The Dissenter

The Dissenter

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  • #92 Lisa Welling: Hormones and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology

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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 Sex differences

    11:20 When people get in contact with highly attractive individuals    

    15:38 How do women behave when ovulating?    

    19:58 About female orgasm

    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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    50 min
  • #188 Gustavo Carlo: Prosocial And Moral Development In Children And Adolescents

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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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    Researchgate profile: https://bit.ly/2GwEkYG

    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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    1 hr 7 min
  • #91 Lee Jussim: How Stereotypes Work, and the Current State of Social Psychology

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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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    1 hr 1 min
  • #90 Jason Manning: Sociology of Suicide and Terrorism

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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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    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

    ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

    41 min
  • #187 Robert Trivers: Parental Investment, Reciprocal Altruism, Self-Deception

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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 sex 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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    1 hr 42 min
  • Gad Saad Part 2: The Enemies of Truth, Reason and Science

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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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    PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p

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    49 min
  • #186 Felix Warneken: Cooperation And Altruism In Apes And Children

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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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    1 hr 3 min
  • Gad Saad Part 1: The Evolution of Consumer Behavior

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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:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

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    48 min
  • #89 Gad Saad: The Evolution of Consumer Behavior, and the Enemies of Science

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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:

    https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo

    And check out my playlists on:

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    1 hr 36 min
  • #88 David Buss: Evolutionary Psychology, and the Basics of Human Mating

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    Dr. David Buss is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His primary research focus is on strategies of human mating. He’s the author of many books, including The Evolution of Desire, and the first textbook in Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.

    In this episode, we start off by talking a bit about Dr. Buss’ background, and what led him to Evolutionary Psychology. Then, we get into his research on human mating, from the conceptual foundations to universal sex differences in mate preferences, and mate retention tactics. We also discuss how modern technology might be tweaking our brains into preferring short-term mating strategies, namely with things like dating websites and online pornography. And we finish with some current work he’s doing on sexual morality, and if all of this knowledge can help couples with their intimate relationships.

    Time Links:

    00:51 How Dr. Buss got into Evolutionary Psychology 

    05:13 What is Evolutionary Psychology?     

    08:35 Basic concepts to understand human mating  

    18:59 Universal sex differences in mate preferences 

    28:46 Mate retention tactics and jealousy  

    41:15 Sexual effects of dating websites and online pornography     

    47:40 Sexual morality

    51:20 Can we use Evo Psych to improve intimate relationships?

    54:03 Follow Dr. Buss’ work!

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    Follow Dr. Buss’ work:

    Buss Lab: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/

    Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ycfdj4a2

    Books: https://tinyurl.com/ybpered3

    Twitter handle: @ProfDavidBuss

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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

    57 min

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