The Wright Show - Robert Wright Speaks with Leda Cosmides (University of California-Santa Barbara)

Last week's episode of The Wright Show featured Robert Wright in conversation with Leda Cosmides, an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology. Good discussion.

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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero) and Leda Cosmides (University of California-Santa Barbara)


The Wright Show | Feb 22, 2014 | Robert Wright & Leda Cosmides

Does a man’s physique shape his ideology? 5:36
The modular view of the mind 12:17
What is this thing you call “you,” anyway? 14:39
Conscious and unconscious modules 15:29
Addiction and the ancestral environment 4:57
Can evolutionary psychology save the world? 8:55

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Recorded: Feb 2 Posted: Feb 22, 2014
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Links Mentioned

• Leda's paper on male upper-body strength
• Bob's diavlog with Rob Kurzban
• Jerry Fodor's book "Modularity of Mind"
• Leda's paper on evolutionary psychology and emotions

The Wright Show - Robert Wright Speaks with Douglas Kenrick (Arizona State University, The Rational Animal)

 

Here is another interesting and informative episode of The Wright Show from bloggingheads.tv - this week Robert Wright speaks with ASU professor Douglas Kenrick about his recent book, The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think.

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Robert Wright & Douglas Kenrick | Feb 15, 2014


Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God) and Douglas Kenrick (Arizona State University, The Rational Animal)

Doug's book, "The Rational Animal" 9:49

How our seven "subselves" see the world differently 7:11

Beauty, strength, and status 9:18

How humans evolved to be bad at economics 5:45

Is objectivity possible? 5:02

When a caveman gets behind the wheel 4:50

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Recorded: Feb 7 Posted: Feb 15, 2014
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Links Mentioned

Doug's book, "The Rational Animal"
Mark Schaller's Wikipedia page
Martie Haselton's UCLA faculty page
"Judgment under Uncertainty" by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
Robert Kurzban on oxytocin
Bob's diavlog with Jonathan Haidt about his book, "The Righteous Mind"