Aporia Podcast

Sander van der Linden is Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. His research interests center around the psychology of human judgment and decision-making. In particular, he is interested in the social influence and persuasion process and how people are influenced by (mis)information and gain resistance to persuasion through psychological inoculation. He is also interested in the study of fake news, media effects, social networks, and belief systems (e.g., conspiracy theories), as well as the emergence of social norms, polarization, reasoning about evidence, and public understanding of risk and uncertainty. His research spans from social psychology to cognitive science using a variety of techniques, from virtual reality to survey and lab studies to computational social science and large-scale (online) interventions. His book FOOLPROOF: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity (HarperCollins/WW Norton, www.foolproofbook.com) was listed by the BBC, Cosmopolitan, Apple, Men's Health, and Next Big Idea's as one of the most anticipated non-fiction books of 2023. He has published around 150 papers and is ranked among the top 1% of all social scientists worldwide (Clarivate ISI Highly Cited Researcher) and among the top 2% across all scientific fields.

Cory Clark received my Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. She worked as the Director of Academic Engagement for Heterodox Academy and is now the Director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project and a Visiting Faculty Scholar in The Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. ​Her hobbies include phojography (taking pictures while jogging), phodography (taking pictures of her dog), solo travel to beautiful or weird and murdery places, and planning for her future beet farm/live music venue/goat sanctuary, to be called Beets, Beats, & Bleats.

Dr. Russell T. Warne earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree in psychology from Brigham Young University in 2007 and his PhD in educational psychology (with an emphasis in research, measurement, and statistics) from Texas A&M University in 2011. Between 2011 and 2022, he taught at Utah Valley University and obtained tenure and the rank of associate professor. Currently, Dr. Warne serves on the editorial board for Intelligence. He was the associate editor for the Journal for the Education of the Gifted and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of School Psychology, Gifted Child Quarterly, and the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. Dr. Warne has published over 60 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the acclaimed undergraduate statistics textbook Statistics for the Social Sciences: A General Linear Model Approach. His book, In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2020.

Paul Bloom is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Gavan Tredoux is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a mathematician and statistician by training, with extensive interests in the History of Science (galton.org, burtoniana.org). He was a Senior Scientist in Research and Development at Xerox PARC, and currently works in the Data Science field. Follow him on Twitter here. Without doubt, this is one of our most educational and fascinating podcasts so far. We hope you enjoy.

Our magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ William Costello is a Ph.D. student of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is part of Dr. David Buss’ lab. In 2021 William graduated with distinction with an MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution from Brunel University London. William’s Master’s dissertation was some of the world’s first empirical research investigating the psychology of incels (involuntary celibates).

Aporia Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and the New York Times Bestselling author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Labor Econ Versus the World. In this podcast, Diana speaks with Bryan about many topics (timestamps below), but centres the conversation around his book Don’t Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice. You should subscribe to Bryan’s superb Substack: https://betonit.substack.com/

Louise Perry is a journalist and author based in London, UK. She is a columnist for UnHerd and a features writer for the Daily Mail. Louise hosts Maiden Mother Matriarch, a podcast about sexual politics, which is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast platforms. Subscribe to her Substack here: https://louiseperry.substack.com/ Our Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/AporiaMagazine

Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy attended and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1975. She then attended Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in Physiology and Psychology. Wax then went to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, before doing a residency in neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and working as a consulting neurologist at a clinic in the Bronx and for a medical group in Brooklyn. She completed her legal education at Columbia Law School whilst working part-time. Wax has argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court. She received both the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2015, she received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, making her one of three Penn Law professors to have received the award in 20 years. In 2017, the mob came for her tenure. In 2018, she was stripped of her teaching duties. You can support Amy’s fight below: https://www.gofundme.com/f/amy-wax-legal-defense-fund https://amywaxdefense.org/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:32 How did Amy’s scientific training influence her opinions 2:54 ‘The beating heart of wokeism is race’  7:05 Asians & immigration 12:37 Jews and other immigrants  23:15 Have we reached a tipping point with immigration? 26:20 Sex education should be banned 29:14 Respectable girls did not have sex  30:37 Are shame and stigma good? 32:50 Neo-trads 36:07 Amy’s relationship advice her children  39:10 Your children are not you 41:52 How Amy planned her life 44:55 Jewish duty?  47:10 Dinner table talk about the West 49:15 Gratitude for our ancestors  50:15 The non-negotiables of dating  53:10 Politics is corroding dating  55:18 Feminization of the academy  1:04:20 Should we have male-only universities? 1:06:34 How you can help Amy!  1:11:08 Sneak preview of bonus questions 

Diana Fleischman is an American evolutionary psychologist. Her field of research includes the study of disgust, human sexuality, and hormones and behavior. Diana will be hosting her own show with us, so we thought you’d like to get to know her! Diana’s Substack, Twitter, and website.