Rationally Speaking #188 - Robert Kurzban on "Being strategically wrong"
Rationally Speaking Podcast · NYC Skeptics
July 9, 201745m 49s
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Show Notes
In this episode, recorded live at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, Julia interviews evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban, author of "Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite." Rob describes the "modular mind" hypothesis, and how it explains hypocrisy, self-deception, and other seemingly irrational features of human nature. Rob and Julia argue about how useful these kinds of "strategic wrongness" really are.