The Psychology of Irrational Empathy - Fueling Cultural Chaos (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_834)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Original link to Dr. Scott Atlas' show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjlC8Jnw70c&t=1s _______________________________________ 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 To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on May 7, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1852: https://youtu.be/Qxywj4-PsuQ _______________________________________ 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	Thank you for joining us. I'm Scott Atlas. Welcome to The Independent, my show that tries to bring a
0:05.5	rational perspective to some of the more complicated issues facing society today. Today's guest is
0:11.7	Gad Saad. He's a professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal and is serving as a
0:18.5	visiting professor at Northwood University. Professor Sade has
0:22.4	pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. His works
0:28.7	include several books and published papers, many at the intersection of psychology with
0:33.9	advertising, medicine, and economics. He's also working on a new book, Suicidal Empathy,
0:40.3	which follows the 2020 release of his previous bestseller,
0:44.4	The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense.
0:49.9	His YouTube channel and podcast, both called the Saad Truth, S-A-A-A-D, have garnered millions of views.
0:59.0	Gat and I have a conversation about what he sees today and how he explains the behavior and thinking of the public, especially young adults,
1:07.0	and relates it to what might come next in the interplay between the media, universities,
1:12.9	politics, and public behavior.
1:14.9	Thanks for joining us and stay tuned.
1:22.3	Okay, Gadzad, welcome.
1:25.4	Thank you for coming.
1:26.6	It's so good to be with you.
1:28.3	I can't believe it's been more than two years since the Global Liberty Institute in Florida.
1:34.3	So great to be with you, Scott.
1:36.3	Thank you.
1:37.3	Right.
1:38.3	And that you were at the first of that meeting, which of course, as you know, is intended to think not just short term,
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