The Importance of Family Environment in Child Development

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In the last couple of years, there's been meta and big, big, big analyses and there's no personality differences and tiny IQ differences. And this makes sense. I think parents know this. In that if you ever have more than one kid, my kids have turned out very different. They resemble me, but there's a good case for me to resemble them. But just because you know, shared genes.

As parents we like to think we have an impact on our children - their future, their happiness, the kinds of people they turn out to be. But are we deluded? Dave and Tamler are joined by empathy's kryponite, the great Paul Bloom, to talk about Judith Rich Harris's view that parents matter a lot less than you might think (while genes and peer groups matter a lot more than you might think) .

Plus, what the connection between art and morality? Should we support "cancel culture"? Is it wrong to play Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. (spell it out) on the radio? What about the Jackson 5? And what about art that is itself immoral? You're not gonna believe this but Louis CK gets mentioned.

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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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