The Future of Folk Psychology

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The kind of population that you should even be starting that with is maybe not a weird population. We could imagine a future in which these labs are linked across diverse populations. If we're generating this from our folk psychology, what we happen to find interesting, then we're going to pick a lot of weird topics. And I mean that in my weird way, because so when you look at a psychology textbook, there's no kinship chapter.

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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