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06/13/20 • 8 min

The Dissenter

All of you were extremely kind and helpful over these past few months.

I feel very humbled and grateful from the bottom of my heart to you all!

But I am still going through hard times.

In order to sustain the channel, and even to support myself I need your help.

I am trying to get another job to complement what I am getting from the channel, but you certainly now that that is extremely difficult at the moment, due to the impact coronavirus is having on the economy across the globe.

I am going to try my very best, but I am desperate. If you appreciate what I am doing, and have some money you could spare, please help me!

For these past two years and four months, I have brought on the show some of the top academics/scholars in a diversity of fields, like Psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and even Literary Studies.

On my show, you can certainly find informative, well-researched, engaging, and fun interviews on topics that will feed your intellectual interest.

My income for these past two years has depended completely on the donations made by my charitable patrons and Paypal supporters, but, unfortunately, it is not enough.

In today’s society, scientific literacy is ever more important, and, hopefully, I have been contributing to spread knowledge outside of academia in a format that I try my best to be accessible even to laypeople.

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AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, ROSEY, AND JAMES PRATT!

All of you were extremely kind and helpful over these past few months.

I feel very humbled and grateful from the bottom of my heart to you all!

But I am still going through hard times.

In order to sustain the channel, and even to support myself I need your help.

I am going to try my very best, but I am desperate. If you appreciate what I am doing, and have some money you could spare, please help me!

On my show, you can certainly find informative, well-researched, engaging, and fun interviews on topics that will feed your intellectual interest.

My income for these past two years has depended completely on the donations made by my charitable patrons and Paypal supporters, but, unfortunately, it is not enough.

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AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, ROSEY, AND JAMES PRATT!

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#342 H. Clark Barrett: On Mental Adaptations And Modularity Of Mind

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Dr. H. Clark Barrett is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture at UCLA. He is a biological anthropologist specializing in evolutionary psychology, the study of the mind’s evolved mechanisms and processes. In his work he uses methods from anthropology and psychology to examine universals and variation in how thinking develops across cultures. He conducts field research among the Shuar, an indigenous culture in southeast Ecuador, as well as in Los Angeles. His research has focused on learning and conceptual development in several domains, including “theory of mind,” or the ability to make inferences about others’ thoughts and intentions, and learning about danger. He has also collaborated with a variety of anthropologists, psychologists, and other social scientists on a variety of topics ranging from infant-directed speech to the evolution of morality, and supervise graduate projects on the evolution of cognition. He’s the author of the book The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve.

In this episode, we focus on the topic of mental adaptations. We first ask what a mental adaptation is. We also refer to modularity of mind, and talk about domain-specific and domain-general modules. Toward the end, we discuss dual-systems theory, and the role that consciousness plays in decision-making.

A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, ROSEY, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, SERGIU CODREANU, LUIS CAYETANO, MATTHEW LAVENDER, TOM VANEGDOM, AND CURTIS DIXON!

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#343 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 1)

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Dr. Marco Del Giudice is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. In his work he explores a wide range of topics at the intersection of human behavior, evolution, and development. His approach is interdisciplinary and driven by the quest for theoretical synthesis. Over the years he has developed some broad, integrative models: the Adaptive Calibration Model of individual differences in stress responsivity (with Bruce Ellis and Birdie Shirtcliff); an evolutionary-developmental model of sex differences in attachment styles; and a unifying life history framework for evolutionary psychopathology. Most of his current empirical work is devoted to testing, advancing, and refining these models with a variety of research methods. He’s the author of Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach.

In this episode, we focus on psychological gender differences. We talk about personality and risk-taking; univariate and multivariate analyses; the interpersonal circumplex model; cooperation and competition; and gender differences in verbal and non-verbal communication.

This is a 2-part talk on gender differences. The second part will probably be released in August 2020.

A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, ROSEY, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, SERGIU CODREANU, LUIS CAYETANO, MATTHEW LAVENDER, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, AND VEGA GIDEY!

AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MICHAL RUSIECKI!