#19: Phobias, Apotemnophilia, Youthful Biases | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 19 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this video include “prepared learning” of phobias, non-human primate parenting, voting bias in kids, and more.
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0:00: Intro
0:19: Question 1 (Prepared Learning and phobias)
8:28: Question 2 (Body integrity identity disorder, apotemnophilia)
12:30: Question 3 (Best non-human primate to raise your kid?)
14:41: Question 4 (Study on voting bias in kids)

[@justinko]

That dog is just sitting there getting a double massage lol

[@Xochitl-ii2cs]

oh god you two switched places how will i know who is who??

[@rachel.s-s]

We just want to help keep your frontal cortexes sharp!

[@robotempire]

Who is WHOM

[@gbernardwandel4174]

Easy peasy Which one of them is science and which one of them is the beard? 🙄 Ok…that was stupid

[@victorianicole8192]

Question: Harambe, the gorilla that was shot in 2016 - was he actually protecting the three year old that went down in his enclosure? Some people say he was violently dragged by the gorilla, others say the gorilla was attempting to keep him safe - what was going on there? I feel like I NEED to know so I can die in peace.

[@mcd5478]

Great question! 👍🏼

[@yx-l2853]

Two questions from Indonesia: 1. To the Offspring: How is it like to be the offspring of a encyclopedic father? 2. What kind of concoction is fed to the golden retriever to become so huge?

[@AbsurdBear]

15:34 The ball drops!! The anticipation throughout the entire video was intense.

[@meee4217]

I LOVE your dog. Omg. I love your whole family. You are all blessed.

[@andrewbaker8373]

I think this series has a wonderful formulae of talents with daughter and dad in presentation and effective communication. Thank you

[@jeremymr]

3:04 - Safi lurking with the ball in her mouth had me in stitches. Totally a cryptid. 😂

[@mcd5478]

5 seconds into the video I realize I’m grinning ear to ear. Safi and the love shown towards this pupperoni calms my brain💛🥰 As always, great Q&A. Thx! 🫶🏻

[@Sylar-451]

I am episodes behind on this channel and deeply ashamed of myself... but one of my very few must watch channels!

[@bhuffman1928]

My favorite show!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Dr S is so great !! Thank you offspring ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

They have such lovely hair.

[@nancychace8619]

Yes, the dog changes everything... Fighting spider discussion reminds me of the jumping frogs of Calaveras County. I think they still have that contest - not sure. Interesting to consider how people make their decisions. Better think long and hard about that one, America.

[@Appleblade]

lol... RS describing these surprising fixations while Arfy-the-Dog is busy showing the world his obsession with that gd ball.

[@Khiff]

Thank you for these videos. A great way to start my day! 😊

[@a.bodhichenevey1601]

Outstanding! I wish the existing social realities could embrace the fact that they are all made up--products of collective brain consensuses--and use the physical reality of the brain's neurobiological mechanisms for making decisions of governance. But then, that would blow up in our face as well. Individually, I guess our goal remains doing the harder better thing until it is easy, and encourage that process in others.

[@christinley5213]

Pleeeease… throw the ball!!!!!!hahaha lol!:) i love that you love doing this.. your passion is contagious:)

[@bradcooke5383]

Love this channel and look forward to weekly videos. I've been a big fan of Dr. Sopolsky for years, especially his book Behave. Thanks so much offspring and Doc.

[@EricAnderson58]

please do a discussion of the influence of circumcision on the infant brain. I only saw in Determined a passing mention of Genital Cutting. I am in court in FL (Pro Se), suing a State Attorney for witholding law enforcement services from juvenile male citizens. The matter is easily reviewed by searching YT for 'infant circumcision procedure.' #intactivism PS-you may enjoy The Hidden Trauma by psychologist Ron Goldman, PHd.

[@ShmoopDooper]

I second this question!

[@CarolaSiegel]

Q1 triggered my internal data machine which keeps spouting thoughts now instead of concentrating on mundane every day chores. 🤪 Ah, body just kicked in with hunger, so I´m back to basics. Amusing myself with topics like fear and emotional reactions postponed to the time after a meal. 😁

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

On question #2, Dr. V.J. Ramachandran has done extensive work in the field of apotemnophilia - quite fascinating, as is this series of yours!

[@philosophicalmixedmedia]

What seems to supervene innate bias to preference morphology of faces is where a cohort as a generation is situated within the modernisation paradigm. So for example baby boomers in contrast to the alpha generation exposure to computational manipulation of the central nervous system.

[@andriyandriychuk]

Andrii from Ukraine asks: what is the future of human evolution and biology?

[@mahakala]

who else moved their big toes?

[@nancychace8619]

Lol - mine twitched.

[@baraka99]

Doggo steals the show

[@paulroberts7767]

My family spent an exciting evening catching Huntsman Spiders with Dr Peter Jager -wonderful man-arachnologist from the University of Düsseldorf. He showed us (ok, my young son; wife and I were just too creeped out) how to catch these big fast predatory spiders by hand! “They can’t really hurt you…much”, he said. Then one particularly large specimen turned and nearly bit him! This exposed Peter’s innate fear, his reaction sending the prize specimen sailing off into the warm Philippine night! 😂

[@benhudson4014]

A Bo Bo and his daughter,,,,,thankyou friends,,,,you resonate with this Quaker!,,,,,

[@stankrobbitt7151]

Bobby Saps looks like Galadriel's customer service rep in this one.

[@carobertson7208]

Thanks for this video series. I would literally prefer to watch your lectures than to watch 99% of movies. Quick question from Hong Kong : do you think karma/selflessness is close to your position on no free will?

[@charlaporro]

lo siento pero mi ingles es demasiado malo y me daria mucha vergüenza equivicarme aqui jajajajaj, acabo de descubir el canal,habia visto antes algunas clases de standford pero no me imaginaba que Robert tuviera un canal propio, solo queria agradecer por todo lo que he aprendido gracias a usted, aunque a veces tengo problemas con el concepto de especie y no estoy seguro si realmente puedo considerarme una comunidad biologica a parte a la de mis padres, y digo padres por poner una linea pero el camino puede seguir mucho mucho mucho mas hacia atras, a veces pienso en toda la vida del planeta como un unico ser, amandose, odiandose, comiendose... lo cual nos hace a todos canibales jajajjaja, osea, mas de lo que ya lo consideraba, y perdon, que me extiendo mucho, gracias por compartir tanta información

[@charlaporro]

una sopa de chispas conscientes, una sopa fungica y canibal, bueno, mucho mas complejo que eso pero me gusta el concepto

[@curiousreporter4292]

Good morning sir sapolsky

[@terenzo50]

Really like your dog.

[@quill444]

1) _Really like your dog._ 🦮 - t 5 0 - 2) _Really like your couch._ 🛋 - j q t - 3) _???_ 🕳

[@jqyhlmnp]

@@quill444the lore deepens

[@uvwuvw-ol3fg]

Chimpanzee groups are ruled by one dominant male, whereas bonobos are ruled by females. Competitions for dominance and mating rights in bonobos shouldn’t be confused with aggression, says Kaplan. “There’s more pointless violence in chimpanzees and humans than in other species like bonobos,” she says.

[@impressivebat8096]

👏👏❤️👍

[@bradsillasen1972]

@7:27 Can't belive he's explaining all this to his dog ...must be one smart canine, doesn't even ask questions.

[@dionysusnow]

He was very attentive but kind of dropped the ball at the end.

[@xstensl8823]

a long time ago when i was a child i read the Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

[@leonblythe3194]

I’m already not listening to “after the mutiny” this privateer probably has the credits to not listen to that one either

[@Victor-tw1ls]

Please give a link of the study of predicting conservative views in kids

[@susanjames8134]

What’s the dog’s name? He’s totally loving the tone/vibration of his lesson.

[@StopWhining491]

Is there any creature that we don't exploit?

[@jf-jx4ym]

I keep forgetting to fear. Probably why I am listening and considering to understand human rights crime.

[@jf-jx4ym]

Psychiatry,medicine and modern science involved=sucide. But but its somehow ok. Because socially accepted.

[@ShmoopDooper]

Any current humans rights issues you feel strongly about?

[@jf-jx4ym]

​​@@ShmoopDooperNot right now. Probably For month or so I have irrational fear that someone will hack cars to chase dogs and I am also under an Illusion of this exact thing... That I lose My leg and feel like cutting it off. Its being a disorder to me. I also have a theory that women pulling on dog leashes wrong are source of many animal crimes. Dogs e.g could probably learn to lead cars.

[@ShmoopDooper]

@@jf-jx4ym oh my! I hope you have someone like a counselor to confide in, it is good to be able to express yourself to someone rather than “bottle it up” :)

[@hotbit7327]

The conclusion is that - the age limit in elections is wrong, 5 y.o. kids would choose the same most of the time!

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

boston dynamics

[@nunya321]

do ppl feel better after they've been amputated?

[@bradsillasen1972]

Was gonna ask about clown phobia but I think Apotemnophilia covers weird stuff.

[@mahakala]

who asked the second question?

[@mahakala]

orlando gibbons

[@Lance-lightning]

So is that a scientific beard then? I was always conditioned not to trust those with a handle bar moustache. I wonder if the apotemnophilia happens with regard to body hair.

[@mezquitic]

[@---Dana----]

I have heard that male pleasure centers are triggered by selfish behavior and women's pleasure centers are triggered by doing for others. Is this true and is it biological?

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

the comedy factor is nothing to scoff at.

[@scenFor109]

Completely de-register as a voter. Remember that a statement of sovereignty is not secular.

[@cedricburkhart3738]

So is he saying that we might respect him more because of his massive beard?