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You Are Not So Smart

327 - The Trolley Solution - Joshua Greene

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Health, Mental Health, Education, Culture, Mind, Psychology, Brain, Science, Neuroscience, Social Sciences, Business, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Greene tells us how the brain generates morality, and how his research may have solved the infamous trolley problem and in so doing created a way to encourage people to contribute to charities that do the most good.

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0:09.0

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0:14.4

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Middle of the show.

0:31.6

Going down into the middle of the show.

0:34.1

Getting the cool. They were happy.

0:35.1

They went quiet.

0:36.6

And then talking about the power of a gospel. Everybody. Welcome to the You are not so smart

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Episode Episode

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Episode 327

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327.

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When you have an intuition about what's right or wrong, you are going from a psychological is, your own feeling, to at least a tentative moral conclusion.

1:16.6

So anytime we're using our minds to try to figure out what's going on with the world,

1:22.6

we have to acknowledge the possibility that we could be looking at things in a distorted kind of way.

1:35.7

We've the incredible power to help people or hurt people on a massive scale from a distance.

1:42.3

And that is the scariest thing about where we are kind of in our

1:47.1

cultural and technological history. And it's also the greatest opportunity, right? And it's not

1:51.8

just an opportunity for presidents and people with their finger on literal and metaphorical

1:56.1

buttons. It's ordinary people as well. The positive power that ordinary people have is stunning and something that we don't fully appreciate.

2:11.9

That was the voice of Dr. Josh Green, an experimental psychologist, a neuroscientist, and a philosopher.

2:22.6

He teaches at Harvard and he runs a lab there.

2:25.6

He wrote the book titled Moral Tribes and has been involved in all manner of incredible research

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