The Psychology of Vertical Relationships

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I think there are kinds of relationships in the world where you expect to take the lower amount. So I think we have a psychology that allows us to think about vertical relationships, and it's our society that has particularly emphasized this equality relationship. And if I try to sit at the end, I'll often, you know, try to assume low status and sit down with the women and children. People get annoyed and they start moving me up the chain.

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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