Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

Links

"I happen to have Marshall Mcluhan right here." (From Woody Allen's Annie Hall.) Longer HD version here
Joe Henrich UBC.ca | Wikipedia
The Machiguenga [wikipedia.org]
Henrich on Brosnan and DeWaal's capuchin inequity aversion study.
Chicha [wikipedia.org]
How much money would it take for you to kill a puppy? [liveleak.com]
Relevant papers are listed in the notes for Episode 17: Learning About Bushmen from Studying Freshmen?

Special Guest: Joe Henrich.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.8	Haha! Oh my god! I almost didn't do it! I almost didn't do it! I thought he's
0:21.9	this in bad taste, but you know what? I went for it! I went for it, and I'm so glad I did!
0:26.4	Oh, worth it! Totally worth it!
0:56.4	And with no more brains than you have.
1:06.4	Anybody can have a brain?
1:08.4	You're a very bad man!
1:12.4	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:16.4	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:20.4	And I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:22.4	And this is a podcast where we talk about issues in philosophy and psychology,
1:26.9	moral psychology, in a very informal manner.
1:31.1	And today is another one of our very special episodes on a very special episode.
1:38.4	It's like an after school special.
1:40.4	Very bad wizards. We actually have on our podcast the researcher that we were talking about
1:47.9	in our last episode. So let's get that started.
1:51.2	Wait a minute. Why can't I give my opinion?
1:53.2	This is a free country.
1:54.4	He can give you. Do I have to give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that?
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