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#918 Antoine Marie: The Biases of People with Strong Political and Moral Convictions

Mar 22, 2024

Dr. Antoine Marie is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is an evolutionary political psychologist with a background in philosophy, sociology, political science, and social psychology. He conducts cross-cultural psychology experiments and develops evolutionary theory to better understand, and if possible, mitigate, the cognitive biases that arise from people having strong moral convictions on controversial topics, typically in contexts of perceived intergroup conflict. More»
#917 Dale Greenwalt - Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils

Mar 21, 2024

Dr. Dale Greenwalt is Research Associate in the laboratory of Dr. Conrad Labandeira, curator of fossil arthropods, in the Paleobiology Department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. His work centers on description of the insect fauna of the Coal Creek Member of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana. He is also interested in defining the biological and geological processes that resulted in the preservation of these insects and the original biomolecular components that are found in the fossils of the Kishenehn Formation. He is the author of Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils. More»
#916 Christian Hart - The Psychology of Lying, and How You Can Avoid Being Duped

Mar 18, 2024

Dr. Christian Hart is a Professor of Psychology at Texas Woman’s University, where he is the Director of the Psychological Science program as well as the Director of the Human Deception Laboratory. His research explores the behavioral cues of deception, pathological lying, lying within relationships, lying and morality, and the factors that influence decisions to be honest or deceptive. He is the author of Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice, and Big Liars: What Psychological Science Tells Us About Lying and How You Can Avoid Being Duped. More»
#915 Bernard Reginster The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

Mar 15, 2024

Dr. Bernard Reginster is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Dr. Reginster's research has focused mostly on issues in ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology in 19th century German philosophy. His new research interests include the topics of identity and intersubjectivity, for which he considers ideas from psychoanalytic theory, 20th century Continental philosophy, and contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy. He is the author of The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality. More»
#914 Eduardo Fernandez-Duque: Mating Systems, Biparental Care, and Cooperative Breeding in Primates

Mar 14, 2024

Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque is Professor of Anthropology at the School of the Environment at Yale University. He is a biological anthropologist with a general interest in understanding the evolution and maintenance of social systems. His main research interest is to examine the mechanisms that maintain pair-living, sexual monogamy and biparental care and the role that sexual selection may have had in the evolution of them. He is also motivated to study living primates as an approach to understanding the evolution of human behavior. He is particularly interested in male-female relationships, pair bonding and paternal care in humans and non-human primates. More»
#911 Caleb Everett - A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

Mar 11, 2024

Dr. Caleb Everett is a Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami and a Professor in the Anthropology Department, with a secondary appointment in Psychology. He is a member of the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. His work explores language, cognition and behavior across the world's cultures. His latest book is A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think. More»
#910 Daniel Simons - Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It

Mar 8, 2024

Dr. Daniel Simons is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, where he directs the Visual Cognition Laboratory. Dr. Simons studies visual cognition, perception, attention, and memory. Most of his recent research has focused on the cognitive underpinnings of our experience of a stable and continuous visual world. He is the author of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, and more recently, Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It. More»
#909 Paul Halpern: The Allure of the Multiverse

Mar 7, 2024

Dr. Paul Halpern is Professor of Physics at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Dr. Halpern's areas of expertise include the history of physics, cultural aspects of physics, and theoretical astrophysics & cosmology. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent one being The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes. More»
#908 Joanna Malinowska: Race and Ethnicity in Science and Medicine, and Human-Robot Interactions

Mar 4, 2024

Dr. Joanna Malinowska is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The subject of her research is a broadly understood philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on philosophy of medicine, philosophy of neurosciences and philosophy of psychology. She explores connections between these areas and questions in bioethics, epistemology, ontology, and methodology. Her current focus is on the conceptualization and use of ethnoracial categories in medicine. More»
#907 Katarina Kovačević: Epistemic Responsibility and Strategic Ignorance

Mar 1, 2024

Katarina Kovačević is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University. Her main research interest is responsibility. She investigates how people ascribe responsibility for good and bad outcomes across various situations. She is specifically interested in epistemic responsibility and strategic ignorance. More»