Joseph Henrich (professor of human evolutionary biology)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Joseph Henrich (The WEIRDest People in the World) is an author and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard. Joseph joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how cultural relativity affects people's views on morality, how humans are obsessed with time, and what the marshmallow test says about people's need to stockpile resources. Joseph and Dax talk about where the idea of the hourly worker came from, how most social experiments are done on American undergraduates, and how inconsistent human thinking can be. Joseph discusses the current pushback on human rights, how the internet can be used to preserve knowledge for future generations, and how the brain can update itself like firmware through life experiences. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:03.7	I'm modest mouse and I'm joined by...
0:06.9	D Sheppard.
0:08.1	We've switched chairs.
0:09.2	I wonder if you can feel it in this intro.
0:11.6	I feel small in the seat. you look preposterously tiny and the lazy but your feet barely come off the end of the
0:19.0	cushion I sit on.
0:20.0	They don't even like bend, like they just stick straight out. That's right. It's not even that they don't touch the floor. They're not even bent.
0:27.3	Do your feet touch the floor in this? Oh God yes. Oh my God You're so much taller than me.
0:34.0	Yeah, that's just occurring to you here.
0:36.8	Easy for me to forget.
0:38.2	Seven years into our friendship.
0:39.3	What else does I forget?
0:40.8	This is a long time coming because I've been talking about it incessantly my favorite book I've read I think in the last year or so is the weirdest people in the world
0:49.2	How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.
0:55.6	This book it really shook my thinking.
0:57.9	It did. I feel like it was a watershed moment for you.
1:00.7	Oh, thank you.
1:01.7	Very great. Yeah, definitely a before and after. Do you remember where you were when you read? That'll be what people ask. Yeah. I see it all the time now. I see it all the time. And then talking to him him he gave us even more tidbits.
1:13.4	Yeah it was really fascinating I really enjoyed it as well.
1:17.2	We think different y'all if you're listening to this probably you think different
1:20.9	and you're considered weird probably if you listen to this yeah weird Western
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