UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner explains how evolutionary maternal caregiving influences behavioral and physiological differences between sexes.
Opinion
Ayn Rand Is the Most Influential 20th-Century Philosopher
“One of my favorite champions of this is Ayn Rand, who Probably the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. You know, everybody's Atlas Shrugged, and so forth.”
Assertion Supported
Half of Emotional Expressions Are Universal; 25% Are Culturally Specific
“Across these five different cultures, China, India, Japan, Korea, the U S really different cultural systems. About 50% of any expression that an individual would admit is this universal expression, you know, where if you get embarrassed, you turn your head awa…”
Insight
Acquiring Power Biologically Impairs Empathy and Degrades Foundational Social Skills
“Once you feel powerful... You lose all the social skills that got you power in the first place, you know, and, you know, we show when I feel powerful, I read people's emotions less effectively, I interrupt them more, And then all hell breaks loose, and you kno…”
Assertion Supported
Wealthy Individuals Are More Likely to Cheat and Drive Aggressively
“Our studies show fitting this power abuse hypothesis that if I'm from the well-to-do and, you know, or feeling I'm from the upper class I'm less likely to attend to people carefully when they're speaking. I in an experiment, I'm more likely to lie and say I go…”
Insight
Parents Must Expose Children to Suffering to Raise Altruistic Adults
“I think it's important for parents to let kids Experience suffering and to see suffering, right? To recognize that there's pain that this is part of the human condition, because that's really what activates a lot of the pro-social stuff is suffering. And, you …”
Opinion
The Reproducibility Crisis in Social Psychology Is Somewhat Overblown
“So when I looked at some of the tables of, like, here's what's being attempted to be replicated, it's a very narrow swath of social psychology. You know, no one's attempting to replicate a long-term study of merit. Right. Or cause it's just, it takes a long ti…”