Episode 83: Ego Trip

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler continue their series of breaking down a classic essay/article in their fields. For this installment, David assigns Tamler Anthony Greenwald's fascinating 1980 review article "The Totalitarian Ego." What do totalitarian regimes, scientific theories, and your own cognitive biases have in common? As it turns out, quite a bit. Why do egos rewrite our memories, preserve our beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence, and make us think we're way more important than we are? And how does Thomas Kuhn fit into all this? Plus, we read a few of our favorite iTunes reviews.

Links

Audience video of Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2016 Session on Moral Purity with Kurt Gray, Jon Haidt, David Pizarro (courtesy of Kate Johnson) [youtube.com]
Greenwald, A. G. (1980). The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history. American psychologist, 35, 603. [verybadwizards.com]

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	You're a shallow, talkative, empty-headed nerd, too well.
0:21.8	And to remain silent would destroy you.
0:25.4	The lady on his phone can pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:35.4	Who are you?
0:41.4	Who are you?
0:43.4	I'm very bad men.
0:44.4	I'm a very good man.
0:45.4	Good man.
0:46.4	Good man.
0:49.4	Placing deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
0:56.4	They know our attention.
0:57.4	Come on, man.
0:59.4	Anybody can have a brain.
1:04.4	You're a very bad man.
1:08.4	I'm a very good man.
1:10.4	Just a very bad wizard.
1:13.4	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:14.4	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
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