#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
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4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 169 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:00) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(08:16) - Dark Tetrad - Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Sadism
(29:23) - Serial killers
(43:59) - Murder
(51:51) - Lies and scams
(56:38) - Jealousy
(1:00:07) - Monogamy
(1:05:20) - Sexuality
(1:20:21) - Sexual fetishes
(1:35:56) - Criminal psychology
(1:39:04) - False memories
(2:25:01) - Criminals destroying the planet
(2:40:24) - Hope
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who has written extensively |
| 0:05.7 | on a wide variety of topics that explore human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, |
| 0:12.7 | psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, |
| 0:18.0 | and human sexuality. Her books include evil about the psychology of murder and sadism, |
| 0:25.7 | the memory illusion about false memories, |
| 0:28.5 | Bai about bisexuality, and her new book, |
| 0:31.9 | they should definitely go order now called Green Crime, |
| 0:36.2 | which is a study of the dark underworld of poachers, illegal gold |
| 0:41.0 | miners, corporate frauds, hip men, and all kinds of other environmental criminals. |
| 0:47.5 | Julia is a brilliant and kind-hearted person, with whom I got the chance to have many great |
| 0:53.3 | conversations with on and off the mic. |
| 0:56.4 | This was an honor and a pleasure. |
| 1:00.4 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description or at |
| 1:06.3 | Lextremen.com slash sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Shopify |
| 1:11.9 | for selling stuff online, better help for mental health, element for electrolytes and AG1 |
| 1:18.3 | for my daily multivitamin. Choose wise and my friends. And now onto the full ad reads. I try to make |
| 1:25.4 | them interesting, but if you skip, please still check |
| 1:27.9 | out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. Do you get in touch with me? |
| 1:33.3 | For whatever reason, go to let's streamman.com slash contact. All right, let's go. This episode is |
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| 1:45.9 | online store. Obviously, it's an incredible platform for selling stuff, but again, I will reiterate |
| 1:51.0 | as I do often as we did in the DHHH episode. What's also incredible is the implementation of the |
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