Episode 64: Believing in a Just World

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Tamler talk about the human tendency to believe in a just world. Why do we have the belief? Does it make us less motivated to fight injustice? How does it connect to our beliefs about free will and punishment? Plus, the SAE incident—a case where the twitter mob did some good? And Tamler changes his mind about Harmony the Hamster.

Links

As Two Oklahoma Students Are Expelled for Racist Chant, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Vows Wider Inquiry [nytimes.com]
Just World Hypothesis [wikipedia.org]
System Justification [wikipedia.org]
The Future of The Culture Wars is Here, and it's Gamergate [deadspin.com]
Lerner, M. J., & Simmons, C. H. (1966). Observer’s reaction to the “innocent victim”: Compassion or rejection? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4(2), 203–210. [MIT.edu]
Clark, C. J., Luguri, J. B., Ditto, P. H., Knobe, J., Shariff, A. F., & Baumeister, R. F. (2014). Free to punish: A motivated account of free will belief. Journal of personality and social psychology, 106(4), 501. [sharifflab.com]
Sommers, T. (2007). 4 The Illusion of Freedom Evolves. Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context, 61.
Pizarro, D.A. & Helzer, E. (2010). Freedom of the will and stubborn moralism. In Baumeister, R.F., A.R. Mele, and K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Free will and consciousness: How might they work? (pp. 101-120) Oxford University Press. [peezer.net]
Sartre is Smartre [vimeo.com]

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro, having
0:06.6	an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.8	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, and knowing
0:14.4	my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.4	I used to be just like you.
0:23.2	Just like you, you, you, you.
0:25.6	Used to clown around.
0:29.0	And I found out the principal.
0:32.2	With milk on my head.
0:33.8	Just like you, I'd regress.
0:37.9	And then I got hit with AIDS.
0:59.0	Who are you?
1:01.0	Who are you?
1:03.0	I'm very bad man.
1:05.0	I'm a very good man.
1:07.0	Good man.
1:09.0	They think he's lost.
1:11.0	And with no more brains than you have.
1:13.0	Way to our attention.
1:15.0	Come on man.
1:17.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:23.0	You're a very bad man.
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