David Disteno is coming on the podcast to talk about his new book, Emotional Success. Nina Strominger has a paper that posits people who are deontologists are more desirable as long-term mates than utilitarian. If you really just want to hook up, if you just want to play the field, you've got to be a virtue ethicist of some kind. Nihilists get all the action. They do.
What's the best way to build self-control, patience, productivity, and delayed marshmallow eating? For decades psychologists and economists have told us to develop traits like willpower and grit. But psychologist David DeSteno describes a better, easier, and more effective path--the emotions. We talk to David about his new (not-self-help) book "Emotional Success," which argues that the emotions of gratitude, pride, and compassion can help us fulfill long-term goals and (as a special bonus) make us happier and better people.
Plus, David and Tamler take a quiz that measures how utilitarian they are, and you won't believe the results!!! (Actually, you will.)
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Special Guest: Dave DeSteno.
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