The Ethics of Anthropology

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Joe Henrich: It's a tough to be an anthropologist who also is, is doing psychology and evolutionary psychology. I think because you and Steven are, we should also acknowledge as the other authors of the weird paper,. Because of their background, yeah, our, C. Feina, because of their backgrounds, I actually took it very seriously. And it's a real thoughtful claim, right, about, about the human mind. So join us for part two, we'll be right back.

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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