My Chat with Psychologist Dr. Richard Nisbett (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_350)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Topics covered include Richard's memoir, theories of reasoning (e.g., argumentative theory, Wason selection task), cultures of honor (e.g., the American South), cultural differences, IQ, evolutionary psychology, behavioral decision theory, the University of Michigan, authenticity (Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump), epistemic humility, deontological versus consequentialist ethics, identity politics, Lebanon, Nassim Taleb, interdisciplinarity, variety seeking, the psychology of regret, kindness, and choosing the right mate. Richard's memoir: https://amzn.to/3JXDeEb _______________________________________ 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 (January 10, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1358: https://youtu.be/NsNrQJCHSzw _______________________________________ 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	Hi everybody this is God's
0:03.7	this is God's ad for the sad truth today I have with me one of the certainly
0:07.9	most cited psychologists alive today Richard Nisbit, how are you doing, sir?
0:14.0	Very good. How are you?
0:16.0	Very good. Thanks.
0:17.0	A real pleasure to meet you.
0:18.0	Just for some people who may not know who you are, not everybody is up on the psychologist ecosystem.
0:24.5	You are the Theodore M. Newcomb
0:26.2	Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology
0:28.0	at University of Michigan.
0:29.5	I'll have a personal story about University of Michigan
0:32.2	to tell you later on.
0:34.0	You are the co-director of the Culture and Cognition Program at that university.
0:39.0	Some of the books that you've written, let me just mention them.
0:43.2	I'll also put them in the description of the, in the description section of our chat.
0:48.5	Human inference, induction, the person and the situation, rules for reasoning, culture culture of honor which is very relevant to me since I come from the Middle East
0:56.7	the geography of thought intelligence and how to get it
1:00.1	Mindware and then your latest book to which we're going to talk about today and maybe talk about some other ones,
1:06.2	thinking a memoir. So let's start with your memoir, give us a quick synopsis of your brilliant and interesting life story.
1:14.9	Well, thank you very much. My life story begins in, well,
1:21.5	begins in 1941 in Texas.
1:25.0	And I, excuse me, I grew up in the desert of El Paso and decided to go to college at a place called Tufts, which I had never heard of but I graduated from high school
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