David Pinsof
@DavidPinsof
Evolutionary social scientist, co-creator of @cah, co-host of Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast), blogs about bullshit at http://everythingisbullshit.blog
What if there’s no such thing as a unified “self”? According to a modular view of the mind, what we call the “self” is really a collection of specialized systems, each shaped by evolution to navigate a messy social world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… #CognitiveScience #ModularMind
Ecstatic to be on @EPthepod with @DavidPinsof and @DavePietrasz. A rare chance to talk in depth about my work, especially with such exceptional colleagues. Highly recommend their other episodes too!
A new episode is up! In this one, we talk to @Mike_Moncrieff about terrorism, his studies of ethnic conflict, and the drag queen phenomenon. podbean.com/ew/pb-xa3zf-18… youtu.be/gEL1V0SmPDI?si… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
David Pinsof on human nature @DavidPinsof One day I should read all his articles but I'm a bit scared of what this will do to my worldview. Beware, it's mostly for existential masochists or ruthless truth-seekers. Very eye-opening though.
Next Episode is up! Dave and David discuss examples of good evolutionary psychology. epthepod.podbean.com/e/good-evoluti… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/4CrMnhPHPec?si…
Vague bullshit, the parent of deep bullshit. @davidpinsof not only manages to define ‘vagueness’ with considerable precision, but also to pinpoint several compelling explanations for the existence of vague bullshit, and even to vaguely defend it: buff.ly/USHE3WC
Astrology, eastern mysticism, psychoanalysis… why is bullshit so often vague and abstruse? And why would anyone enjoy it? Find out in my latest. everythingisbullshit.blog/p/vague-bullsh…
"And as our colleague @DavidPinsof noted, suppressing tears may help the tearer conceal any intentions he may have to exploit the goodwill of others... it could be that suppressed tears paradoxically elicit more support than unbidden crying."
The hidden calculations that determine whether you will cry psyche.co/ideas/the-hidd… Psyche magazine Idea by @dsznycer @okstate & Debra Lieberman @univmiami We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling
Sixth episode is up! Childhood in the Congo Basin with Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew @DavidPinsof youtu.be/12mIU7_YcM0?si… podbean.com/ew/pb-bpsfw-18…
.@robkhenderson, ..,and here's the science underlying all that "I'm not signaling" signaling... osf.io/preprints/psya… (from @DavidPinsof )
For @thetimes, I wrote about Zohran Mamdani: "To appear humble and relatable, he wears hoodies and stages photo ops of himself eating fast-casual meals on the subway...the kind of self-fellating theatrics I witnessed as a first-generation student at Yale" thetimes.com/us/news-today/…
My NEW FAVE PODCAST: Real evolutionary social scientists talking about actual research (+ other weird stuff). I talked FRIENDSHIP with @DavePietrasz + @DavidPinsof.
Fifth episode is up: @JaimieKrems on friendship! youtu.be/fbrW4Hq0hFc?si… epthepod.podbean.com/e/friendship-w… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
“Our anthropology colleagues, esp. behavioral ecology colleagues, have been studying a lot of these topics like parenting that we’ve been neglecting & they’ve been rightfully annoyed at us EP’s for being so obsessed with sex and dating…” @dconroybeam podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
Had a great time on the Game Changer podcast. We talked about Alliance Theory, plus a couple of up-and-coming projects I'm working on—one on the simple majority game and another on the evolutionary psychology of humor. open.spotify.com/episode/1w3075…
"We also dive into @DavidPinsof's game-theoretic model of coalition-building, explore how humor functions as a coordination tool, and discuss the deeper logic behind seemingly irrational behavior." tws-gamechanger.libsyn.com/strange-bedfel…
Didn't think it was possible to be more dithyrambic about Pinsof's paper until recently reading the latest version (4), updated and sharpened by three new sections: Honesty and validity Variation in status game stability Strategic idealism vs. strategic cynicism
The great @DavidPinsof ROCKED the UCLA Marschak Colloquium last week--- on alliances + politics pics👇
A new podcast, @EPthepod: Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. In the first two episodes, the hosts, @DavidPinsof and @DavePietrasz, interview each other: youtube.com/@EvolutionaryP…
There are whole literatures where social scientists claim you can test for the effects of reputation management on behaviour with artificial experimental contexts where decision making is anonymous. I think it reflects a misguided understanding of human psychology.
Cool to see Pinsof's "Evolution of social paradoxes" make a substantial appearance... a.co/d/2MgllZr
Listened to the first of these. Great stuff - highly recommend. An excellent idea for a podcast.
There is no legit evolutionary psychology podcast. My friend @DavePietrasz and I thought this was a dire situation, so we set out to fix it. I’m excited to announce the start of Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast). I wrote a little something about it on my blog. (Link below).