Robin: What is the psychology that makes a occult leader? And then i suppose the second question is that, what's the Psychology that makes one more susceptible to being a cult member? Robin: I think both of those quite difficult questions to ask. People intuitively know that things aren't a hundred % as they want to describe them, and they don't want to be kind of found out. A little bit of carris cariler is good for you. Too much carile a probably iner is a disaster. So i thank you so much, robin, for for the conversation. The book is ow religion envolved and why it indures, is well worth the
Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities (he came up with the Dunbar number, the idea that humans can have no more than 150 meaningful relationships). Now he turns his attention to religion, the subject of his recent book, How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures. Joining Robin in conversation on the podcast is Stuart Ritchie, Psychologist at King's College London, and author of Science Fictions.
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