies; gender roles; the role of alloparenting in traditional societies; and the relationship between learning impairments and infanticide.
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O Dr. David F. Lancy é Professor Emérito de Antropologia na Utah State University. É o autor/editor de vários livros sobre infância e cultura, incluindo Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996) e Anthropological Perspectives on Learning in Childhood (2010).
Aqui, falamos sobre a brincadeira nas crianças como universal humano; o comportamento de ensino da parte dos adultos em diferentes culturas e condições ecológicas; a aquisição de língua por parte das crianças e o “motherese”; o que as crianças naturalmente procuram aprender e o que podem aprender através da observação, imitação e emulação; as diferenças entre o comportamento dos pais em relação à aprendizagem das crianças em sociedades tradicionais e WEIRD; papéis de género; o papel do “alloparenting” nas sociedades tradicionais; e a relação entre défices de aprendizagem e infanticídio.
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Thursday Mar 21, 2019

#153 Jessica Pierce: Animal Morality, Animal Ethics, and Veganism

Thursday Mar 21, 2019

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Dr. Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist, philosopher, and writer. She currently has a loose affiliation with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Denver, but considers herself mostly independent. She has previously worked variously at the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Randolph-Macon Women's College, having studied at the University of Virginia, Harvard Divinity School and Scripps College. Early in her career, she focused on questions of human health and the environment, co-authoring Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business (Oxford, 2000) and The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care (Oxford, 2004). Since the 2000s, much of her work has focused on human relationships with animals. She collaborated with Marc Bekoff for Wild Justice (Chicago, 2010), and authored The Last Walk (Chicago, 2012), Run, Spot, Run (Chicago, 2016), and The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age (2017).
In this episode, we talk about animal ethics. First, we focus on the biological bases of morality and their importance to animal ethics, and some aspects of animal psychology that might be particularly relevant to the discussion, like consciousness and empathy. In the second part of the interview, we talk about specific topics, like animal research and testing in science, animal conservation in zoos and aquaria, and the food industry and veganism. Finally, Dr. Pierce gives us an overview of the research she is doing with Dr. Marc Bekoff for a new book, that is tentatively titled “A Dogs’ World”, and also a short teaser to a book that she will release next month, “Unleashing Your Dog”.
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01:20 The importance of biology, comparative and evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience to animal ethics
04:12 The aspects of animal psychology that are relevant to ethics
10:10 Is consciousness important?
13:23 The ethical implications of knowing how morality works in other animals
21:13 About empathy
26:10 Are parental care and communal nursing moral behaviors?
29:14 What is the legal and moral status that we should attribute to animals?
33:22 Animal research and testing in science
40:13 Animal conservation in zoos and aquaria
46:42 The food industry, veganism, and lab meat
56:07 About Dr. Pierce’s upcoming book, A Dogs’ World, and how dogs would fare in a world without humans
1:06:46 And her new book coming out next month, Unleashing Your Dog
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Thursday Mar 21, 2019

#36 Jacy Reese: The End of Animal Farming, Veganism, Animal Welfare, Enviromentalism

Thursday Mar 21, 2019

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Jacy Reese is the co-founder of the Sentience Institute, alongside Kelly Witwicki, as well as its Research Director. This year he will release the book The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building An Animal-Free Food System, where he outlines an evidence-based roadmap to a humane, ethical, efficient food system where slaughterhouses are obsolete.
Here, we talk about veganism and animal welfare; effective altruism applied to veganism; the relation between veganism and environmentalism; absurd claims and lies spread by many vegan activities and that undermine the spreading of the message and give veganism a bad image; the science behind veganism; animal testing; animal farming; lab meat; the Sentience Institute; and Jacy’s upcoming book, The End of Animal Farming.
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Jacy Reese é o cofundador do Sentience Institute, juntamente com Kelly Witwicki, assim como o seu Diretor de Investigação. Este ano ele irá lançar o livro The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building An Animal-Free Food System, onde ele apresenta um caminho baseado na evidência para um sistema alimentar mais humano, ético e eficiente, no qual os matadouros se tornam obsoletos.
Aqui, falamos sobre veganismo e bem-estar animal; altruísmo efetivo aplicado ao veganismo; a relação entre veganismo e ambientalismo; afirmações absurdas e mentiras espalhadas por muitos ativistas e que minam a divulgação da mensagem e dão uma má imagem ao veganismo; a ciência por detrás do veganismo; testes em animais; criação de animais de consumo; carne de laboratório; o Sentience Institute; e o livro prestes a sair do Jacy, The End of Animal Farming.
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Its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sentienceinstitute/
Its Twitter handle: @SentienceInst
Book The End of Animal Farming: https://www.amazon.com/End-Animal-Farming-Entrepreneurs-Animal-Free/dp/0807019453
Jacy’s Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmbVphZKYc
His personal website: http://jacyreese.com/
And his Twitter handle: @jacyreese
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Wednesday Mar 20, 2019

Leda Cosmides Part 3: Applied Evolutionary Psychology (Politics, Human Relationships)

Wednesday Mar 20, 2019

Tuesday Mar 19, 2019

Leda Cosmides Part 2: How to Think About Evolutionary Psychology

Tuesday Mar 19, 2019

Monday Mar 18, 2019

Leda Cosmides Part 1: Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Psychology

Monday Mar 18, 2019

#152 Erica van de Waal: Social Cognition And Culture in Primates

Monday Mar 18, 2019

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Dr. Erica van de Waal is Professor of Primatology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is also Director of the Inkawu Vervet Project, at the Mawana Game Reserve, in South Africa, an experimental field site with a study population of over 200 wild vervet monkeys, and a Branco Weiss Fellow of the Society in Science at the University of Zurich. She is interested in the evolution of primate social behaviors with a main focus on cultural transmission and cognition.
In this episode, we talk about the evolutionary/biological bases of culture in primate species. First, we define culture, and also talk about the cognitive tools that primate species need to develop culture, with a few examples of species that have it. We also refer to the ways we can compare humans to other primates in terms of social cognition and cultural behavior. We also touch on theory of mind, and if it’s really necessary to have it to imitate the behavior of others. We then discuss if there are primates, apart from humans, that show teaching behavior and how they communicate. Finally, we go through the parts of the cognition of vervet monkeys that Dr. van de Wall studies, including how their philopatric behavior (philopatry refers to the behavior of staying in the group that individuals are born in, instead of migrating to other groups. That can be done by males or females, and thus we can have male or female philopatry) influences how their culture is developed and transmitted.
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00:51 What is culture?
03:29 Culture as a social phenomenon
07:09 The types of information primates pay attention to
14:50 Primate species that exhibit cultural behavior
17:42 How to compare humans to other primates
21:25 Do other primates have theory of mind? And do they need it to imitate others?
26:27 Do other primates have teaching behavior?
31:24 The importance of communication and language
35:52 Dr. van de Waal’s work with vervet monkeys
39:22 The trouble with studying primates in the wild vs studying them in the lab
43:42 How philopatry might affect how culture gets acquired and transmitted
50:13 Do tolerance, altruism, and levels of competition and cooperation matter in the evolution of culture?
52:15 Follow Dr. van de Waal’s work!
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Saturday Mar 16, 2019

#34 Azar Gat: War and Terrorism, from the Hunter-Gatherers to the Long Peace

Saturday Mar 16, 2019

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Dr. Azar Gat is the Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, in Israel. He is the founder and head of the University's Executive Master’s Program in Diplomacy and Security. He’s also the author of books like A History of Military Thought, War in Human Civilization, and Nations.
Here, we talk about the evolutionary underpinnings of war in human society; the history and evolution of war, and how war manifests itself in pre-state and state societies, in hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and agricultural societies; the influence of nationalism and religion; the Long Peace and the New Peace; the deterrence role of nuclear weapons; historical trends in war; the possible reasons for the obsolescence of war among the most developed countries and the great powers; the role of terrorism and terrorist attacks; and the possible future of war.
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O Dr. Azar Gat é o Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security e o Presidente do Departamento de Ciência Política da Universidade de Tel Aviv, em Israel. É o fundador e o coordenador do Executive Master’s Program in Diplomacy and Security da Universidade. E é também o autor de livros como A History of Military Thought, War in Human Civilization, e Nations.
Aqui, falamos sobre as bases evolucionistas da guerra na sociedade humana; a história e evolução da guerra, e como a guerra se manifesta em sociedades pré-estatais e estatais, em sociedades de caçadores-recoletores, pastoralistas, e agrícolas; a influência do nacionalismo e da religião; a Long Peace e a New Peace; o papel de dissuasão das armas nucleares; tendências históricas da guerra; as possíveis razões para a obsolescência da guerra entre os países mais desenvolvidos e as grandes potências; o papel do terrorismo e dos ataques terroristas; e o possível futuro da guerra.
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Friday Mar 15, 2019

#33 Richard Lippa: Differences in Cognition and Interests

Friday Mar 15, 2019

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Dr. Richard Lippa is a Professor of Psychology at California State University. He’s the author of books like Introduction to Social Psychology, and Gender, Nature, and Nurture.
Here, we talk about the controversies surrounding the study of human differences; the sources we draw from while establishing the differences as scientific facts; the use of and gender as scientific terms; the role of biology in psychological and behavioral differences; some of the main differences, in aggression, sexual behavior, cognitive abilities, and interests; the role of endocrinology, and the hormones; how studying the psychological traits of homosexual people allow for a better understanding of differences; the prosocial role of testosterone; and the possible influence of sociocultural factors.
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O Dr. Richard Lippa é um Professor de Psicologia da California State University. É o autor de livros como Introduction to Social Psychology, e Gender, Nature, and Nurture.
Aqui, falamos sobre os controvérsias em redor do estudo de diferenças sexuais humanas; as fontes das quais colhemos dados na tentativa de estabelecer as diferenças entre os sexos como factos científicos; o uso de sexo e género como termos científicos; o papel da biologia nas diferenças psicológicas e comportamentais; algumas das principais diferenças, em termos de agressão, comportamento sexual, habilidades cognitivas, e interesses; o papel da endocrinologia, e das hormonas sexuais; como o estudo de pessoas homossexuais permite uma melhor entendimento das diferenças entre os sexos; o papel prossocial da testosterona; e a possível influência de fatores socioculturais.
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Friday Mar 15, 2019

#151 Richard Wrangham: The Goodness Paradox, Human Self-Domestication and Aggression

Friday Mar 15, 2019

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Dr. Richard Wrangham is Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in 1987. He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human warfare, described in the book Demonic Males, and on the role of cooking in human evolution, described in the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Together with Elizabeth Ross, he co-founded the Kasiisi Project in 1997, and serves as a patron of the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP). He has also recently published the book The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (2019).
In this episode, we focus on the main topics of Dr. Wrangham’s latest book, The Goodness Paradox. We talk about the differences between reactive aggression and proactive aggression, comparing ourselves to other primates, and also evidence that comes from studies with hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists and other traditional human societies. Then, we discuss self-domestication, starting with the changes that usually occur both at the physical and the behavioral levels in domesticated species, and also some aspects of our sociality that might have favored self-domestication in our species, with focus on the role that capital punishment has played. Finally, we talk about group selection at the genetic and cultural levels, and also speculate a bit on the possibility of some gene-culture coevolution processes that were set in place after the advent of agriculture having contributed for the further reduction of reactive aggression in humans.
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Thursday Mar 14, 2019

#150 Steve Stewart-Williams: The Ape That Understood The Universe, Biology and Human Culture

Thursday Mar 14, 2019

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Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams is Associate Professor of Psychology at Nottingham University Malaysia Campus. His research revolves around the idea that theories from evolutionary biology can shed light on human psychology. In particular, he’s interested in the evolutionary origins of altruistic behavior and human differences. He also has a long-standing interest in the philosophical implications of evolutionary theory. He’s also the author of the books Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life (2010) and The Ape That Understood the Universe (2018).
In this episode, our conversation centers on some of the main topics of Dr. Stewart-Williams’ most recent book, The Ape That Understood the Universe. We first go through some of the basics of modern evolutionary theory and evolutionary biology, like units and levels of selection, and sexual selection, and also establish the relationship between biology and culture at the same time. Then, we discuss the origins of differences, and psychological traits as part of our phenotype. We also refer to the problem with using the term “gender” in science. We then talk about the model MMC (Mutual Mate Choice) in human sexual selection, and if there is any preferred mating system in human societies, like monogamy or polygamy. Toward the end, we talk about the evolutionary mismatch between our ancestral environments and our modern industrialized scientific societies, and how to approach the study of religion from a biological/evolutionary standpoint.
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00:55 Units and levels of selection in evolution
09:39 Biological and cultural evolution
13:09 How to think about culture
23:19 Sexual selection
27:29 Where to start off from to understand the origins of differences
34:59 The problem with the term “gender”
42:30 The flaws with pure sociological or sociocultural approaches to psychological differences
45:17 Cultures do not vary randomly
48:05 About the MCFC (Males Compete Females Choose) and MMC (Mutual Mate Choice) models of sexual selection
52:14 Is there any preferred mating system in human societies (monogamy, polygamy)?
55:55 Evolutionary mismatch between our ancestral environments and the modern ones
1:00:35 How to properly study religion as a human phenomenon
1:09:31 “Culture might influence our behavior a bit, but it never conjures things up, nor is the origin of them”
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Wednesday Mar 13, 2019

#31 Samuel Andreyev: Music Across Times and Cultures

Wednesday Mar 13, 2019

Tuesday Mar 12, 2019

#30 David C. Geary: Folk Cognition, Differences in Vulnerability, Children’s Learning

Tuesday Mar 12, 2019

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Dr. David C. Geary is a cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist. He is currently a Curators’ Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He’s the author of several books including Children's Mathematical Development, Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Differences, and Evolution of vulnerability: Implications For Differences in Health and Development.
Here, we talk about the cognitive modules of folk psychology, folk biology and folk physics; the book Evolution of Vulnerability, and how the study of vulnerability gives strength to the research on human differences; the differences between biologically primary and secondary information; in what ways is the knowledge about these modules important for us to devise better ways for children to learn and to be educated; the difficulty in learning Mathematics; the role play plays in children’s development and the acquisition of social and academic knowledge; how differences affect the acquisition of academic knowledge for boys and girls, and the possibility of segregated schooling; Peter Gray and the Sudbury Valley School experiment.
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O Dr. David C. Geary é um psicólogo cognitivo do desenvolvimento e evolutivo. É atualmente o Curators’ Professor e Thomas Jefferson Fellow do Department of Psychological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program na Universidade de Missouri. É o autor de vários livros, incluindo Children’s Mathematical Development, Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Differences, e Evolution of vulnerability: Implications For Differences in Health and Development.
Aqui, falamos sobre os módulos cognitivos de “folk psychology”, “folk biology”, e “folk physics”; o livro Evolution of Vulnerability e como o estudo da vulnerabilidade dá força à investigação em redor de diferenças entre os sexos; as diferenças entre informação biológica primária e secundária; de que maneiras o conhecimento sobre estes módulos é importante para concebermos melhores formas para as crianças aprenderem e serem educadas; a dificuldades em aprender matemática; o papel que a brincadeira tem no desenvolvimento da criança e na aquisição de conhecimento social e académico; como as diferenças entre os sexos afetam a aquisição de conhecimento académico para meninos e meninas, e a possibilidade de ensino segregado; Peter Gray e a experiência na Sudbury Valley School.
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Monday Mar 11, 2019

#149 Martin Daly: Evolution, Inequality, Violence And Homicide

Monday Mar 11, 2019

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Dr. Martin Daly is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University, Canada. His areas of interest are human violence (especially homicide), family relations, and evolutionary psychology. He is a founding member and past-president (1991-1993) of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES), and with his late wife Margo Wilson, he served as co-editor-in-chief of the society's journal Evolution & Human Behaviour for its first decade. In 1998, Dr. Daly was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. They also co-authored three books: , Evolution and Behavior (1978, 1983), Homicide (1988), and The Truth about Cinderella (1998). Dr. Daly’s latest book (July, 2016) is entitled Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide.
In this episode, the conversation revolves around violence and homicide, and the main topics of the books Homicide and Killing the Competition. First, we talk about the evolutionary bases of violent behavior, as a means of controlling other people’s behavior and regulating relationships. We also go through the evolved differences in aggressiveness, as a result of intrasexual and intersexual competition. Then, we talk specifically about homicide, and why it might also happen in familial conflicts, even though it is quite rare. We also refer to the potential problems with having an approach that favors pathologizing all types of violent and deviant behavior. Finally, we talk about the relationship between economic inequality and homicide, as explored in Killing the Competition, and how it affects primarily young men, and the environmental and social circumstances that trigger it. Toward the end, we also refer to the importance of the State having the monopoly over violence and its relationship with social stability, and the benefits that we get from economic redistribution.
Time Links:
02:03 The evolved function of violence
07:28 The evolutionary costs and benefits of violence
12:42 differences in aggressiveness and violent behavior
15:50 Intrasexual and intersexual competition
24:21 About homicide
28:25 Familial violence and homicide
34:04 Is the best approach to pathologize violent behavior?
44:47 Killing the Competition, and the relationship between economic inequality and homicide
54:49 Inequality, disadvantaged young men, violence and reproductive success
1:01:19 Killing and waging war to gain access to sexual resources
1:11:34 Violence in criminal gangs
1:15:42 Hobbes, the Leviathan, and State monopoly over violence
1:17:51 Could education on th

Saturday Mar 09, 2019

#28 Edward Slingerland: The Cognitive Science of Religion, And What Sicence Offers the Humanities

Saturday Mar 09, 2019

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Dr. Edward Slingerland is a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He’s the Director of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC), the Director of the Database of Religious History (DRH), and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture (HECC). And he’s also the author of books like What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, and Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity.
Here, we talk about the Cognitive Science of Religion; religion as a biological adaptation or the product of cultural evolution; group selection; religion at the collective and institutionalized levels; the role of CREDs (credibility enhancing displays) in religion; the benefits of religion for the individual and society; the role science should play in the Humanities and the view of the mind as an embodied entity; postmodernism and the Standard Social Science Model.
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O Dr. Edward Slingerland é um professor de Estudos Asiáticos da Universidade da Columbia Britânica, Vancouver, Canadá. É o Diretor do Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC), o Diretor do Database of Religious History (DRH), e o Codiretor do Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture (HECC). E é também o autor de livros como What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture, and Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity.
Aqui, falamos sobre a Ciência Cognitiva da Religião; religião como uma adaptação biológica ou o produto de evolução cultural; seleção de grupo; religião ao nível coletivo e institucional; o papel dos CREDs (credibility enhancing displays) na religião; os benefícios da religião para o indivíduo e a sociedade; o papel que a ciência deveria ter nas Humanidades e a visão da mente como uma entidade corpórea; pós-modernismo e o Standard Social Science Model.
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MOOC The Science of Religion: https://www.edx.org/course/science-religion-ubcx-religionx
Book What Science Offers the Humanities: https://www.amazon.com/What-Science-Offers-Humanities-Integrating/dp/0521701511
Twitter handle: @slingerland20
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