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Episode 35
Dave and Tamler talk about the influence of character judgments on attributions of blame. What is the function of the blame--to assign responsibility…
12 years, 10 months ago
Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson)
Episode 34
Special guest Will Wilkinson joins the podcast to talk about whether fiction makes us better people, and to discuss his recent Daily Beast article th…
12 years, 10 months ago
Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)
Episode 33
Special guest Laurie Santos (Psychology, Yale) joins us to talk about what animal cognition can tell us about human nature. Why are other primates be…
12 years, 11 months ago
Disagreeing About Disagreement
Episode 32
Part II of our discussion on Rai and Fiske (sort of): We answer a listener's email and in the process get into an episode long argument about moral …
12 years, 11 months ago
An Anthropologist's Guide to Moral Psychology (Pt. 1)
Episode 31
In the first of a two-part episode, we discuss one of our favorite recent papers--Tage Rai and Alan Page Fiske's 2011 paper on how social relationshi…
13 years ago
The Greatest Books Ever Written
Episode 30
Dave and Tamler celebrate their one year anniversary and 30th episode with one of their least cynical episodes yet. They talk about 5 philosophy/psyc…
13 years ago
PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers"
Episode 29
Dave and Tamler try to artificially bulk up their expertise on the ethics of performance enhancing drugs and end up raising a lot more questions than…
13 years, 1 month ago
Moral Persuasion
Episode 28
Dave and Tamler try their best to do a show without guests--we talk about moral persuasion, motivated reasoning, and whether it's legitimate to use e…
13 years, 1 month ago
You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Episode 27
Our streak of very special guests continues! Philosopher Eddy Nahmias joins the podcast to us why people mistakenly think they're not morally respon…
13 years, 2 months ago
Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)
Episode 26
Psychologist and author Jesse Bering joins us to talk about evolutionary psychology and his forthcoming book Perv. In the relatively uncontroversia…
13 years, 2 months ago