My Chat with Dr. Darren Dahl, Former Co-editor of the Journal of Consumer Research (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_274)

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Topics that we covered include the importance of conducting meaningful research, viewing research as a form of play, the value of interdisciplinary science, several papers stemming from Darren's research career (food choices, contamination fears, speech characteristics, and condom use), the value of science outreach, political correctness on university campuses, and the pros and cons of being a professor. _______________________________________ This chat was originally posted on my YouTube channel on March 26, 2016 as THE SAAD TRUTH_149: https://youtu.be/ti_BRx8f2Fw. At the time of the conversation, Darren was one of the co-editors of the Journal of Consumer Research. _______________________________________ 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 was released on October 6, 2020. 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	All right, guys, I've got a big fish for you today.
0:05.0	A good friend and a fantastic scholar and a true gentleman.
0:09.0	Darren Dahl, let me just introduce him before I see the floor to him.
0:13.8	He's a chairful professor at University of British Columbia,
0:17.0	so he is Canadian, proud of that.
0:19.4	He has a senior associate deanship right now so maybe we'll talk about some of these
0:25.8	administrative challenges that he probably faces.
0:29.8	Over 5,000 citations on Google Scholar. Recently, there was a tally of the most productive marketing
0:38.4	academics who've published in the leading marketing journals from 2009 to 2013,
0:43.3	and the gentleman that I have on my show today ranked number one.
0:47.6	So a true top scholar and co-editor of the Journal of Consumer Research.
0:53.3	Hey Darren, how you doing buddy?
0:54.9	I'm doing well.
0:55.9	Thanks for having me on.
0:56.9	Oh, I'm very, very excited to have you on.
0:58.4	Thank you for agreeing to be on.
1:00.0	I thought I would start maybe first, sort of with a very broad topic and that is your, when you first became
1:06.2	co-editor of JCR you wrote, as often happens with editors, they write sort of their vision of what they're going to do.
1:12.4	And I think the vision of the four
1:14.6	co-editors that had been appointed at that point was to conduct meaningful research.
1:20.1	So maybe you could start us off by talking about that first summarizing your editorial and if anything is changing your thinking about the issue, tell us about it.
1:28.0	Well, I think when we came in, you know, like you said, all editors want to make a statement. And what's funny about that is it kind of feels like every statement has already been made. And so we didn't really know, you know, well, how can we be a bit different?
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