My Chat with Dr. David Buss, Author of When Men Behave Badly (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_295)

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Topics covered include evolutionary psychology, sexual variety, sexual conflict, human mating, infidelity, sex differences, social constructivism, science denialism, the dark triad of personality, gift giving, intellectual variety, nomological networks of cumulative evidence, public engagement, regret in life, and Hammurabi's Code. _______________________________________ Dr. David Buss is one of the pioneers of evolutionary psychology and a leading scientist on the evolutionary roots of human mating preferences. He is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas-Austin. He has previously held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has authored countless scientific publications and several books including his most recent one titled When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault. _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier today (October 8, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1311: https://youtu.be/jLdLgNc0Qpk _______________________________________ 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	Hey guys this is one of those rare occasions where I have a repeat guest today I have
0:08.9	with me one of the pioneers of evolutionary psychology.
0:13.0	Dr David Bus, hey David, how you doing?
0:15.6	Hey, pretty good.
0:17.7	It's so good to go ahead, go ahead.
0:19.8	Oh, I was just saying, I was just thinking
0:21.0	about how long we've known each other and I remember meeting you at the
0:25.6	address conference in London which was 20 years ago I believe now I might have met you before that, but that's my first memory.
0:33.2	That is the person.
0:34.6	Well, thank you for remembering because that meeting should be a lot more memorable to me
0:39.7	than to you given our deferring status
0:42.8	back then, I might argue even today.
0:46.3	It was in 2001.
0:48.0	It was at UCL University College London. It was at the H-Bess meetings that year and I was giving a talk on
0:56.8	you know mating issues specifically information search in May Choice which was very much within my wheelhouse because my doctoral
1:06.0	dissertation was on, when is it that you've acquired enough information to stop acquiring additional
1:12.0	information and commit to a choice.
1:13.5	So I looked at stopping strategies.
1:15.4	And in the back of the room sitting were David Bus, Margot Wilson, Martin Daly, Lita Cosmetes, and John Toby, and I had come up to you guys and you were all unbelievably
1:29.7	gracious and I thought this is unbelievable.
1:32.1	I'm meeting all of the pioneers of evolutionary
1:35.4	psychology how did I do in that that talk do you remember it all was I okay?
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