My Chat with Psychologist Dr. John Staddon, Author of Science in an Age of Unreason (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_433)

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

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This chat was taped on June 17, 2022. Topics include behaviorism, evolutionary psychology, optimality models, leading scientists (e.g., Charles Darwin, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Bill Hamilton, B. F. Skinner), religion, morality, reason, interdisciplinarity, the practice of science, and challenges in academia (wokeness, cowardice, herd mentality, careerism, lack of creativity). To order John's latest book: https://www.regnery.com/9781684512522/science-in-an-age-of-unreason/ _______________________________________ 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 clip was posted earlier today (August 9, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1436: https://youtu.be/tP2bMu_KNKg _______________________________________ 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 delighted today to have with me Professor John Stadden I hope I did I pronounce that property you got it all right he is the James B Duke, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Biology Emeritus at Duke University.
0:17.4	He has a Psychology Today blog titled Adaptive Behavior.
0:21.0	As an Evolutionary Psychologist, I'm always excited to see the word
0:23.8	adaptive anywhere so thank you for that the author of countless academic papers and
0:28.8	several books let me mention these books I'll begin with the most recent one
0:32.4	the one that will be the
0:33.7	foundation of much of our discussion today. People you need to get this book
0:37.4	Science in an age of unreason, published by my own publisher of the
0:42.0	parasitic mind, Regnery, the amazing publisher. The new
0:47.6	behaviorism, foundations of behavioral science, third edition came out last year
0:51.2	scientific method, how science works, fails to work and
0:54.6	pretends to work. Maybe we'll talk about that. Then you have a memoir about six years
0:59.7	ago, The Englishman, memoirs of a psychobiologist. I love seeing the word psychology and biology together.
1:06.4	That's what I've been doing my entire life, so thank you for that.
1:09.1	Adaptive behavior and learning, adaptive dynamics, the theoretical analysis of behavior, and then one. and of smoking. Did I cover most of the important issues John?
1:23.4	You absolutely did except there's a new edition of Unlucky Strike.
1:27.8	Oh!
1:28.8	Which was the stimulus for which was getting the manuscript to the book written by Alan Silverberg. You might even know his name. He's a psychologist. I hadn't seen him for 30 years, but he had written on the same topic 10 years earlier but never published it.
1:43.6	So I tried to put the two of them together and that's called Unlucky Strike Second Edition.
1:48.0	It's available on Amazon.
1:51.0	Very nice. All right, great.
1:53.0	So as I mentioned before we came on air, I thought that we would start off with some of your, you know, academic
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