Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths - Dr Kevin Dutton - #552

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11/14/22

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72m

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Dr Kevin Dutton is a psychologist, author, and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on persuasion and social influence, psychopathic personality and elite cognition.

Psychopaths get a bad rap. Perhaps understandably. They have a branding problem to say the least. But there are some personality traits like emotional control, focus, drive and single-mindedness that elite performers can model off of psychopaths to improve their effectiveness.

Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in world war 2 didn't make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation for huge biases to occur and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (03:13) Why Does Psychopathy Exist? (10:05) Psychology of Penalty Shootouts (18:01) The Human Ability to Categorise (28:13) Lessons on Narrow Focus from Hoarders (38:55) Kevin’s Studies of Conmen (47:30) The Evolution of Super-Categories (55:49) Why a Different Accent Evokes Prejudice (1:02:13) How Brains Conflate Simplicity with Truth (1:11:33) Where to Find Dr Dutton

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How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness? - Patrick House - #551

November 12, 2022

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Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer whose research focuses on free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host's behaviour.

If it wasn't for us experiencing it, the universe would give us no indication that consciousness even exists. The most fundamental part of human experience has many proposed explanations, but just how well-grounded are these, and what are we missing?

Expect to learn why removing parts of the brain change some aspects of the self but not all of them, what it's like for animals who can put half of their brain to sleep at once, how the brain is intimately linked with timekeeping, why almost all explanations of consciousness are unsatisfactory, what the future of brain-research looks like and much more...

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The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship - Dr Jaimie Krems - #553

November 17, 2022

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90m

Dr Jaimie Krems is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and a social psychologist whose research explores human social cognition, emotions, and behaviour.

Evolution has shaped the way that men and women make and break friendships. It's made us into life-saving, caring, aggressive, jealous, friend-guarding, backbiting, gossiping animals, but why is it that male and female friendships are so different, plus a ton of other fascinating insights.

Expect to learn why a woman's body shape is so important to her attractiveness, why venting is a manipulative social strategy, how men with dad bods are literally perceived as better dads, why women who have casual sex are seen as having lower self-esteem even though there's no data to back it up, how a pro-life stance on abortion might be less virtuous than people first think and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:24) How Male & Female Friendships Differ (08:38) The Female Need to Vent (18:01) How Attractiveness Impacts Female Friendships (25:30) Finding a Balance of Jealousy (31:49) Perceiving Women’s Shapes & Sizes (41:54) Why Women Dress the Way They Do (47:56) Does Slut-Shaming Come More From Men Than Women? (55:33) Attitudes to Abortion as a Mating Strategy (1:06:47) Impact of Sexual Strategy on Religious Beliefs (1:11:26) Relationship Between Casual Sex & Self-Esteem (1:19:29) What’s Next for Jaimie’s Research (1:24:46) The Need for Friendship for Happiness (1:29:34) Where to Find Dr Krems

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