Episode 216: Oral Judgments
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
We’ve promised you for years that we would do an episode on apologies and never got to it until today. So we both want to say from the bottom of our hearts: we’re sorry. We recognize we’ve let so many of our listeners down, and we feel just awful if you were offended by the delay. We hope this episode will be just one small step towards regaining your trust.
Plus, of all the evo-psych articles in the world, this one might be the evo-psychiest: “Oral Sex as Infidelity Detection.”
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Links:
- Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013). Oral sex as infidelity-detection. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(6), 792-795. — From the abstract: "The infidelity-detection hypothesis for oral sex proposes that men perform oral sex to gather information about their partner’s recent sexual history."
- Clearer Thinking | How to apologise
- Schumann, K., & Dragotta, A. (2020). Is moral redemption possible? The effectiveness of public apologies for sexual misconduct. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 104002.
- Ohtsubo, Y., & Watanabe, E. (2009). Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(2), 114-123.
- I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies by Nick Smith :: SSRN
- Dan Harmon Apologizes for Sexually Harassing Megan Ganz | Time
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs 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. |
| 0:17.0 | I got two hard rules I live by, Pop. I don't fuck with the devil, |
| 0:21.5 | and I never do tag teams with blood relatives. |
| 0:23.6 | The pain in my head is broken. |
| 0:32.3 | I know our attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:40.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.9 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.5 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:47.8 | Good man. |
| 0:48.9 | They think we've lost and we're no more brains than you have. |
| 0:55.6 | They knew our attention, so I'm bad man. |
| 1:01.8 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:06.1 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:07.9 | You're a very good man. |
| 1:09.9 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:17.1 | Dave, this is so last month, but while I was off the grid, Richard Dawkins started a tweet |
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