The Dissenter #113 Joshua M. Tybur: Disgust, Evolution, Politics, and Social Psychology
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Dr. Joshua M. Tybur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at VU Amsterdam. His work is dedicated to better understanding how people solve some of the fundamental problems of life, including avoiding infectious diseases, obtaining and retaining a mate, and navigating the threats and affordances of interdependence. He approaches these topics with a combination of ideas and techniques from social psychology, personality psychology, and evolutionary biology.
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Tybur about the domains of the emotion of disgust, from an evolutionary perspective; the relationship between disgust and morality, and between disgust and political attitudes; sex differences in disgust sensitivity. We also talk about politics and science, and the problem of our own political preferences contaminating scientific research, and the importance of giving social psychology a biological basis.
Time Links:
01:18 The domains of disgust
07:02 Disgust and morality
09:37 Disgust and political conservatism
17:52 Sex differences in disgust sensitivity
20:44 Do people experience more disgust sensitivity toward people from out-groups?
24:50 The political attitudes disgust is associated with
28:00 Do people who believe in adaptations of the human mind have a far-right agenda?
31:35 Separating politics from science
33:54 Things to be aware of in cross-cultural studies
39:58 Evolution and social science
43:39 Being aware of our political biases when doing science
48:17 Follow Dr. Tybur’s work!
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