Grab some candy (or brains): Halloween is here! This week, we talk to Coltan Scrivner about why we can't look away from the macabre, what exactly the "horror" genre is, and why a self-dose of fear and horror may be good for anxiety. If you are curious about horror, true crime, cobwebs, zombies, great white sharks, Jurassic Park, or whether its good for kids to experience gross or scary things, this episode is for you!

Also, today, Coltan's book, Morbidly Curious, comes out:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705578/morbidly-curious-by-coltan-scrivner-phd/

More about Coltan Scrivner:

https://www.coltanscrivner.com/

https://www.morbidlycuriousthoughts.com/

How are humans able to sustain large families? What is our "true" reproductive strategy as a species? Are kids designed to raise younger children? And is it unnatural for us to live in such strongly age-segregated societies? In this episode, we talk to Karen Kramer (U of Utah) where we discuss our (possibly unique) ability to live with and raise one another.

More about Karen Kramer:

https://www.sapiens.org/authors/karen-l-kramer/

https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0839608/about

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2tP1330AAAAJ&hl=en

Why do we believe what we believe? And our we aware of why we believe what we believe? And what is a belief anyway? And what should we think of people like Jordan Peterson? We tackle these questions and more in this episode with Dan Williams (Sussex): our first guest representing evolutionary approaches to philosophy.

More about Dan Williams:

https://danwilliamsphilosophy.com/

https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/