Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
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The Importance of Natural Experiments in Psychology
The experience of war changes your internal preferences. For example, if you want to know how institutions might affect people's psychology, you can look at East and West Berlin. If you bring institutions of Ohio to Baghdad, they'll start behaving like people in Ohio. There's just this interface between people's acquired motivations and beliefs and values that fit with institutions. So you can't just transport institutions from one place to another.
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