The Weird Paper: A Real Indictment of Work in the Behavior Spaces

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David Frum: The reaction that people have to the paper when they say, see, you guys don't know anything about the mind because you haven't been studying the Bushman or whatever. He says it's a deep misunderstanding of what experimental psychology has been contributing. "I think at least many experimental psychologists that I know have a good sense of what they're doing"

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

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