Comparative Minds: The Effects of Counterfactual Thinking

Bill von Hippel (@billvonhippel) is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland and the author of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy.

• What our eyes tell us about how humans evolved to cooperate with one another.
• How a psychological phenomenon called the theory of mind makes us aware that mental states of others don't match our own, and why this trait gives human beings a unique advantage in the animal kingdom.
• Why hunter-gatherer societies are more egalitarian than what we see in modern Western civilization.
• Why so many of us hate the way we look in photographs.
• Can animals lie?
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/637

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