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August 03, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Ben Blum
The Wright Show
- Ben's essay challenging Philip Zimbardo's famous Stanford Prison Experiment
- How a study about prisoners became a study about guards
- Evidence that Zimbardo improperly influenced the study
- The unexpected political effects of the experiment
- What explains the experiment's durability?
- When Zimbardo tried to get Bob to dance
- Is Zimbardo himself a victim of circumstance?
October 30, 2015 —
David Bryce Yaden & Julien Musolino
Science of Spirituality
April 26, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Sophia
- Is masculinity treated as a pathology?
- Why girls are outperforming boys in class
- Disentangling gender and sex, culture and biology
- "Girl power" was a success, but at what social cost?
- Crispin's years as a teen revolutionary
- The modern school as a totalitarian institution
- What really explains high-security schools?
- How safe can we reasonably expect to be in society?
- Is the media distorting our narratives of crime and danger?
July 13, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Cristina Bicchieri
The Wright Show
- What is a social norm?
- Why do norms like genital mutilation exist?
- Ways to change norms (and ways to fail)
- Change we have seen: smoking, gay marriage, bullying
- Fear disrupts norms and helps people like Trump
- The internet as a tool against "pluralistic ignorance"
- Why the political establishment is in trouble
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