Everyone, Brett McKay here and welcome back to another edition of the Art of Manliness

podcast.

So today's podcast, I'm talking to Juliana Schroeder.

She is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she's

specializing in social cognition, decision and judgment.

And she's a research assistant for a guy named Nicholas Eppley who wrote a book called

Mind-wise, which is a really fascinating book.

And it's all about how our brains are evolved to read the minds of others.

And we'll get into that with that means reading minds of others.

But in a nutshell, it means something we do every day.

Whoever someone says something that might be sort of obtuse tonight is not very explicit.

We are brains trying to figure out what that person really means either through looking

at body language, looking at where they look, the context, a whole bunch of things to figure

out what the other person is thinking.

The research suggests that our brains are evolved for this sort of mind reading.

And in the research for this book, Juliana and Nicholas uncovered a lot of cool insights

about social cognition and how our brain works whenever we try to read the minds of others.

And we're going to talk about that today.

I think there's a lot of great practical takeaways you can take away from this research.

So for example, we're going to talk about how whenever you gain status in some way, either

through position or through money, there's a tendency to dehumanize others where you

think they're not really a person.

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