The Dissenter cover image

#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation

The Dissenter

00:00

The Role of Social Learning in the Evolution of Human Behavior

Respect for norms is a sort of social signaling social signal to signal to other people that they belong to a particular social group. Social learning about how what not to behave involves constraining yourself it involves doing things that you don't want to do and so that's where sort of this approximate explanation about punishment about identifying with the group and so on comes in because you need something more when it's not really in your interest right now to convince you to do it.

Play episode from 09:15
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app