Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)

• Mating with Daniel Conroy-Beam

  Guest Daniel Conroy-Beam (UCSB) explains why human mating has occupied the interest of evolutionary psychologists, what consequences this has had on science, and how things might be done better. If you want to understand the science behind why we prefer certain other people to bonk, don’t listen to this episode (we’re kidding, this is exactly what Dan studies).    More about Daniel Conroy-Beam:    Computational Mate Choice @ UCSB   https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/daniel-conroy-beam    More about David Pinsof:    https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/   https://www.kremslab.com/people   More about Dave Pietraszewski:    https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski

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• Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology

  Dave and David plunge (or dip a toe) into the controversies surrounding evolutionary psychology and try to make a good-faith effort, while not suffering fools (or internet trolls) lightly.  Listen through to the end of this one.    More about Evolutionary Psychology  The Center for Evolutionary Psychology “Primer”   More about David Pinsof:  https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/ https://www.kremslab.com/people   More about Dave Pietraszewski:  https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski

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• Basement Cults

  Co-host Dave Pietraszewski explains how he learned to love evolutionary psychology despite hating it at first, why attending basement cults as a child in upstate New York wasn’t all bad, really, and why he thinks understanding the human mind will require eventually understanding the evolutionary psychology of psychologists.    More about Evolutionary Psychology  The Center for Evolutionary Psychology “Primer”   More about David Pinsof:  https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/ https://www.kremslab.com/people   More about Dave Pietraszewski:  https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski   Things mentioned this Episode:  Dave & Annie Wertz’s Modularity Paper Planetary Regression Dave’s How our intuitive psychology shapes our science paper Wayne Wu's paper on attention Music by David Pinsof Produced by Naomi Monahan-Miller  

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• Is Evolutionary Psychology Bulls**t?

  Co-host David Pinsof explains how he discovered evolutionary psychology, why it might not be bulls**t, and why we hate status-seekers (most of the time). Since this is our first episode and it’s been a while, there may be other stuff in this episode, but we don’t remember what it is.   More about Evolutionary Psychology  The Center for Evolutionary Psychology “Primer”   More about David Pinsof:  https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/ https://www.kremslab.com/people   More about Dave Pietraszewski:  https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski   Things mentioned this Episode:  The Center for Evolutionary Psychology: Publication List Matrix Scene https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/ Status is a Four-Letter Word Paper David’s Politics as Alliances Paper  David’s Social Paradoxes Paper Dave & Annie Wertz’s Modularity Paper Music by David Pinsof Produced by Naomi Monahan-Miller

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