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

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