A Bit More Complicated

Episode 1 - With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? with Will Blakey

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[UPDATED AUDIO] In this episode, Manny and Dylan chat with Will Blakey, a post-bac researcher at UNC. Will, along with social psychologist Kurt Gray, recently published a Substack article about our changing perceptions of evil in the world, and a psychological phenomenon known as “concept creep.” Why do we see more villains in the world now compared to 30 years ago?

Notes:

  • Will and Kurt’s Substack article.
  • Haslam (2016) Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology, Psychological Inquiry, 27:1, 1-17
  • Haslam et al. (2021) Concept Creep and Psychiatrization. Frontiers in Sociology.
  • Concept Creep example #1 and example #2.
  • Gray & Wegner (2012). Morality takes two: Dyadic morality and mind perception.
  • Pinker (2011): The Better Angels of Our Nature.
  • Ferguson (2009): Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality
  • The Progress Paradox
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