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The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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How to Change Your Subjective Experience of Reality Living Within a Limited Vocabulary

English has a counting system that allows us to count without bound. But lots of languages will count 123 many, including our Aboriginal Australian languages. English speakers have three different coordinate systems. How you partition and categorize is affected by whether you have a color term at a particular point in the color spectrum That can affect perception either in positive or negative ways.

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