My 2016 Chat with Dr. David Buss, Pioneer of Evolutionary Psychology (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_317)

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

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We discuss many issues dealing with evolutionary psychology including universal mate preferences, sexual morality, detractors' cognitive, affective, and ideological obstacles, applications of this perspective in various fields (e.g., in advertising), and science outreach, among other topics. _______________________________________ David's Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/David-M.-Buss/e/B000AP5RSU David's Twitter handle: @ProfDavidBuss David's university website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/psychology/faculty/bussdm _______________________________________ This chat was posted originally on Ora.tv back in 2016 and on my YouTube channel on April 17, 2016 as THE SAAD TRUTH_160: https://youtu.be/VU3Bwyo8crQ _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Okay guys on the heels of having the great Jerry Coyne on the show last week
0:06.5	I've got another huge evolutionist and truly one of the pioneers of
0:12.0	evolutionary psychology.
0:13.4	David Bus, how you doing David?
0:15.4	I'm doing well, how are you doing good?
0:17.6	Thank you.
0:18.6	I'm doing great and doing better now that I have you on the show.
0:21.4	A lot of people have been wanting for us to sit down so it's a true honor I still remember as though it were yesterday
0:27.1	I think the first time that I met you of course I knew of your work before meeting you but I think we first met at the H Best Conference at University
0:36.3	City or University College London in 2001 and many other people who were in the audience that day listening to my talk
0:45.7	are some of the pioneers of evolution psychology you know Wilson and daily and
0:50.0	you and and Cosmetes and two-by So sort of my introduction to the H-Bess crowd was was a quite a baptism by fire so that's what I remember from our first encounter.
1:00.2	Yes. So I want meeting that was a that was a very fun meeting and of course for me it was a great meeting because I got to meet all you guys.
1:07.0	So I wanted to just introduce you to some of the folks who may not know of your work.
1:13.0	So you're a professor of psychology at UT Austin,
1:16.0	your PhD from Berkeley, I believe.
1:18.1	Then you went to Harvard and University of Michigan,
1:21.0	where there are actually quite a hotbed of evolutionary
1:23.8	behavioral scientists there.
1:26.2	Over 45,000 Google Scholar citations, I can assure the world that I will never reach that number even if I live to be a
1:35.3	hundred years so that's unbelievable metrics. Some of your books I won't list
1:39.8	them all some of the recent ones why women have sex, the murderer next door, the dangerous passion,
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