CogNation
Discussions on the future of brain science and technology.
We found 3 episodes of CogNation with the tag “social psychology”.
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Episode 45: Blame and Political Attitudes: Gail Sahar
April 12th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 38 secs
attribution theory, blame, cognition, political psychology, politics, social psychology
We talk with Professor Gail Sahar about her new book, entitled "Blame and Political Attitudes: The Psychology of America's Culture War", where she applies social psychology to understand where and why we assign blame in the political sphere.
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Episode 26: COVID-19 and the Behavioral Immune System: Joshua Ackerman
March 24th, 2020 | Season 2 | 55 mins 35 secs
behavior, behavioral immune system, brain, cognition, corona virus, covid-19, evolutionary psychology, joshua ackerman, michigan, pandemic, psychology, social psychology
How do people behave in a pandemic? Joshua Ackerman of the University of Michigan talks about how we alter our behavior in the face of pathogens from the perspective of social and evolutionary psychology. A repertoire of responses (such as avoidance) referred to as the "behavioral immune system" is discussed as a way for humans to avoid pathogens BEFORE our biochemical immune system encounters them.
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Episode 17: Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority
July 25th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 11 mins
asch, authority, brain, cognition, milgram, obedience, social psychology
In the 1960s, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram performed some of the most famous experiments in psychology history, demonstrating that ordinary people could do terrible things in certain circumstances. Joe and Rolf look into the meaning of these experiments from a contemporary view. How are they holding up over 50 years later, and what else have we learned about obedience?