John V. Petrocelli

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Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with John V. Petrocelli - an experimental social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science of communication and decision making. He is a Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University, teaching social psychology and judgment and decision making. He is also the author of The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit. His research examines the causes and consequences of bullshit and bullshitting in the way of better understanding and improving bullshit detection and disposal.

Petrocelli’s research contributions also include attitudes and persuasion and the intersections of counterfactual thinking with learning, memory and decision making. His research and writings have been featured by the Wall Street Journal and in his popular TEDx Talk, Why BS is More Dangerous Than a Lie. In addition to his research and position as an Associate Editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, he has authored over 50 papers in his field’s most prestigious journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, British Journal of Social Psychology, and Thinking and Reasoning. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and research achievements.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson.
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0:23.0	Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:25.2	I am really excited about this conversation today.
0:27.9	John Petrcelli is joining us.
0:29.5	He is an experimental social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science
0:34.6	of communication and decision making.
0:36.6	He's a professor of psychology
0:38.4	at Wake Forest University teaching social psychology and judgment and decision-making. He's also
0:44.7	the author of, get a load of this title, The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit. His research
0:51.7	examines the causes and consequences of bullshit and bullshitting in the way of
0:56.2	better understanding and improving bullshit detection and disposal. So, welcome to the show, John.
1:01.7	Thank you. Thank you for having me.
1:04.1	You know, when I saw the title of your book, I knew I had to interview you. I had a nickname in
1:10.0	college. People literally called me no shit,
1:12.8	Russ. And one of the reasons was, is I, you know, maybe it's just from being from downtown
1:18.7	Chicago and having this very like, tell it like it is persona, which is really who I am. But they were
1:24.9	like, yeah, you don't take any shit. You don't like give out any shit.
1:27.7	You don't put up with shit. That kind of thing. So they just started calling me no shit.
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