Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-05-04
Lex Fridman & David Buss: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #282
#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at UT Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology.
Lex Fridman discussed Evolutionary Psychology : The New Science of the Mind by David Buss, The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, and Why Women Have Sex by Cindy M. Meston and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Evolutionary Psychology : The New Science of the Mind
Discussed“You authored the textbook titled evolutionary psychology the new science of mind in its uh sixth edition”
Where to get it
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“you know there's uh uh becker with the denial of death like what why do we build castles”
Where to get it
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Why Women Have Sex
Discussed“you wrote a book called why women have sex understanding sexual motivations from adventure to revenge”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Animal Farm
“sort of beyond over there in sugar candy mountain as uh crow says that in animal farm”