#515 - David & Douglas Kenrick - Evolved Psychology Vs The Modern World
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
David Lundberg Kenrick is the Psychology Program Manager at Arizona State University and Douglas Kenrick is a Professor of psychology at Arizona State University.
Our brains were designed to exist in a very different environment to the one they find themselves in. Managing modern problems with stone-age operating systems causes us to act in strange, suboptimal, silly ways. Which is why it's so important to understand how our minds developed.
Expect to learn just how violent humans were ancestrally, why more people die of obesity than starvation in 2022, whether dominance or prestige is more important at getting ahead, whether ancient humans felt love the same way we do now, why human females go through menopause, the relationship between dominance and attraction and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to this show. My guests today are David Lundberg, Kenrek and Douglas |
| 0:05.8 | Kenrek. David is the Psychology Program Manager at Arizona State University and Douglas is |
| 0:10.4 | Professor of Psychology at Arizona State. Our brains were designed to exist in a very different |
| 0:16.0 | environment to the one they find themselves in now. Managing modern problems with Stone Age operating |
| 0:21.4 | systems causes us to act in strange, suboptimal silly ways, which is why it's so important to |
| 0:27.9 | understand how our minds developed. Expect to learn just how violent humans were, |
| 0:32.7 | ancestral why more people die of obesity than starvation in 2022, whether dominance or prestige |
| 0:39.2 | is more important at getting ahead, whether ancient humans felt loved the same way we do now, |
| 0:44.3 | why human females go through menopause, the relationship between dominance and attraction, |
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