#290 - Dr Diana Fleischman - How Catching Covid Can Change Your Personality
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#290 - Dr Diana Fleischman - How Catching Covid Can Change Your Personality includes mentions of The Moral Animal by Robert Wright, The Science of Fear by Randy Thornhill, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite, and Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, with indexed source context and timestamps where available.
Indexed context: The host mentions 'The Moral Animal' as a pivotal book that deepened their understanding of evolutionary psychology. They express how the book provid…
Indexed context: The host mentions 'The Science of Fear' to explore how societal fears and anxieties can influence political and cultural conservatism. Thornhill's re…
Indexed context: The host mentions 'Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite' to explore the evolutionary psychology behind moral judgments and hypocrisy in society. This boo…
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- Referenced books include The Moral Animal by Robert Wright and The Science of Fear by Randy Thornhill.
- Related interests include Individuals interested in psychology and human behavior. and Individuals interested in psychology and societal behavior.
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The speaker mentions that reading 'The Moral Animal' made them fall in love with evolutionary psychology, describing it as a book that explains human behavior from first principles.
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Randy Thornhill is the main person who's written a whole book about it. He basically talks about looking at the pathogen load of various different countries and then examining things like liberalism, progressivism, religiosity.
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It's now a few years old and it lays out the whole evolutionary psychology of why we're constantly looking for moral loopholes, looking for ways to indict the behavior of others while maintaining our own behavior.
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I challenge anyone to listen to Alex talk and synthesize stuff like Peter Singer's work and everybody else that's in there.
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The host mentions 'The Moral Animal' as a pivotal book that deepened their understanding of evolutionary psychology. They express how the book prov…
The host mentions 'The Science of Fear' to explore how societal fears and anxieties can influence political and cultural conservatism. Thornhill's…
The host mentions 'Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite' to explore the evolutionary psychology behind moral judgments and hypocrisy in society. This b…
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The film features Jet Li and explores a concept where a police force polices multiple universes, and one can gain strength by eliminating their other selves.