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The Nature & Nurture Podcast

Discussing the interaction between Nature (our biology, genes, evolutionary past, and the laws of our universe) and Nurture (our social environments, culture, history, and upbringings), and how these forces impact our lives. New episodes every week with scientists, authors, and bright minds from a wide array of backgrounds. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNatureNurturePodcast

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00:56:56

Nature & Nurture #103: Dr. Barry Giesbrecht - The...

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2023/06/07

Dr. Barry Giesbrecht is a Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Attention Lab. https://attentionlab.psych.ucsb.edu/

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00:59:04

Nature & Nurture #102: Dr. Mahzarin Banaji - Myths &...

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2023/05/27

Dr. Mahzarin Banaji is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. She is the recipient of countless awards including being one of APA’s William James Fellows for outstanding contributions to psychology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In this episode we talk about Mahzarin’s career in cognitive and social psychology, and the

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00:55:32

Nature & Nurture #101: Dr. John Delony -...

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2023/05/17

Dr. John Delony is a mental health and wellness expert with over two decades of experience working as a researcher, educator, and crisis responder. He is the host of the wildly successful, and live-changing advice-giving Dr. John Delony show, and bestselling author of Own Your Past, Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health, and Wellness. In this episode, John and I have a wide-ranging conversation centered around the neuropsychology research and personal

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00:48:25

Nature & Nurture #100: Dr. Leah Somerville - All...

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2023/05/15

Dr. Leah Somerville is the Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and my very own PhD advisor! She runs the Affective Neuroscience & Development Laboratory, where we study how brain and pubertal development shapes motivation, cognition, emotion, and behavior during adolescence. In this special 100th episode, I interview Leah in person about her research background, the importance of adolescence as a sensitive period for brain development, myths and facts about puberty,

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01:18:17

Nature & Nurture #99: Dr. Karl Friston - Active...

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2023/04/24

Dr. Karl Friston is a Professor of Neurology at University College London and one of the world's most influential neuroscientists. He invented statistical parametric mapping, voxel-based morphometry, and dynamic causal modeling, and has authored or co-authored hundreds of scientific publications detailing out these theoretical and methodological advancements in neuroscience, and is also the mind behind the theory of Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. The

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01:18:48

Nature & Nurture #98: Dr. Lixing Sun - The Evolution...

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2023/04/21

Dr. Lixing Sun is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Central Washington University, and author of The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World. In this episode we talk about the evolution of lying and deception as distinct strategies. Lying organisms actively alter truth by displaying false signals, whereas deception occurs by exploiting cognitive biases to trick others. We talk about lying and deception in a wide range of species, from insects, to

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00:57:29

Nature & Nurture #97: Dr. Mark Moffett - Society from...

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2023/04/10

Dr. Mark Moffett is an ecologist and author of several books including Adventures Among Ants and The Human Swarm. In this episode we talk about social behavior in species ranging from ants, to lizards, to chimpanzees, to humans, and their similarities and differences. We talk about intelligence as typically individually-defined, as well as distributed “hive mind” intelligence in simple species like ants, where each ant can function like a neuron in a whole-brain network. We also discuss the

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01:03:20

Nature & Nurture #96: Dr. Ovul Sezer - Comedy &...

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2023/04/04

Dr. Ovul Sezer is a behavioral scientist, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Cornell University, and stand-up comedian. In this episode we talk about the psychology of comedy and Ovul’s research on impression (mis)management. We discuss effective and ineffective forms of communication, balancing confidence and humility, and the importance of first impressions in social and professional relationships. We also talk about the psychology of virtue signaling, humble bragging, and

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01:04:10

Nature & Nurture #95: Dr. Edouard Machery - Free...

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2023/03/27

Dr. Edouard Machery is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He's published over 150 articles and book chapters on a diverse range of topics including the philosophy of cognitive science, moral psychology, the utility of evolutionary theory and neuroscience for understanding cognition, folk psychology, and experimental philosophy. In this wide-ranging episode we talk about Edouard’s research on cross-cultural

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00:52:10

Nature & Nurture #94: Dr. Scott Grafton - The...

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2023/03/21

Dr. Scott Grafton is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He directs the Action Lab, which focuses on the neuroscience of goal-directed movement. In this episode we discuss Dr. Grafton’s background in neurology research, and the historical progression of integrating the neuroscience of movement, perception, and goal-setting. We talk about how modern neuroimaging techniques replicated and expanded upon findings from early

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01:09:29

Nature & Nurture #93: Dr. Deon Benton - Is Learning...

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2023/03/11

Dr. Deon Benton is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, where he runs the Computational Cognitive Development Lab. In this episode we talk about the interacting forces of nature and nurture that give rise to human children’s tremendous ability for learning, language development, causal reasoning, and social cognition. Deon describes his past and future research on cognitive development in infants and young children, as well as experimental paradigms

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01:01:52

Nature & Nurture #92: Dr. Alan Fiske - Kama Muta:...

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2023/03/04

Dr. Alan Fiske is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, where he co-directs the Kama Muta Lab, and the author of several books including Structures of Social Life, Virtuous Violence, and Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion. In this episode we talk about Alan’s career as an anthropologist, the research which led to his books, and the social mechanisms which give rise to both peace and violence in human societies. Finally, we talk about Alan’s research on kama muta. Kama muta is

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00:57:19

Nature & Nurture #91: Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam - The...

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2023/02/25

Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dan uses an evolutionary and computational perspective to understand mate choice and mating relationships. Specifically, he is interested in how mate preferences are integrated with one another computationally in order to make mating decisions as well as the decision rules people use to navigate their mating markets and their relationships. Dan's work combines agent-based modeling of mate

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Nature & Nurture #90: Dr. Rob Henderson - Luxury...

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2023/02/18

Dr. Rob Henderson is a psychologist best known for his research on luxury beliefs. In this episode, we talk about risk and resilience factors for success in America, including growing up in stable two-parent households. Rob shares how his experience growing up in the foster care system and his military service primed him for identifying luxury beliefs of the upper class during his studies at Yale and Cambridge. We discuss how luxury beliefs confer status upon elites, but disproportionately harm

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Nature & Nurture #89: Dr. C. Sue Carter - Sex, Love,...

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2023/02/13

Dr. C. Sue Carter is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and Distinguished Research Scientist at Indiana University, where she also holds an Emerita position as Rudy Professor of Biology and was formerly Director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She is a Fellow and past President of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, and is known for her pioneering work on oxytocin, the love hormone, and its role in parental care and romantic

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00:45:13

Nature & Nurture #88: Dr. Adam Morris - Mindfulness &...

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2023/02/04

Dr. Adam Morris is a cognitive scientist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology at Princeton University. In this episode we talk about Adam’s research on the connections between mindfulness, decision-making, and introspection. We talk about the cognitive mechanisms involved involving in weighing pros and cons of your decisions, how various decision-making strategies may be computationally modeled, and how there may be a disconnect between people’s interoceptive beliefs about their

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00:46:18

Nature & Nurture #87: Dr. Brynn Sherman - Sleep,...

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2023/01/28

Dr. Brynn Sherman is a cognitive neuroscientist and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode we talk about Brynn’s research on the interaction between statistical learning and memory errors, and how memory is studied using behavioral tasks and neuroimaging. We discuss the distinction between episodic memory and semantic memory, memory encoding and consolidation, and between knowing and remembering. We also discuss Brynn’s more recent research on the effects of

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00:54:47

Nature & Nurture #86: Dr. Michael Levin - Animal...

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2023/01/21

Dr. Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor and director of the Allen Discovery Center and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. In this episode we talk about Mike’s research, which ranges from studying the molecular biology of cancer, to the bioelectrics of limb regeneration, to memory and higher-order cognition. Mike describes the overall theme of his research as understanding the

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00:59:00

Nature & Nurture #85: Dr. Daniel Schacter - The Seven...

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2023/01/14

Dr. Daniel Schacter is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University where he runs the Schacter Memory Lab, and author of The Seven Sins of Memory. In this episode we talk about the history of memory research over the last 100+ years, beginning with simple behavioral tasks and up to modern neuroimaging. Dr. Schacter overviews different dimensions of memory scientists have identified, including episodic vs. semantic, implicit vs. explicit, and the processes of encoding, consolidation, retrieval,

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00:53:01

Nature & Nurture #84: Dr. Joshua Greene - Moral...

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2023/01/05

Dr. Joshua Greene is a psychologist, philosopher, Professor at Harvard University, and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. In this episode we talk about Josh’s early research on moral psychology, specifically trolleyology. He describes his empirical research on the famous trolley problem thought experiment in philosophy, and how people generally approach these problems via two different modes of reasoning: slow and rational, and fast and emotional. We talk about

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