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RECORDED ON JUNE 19th 2020.
Dr. Joseph Henrich is Professor and chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is interested in the question of how humans evolved from "being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe", and how culture affected our genetic development. He is also the author of The Secret of Our Success and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous.
In this episode, we focus on Dr. Henrich’s new book, The WEIRDest People in the World. We first talk about innate anchors, how societies evolved in complexity, the role that agriculture played, and the various aspects of WEIRD psychology. We then get into the Catholic Church’s Marriage and Family Program of the Middle Ages, and the different aspects of sociality that it influenced, including marriage, monogamy, urbanization, legal systems, work ethics, and even science and the Enlightenment values. We also talk about how we might evolve psychologically in the future, social engineering, and the replication crisis in social psychology. Toward the end, we answer some questions from a follower.
Time Links:
00:42 Innate anchors
06:00 The rise of chiefdoms
08:18 What agriculture changed
12:17 WEIRD and non-WEIRD psychologies
14:51 Emotions, guilt and shame
20:40 Impersonal prosociality
23:48 Can harmful norms and institutions last in human societies?
27:22 The Catholic Church’s Marriage and Family Program
40:07 Kinship in China, and rice cultivation and irrigation
41:59 Monogamous marriage
44:15 Market integration
45:57 New systems of law
48:24 Values of the Enlightenment
55:42 Work ethics
1:00:04 The development of science
1:03:37 The industrial revolution in England
1:06:32 The future
1:08:12 Social engineering
1:09:29 The replication crisis in social psychology
1:11:42 Questions from a follower
1:23:20 Follow Dr. Henrich’s work!
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Works on ResearchGate: bit.ly/35jLQku
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Twitter handle: @JoHenrich
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[@JayzsMr]

Great interview with one of the leading minds of social science and humans psychology. I hope you get more views eventually

[@maxheadrom3088]

Ricardo! Nice video! Abraços brasileiros!!!

[@tfarhat501]

The example of reading & the bible in the 16th century sounds weird and can't generalize, but perhaps it's just meant as a local example 🤔

[@vanessat9309]

Male circumcision is arguably also maladaptive, and that has lasted for thousands of years.

[@maxmetpt]

Just a heads-up: I'm getting adds every minute or two (not exaggerating). This makes it very difficult to follow the conversation with the constant interruptions - which I assume is not what you want, as it defeats the whole point of the show.

[@TheDissenterRL]

If it bother you, could you try using AdBlock? I am still trying to figure out how to have ads on without having too many of them, with the new uploading tool.

[@maxmetpt]

@@TheDissenterRL Sure, no worries. I'm just giving you feedback because the ads were really too much, today. Perhaps having one ad between every topic (or every 2, 3, 4 topics) would be better for the flow of the conversation (as you already have the timers in the description).

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Way too many ad interruptions, really annoying.

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