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Dr Gad Saad: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Ask Dr. Drew - Episode 33

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Are We Driven by Biological Forces?

In 1996, I was a young assistant professor two years out of my PhD. The plenary speaker at that economic psychology conference is a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon by the name of George Lowenstein. And to me sitting in the room, maybe I was sort of an irreverent, young assistant professor, I was thinking, do we really need to hear a plenary speaker tell us that humans are driven by biological forces? That's not what's interesting. What's interesting is why are the motivational drives in place that you ask that person out? Why the Mazda, not the Porsche? These are all things that go into motivational states and cognition.

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