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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)

By: Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof
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Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. Every week, Dave and David bring cutting-edge work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences to you. patreon.com/epthepod

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Episodes
  • Evolutionary Social Sciences with Dan Nettle
    Dec 23 2025

    Poverty? Universal basic income? Do we really crave sugar because of evolutionary mismatch? How do you train for an 800meter and a 100K running race? We cover this and much more with Dan Nettle (Jean Nicod).

    More about Dan Nettle:

    https://www.danielnettle.eu/

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rl3kkv4AAAAJ&hl=en

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Culture, Killing, and PTSD with Sarah Matthew
    Dec 16 2025

    How do evolutionary behavioral scientists think about the interplay between our psychology and culture? What causes some cultural norms to persist and spread? Do non-Western combatants in war have something like PTSD? In this episode, we explore all of these questions and more with Sarah Matthew (ASU), who talks about her work with the Turkana, and her long-term interest in the interplay between our evolved psychology of cooperation and violence, and the social norms and institutions that push and pull on our evolved psychology.

    More about Sarah Matthew:

    https://search.asu.edu/profile/2208359

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FqTZawEAAAAJ&hl=en

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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • Reasoning and Epistemic Vigilance with Hugo Mercier
    Dec 9 2025

    Is the evolved mind prone to believing misinformation? Are people gullible? What is reasoning, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode, we talk all things reasoning with Hugo Mercier (Institute Jean Nicod). If you have an opinion about whether people are reasonable (or not) this episode is for you.

    More about Hugo Mercier:

    https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/

    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b3o24EEAAAAJ&hl=en

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    1 hr and 38 mins
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