Robert Sapolsky (on human behavior and free will)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Dr. Robert Sapolsky (Behave, Determined) is a behavioral scientist and author. Robert joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he was drawn to studying the social habits of baboons, how their behavior relates to human psychology, and what we learned from Phineas Gage. Robert and Dax talk about how conditioning helps people get through stressful situations, how culture affects the development of the human brain, and how child raising is different in a collective society. Robert explains the myth of grit, how praise and punishment are used to try to shape people, and his view of free will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, come welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dick Van Dyke and I'm joined by
0:06.3	Lily Winsraw
0:09.6	Why were you seeing the pea word?
0:12.8	Because you were dick
0:14.8	pussy Von Willow
0:20.0	Our guess is not decided this is sincerely
0:23.7	Martis even eat on the entire plan. We like to keep it mixed messages here. Oh
0:29.4	Oh my god, because it's Sapolsky. Listen, you guys have heard me talk for a couple years now about
0:35.7	what I think is the most comprehensive book I've ever read in my entire life. It's absolutely mind-bending
0:42.3	Behave. Now, that's the book I've been obsessed with forever by Robert Sapolsky. Dr. Robert Sapolsky
0:47.9	He is a behavioral scientist and best-selling author. He is currently a professor at Stanford University
0:53.9	His books include Behave, which I am a disciple of why zebras don't get ulcers a primates memoir
1:00.5	The trouble with testosterone and his new book out now
1:04.5	Determined a science of life without free will. I was scared of him
1:08.8	Before we met him because I was like, oh my god. How he's gonna say all this stuff that no one can understand?
1:15.2	Yeah, right over our head, but absolutely not he's professor playful should be
1:19.4	Yes, I really like him. Oh fucking relaxed and cool and he made it all layman's terms. Yeah, it's really incredible
1:27.0	I speak and have been nervous. I gave myself an ulcer leading up to this. I was like, how does zebra's have that? That's right
1:33.1	Anything dang because I'm a zebra. No zebras don't get ulcers. Yeah, but yeah, I was so afraid to try to synthesize his
1:40.3	Brilliant thoughts, but he was so helpful and wonderful and playful. Please enjoy Robert Sapolsky
1:49.4	He's a nice dog. Yeah, you have a really handsome four-legged friend next to you. Very nice and looking at the bowl of kibble here in a little cup
2:11.4	He is a little every neuron. He's gotten this head to look at it right now
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