Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-10-14
Lex Fridman & Julia Shaw: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #483
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.
Lex Fridman recommended Green Crime by Julia Shaw, and discussed Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning. Julia Shaw discussed The Idiot by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский and Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Charles Kinsey and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Green Crime
Green Crime is a detailed nonfiction study by Julia Shaw that explores the illicit global underworld of poachers, corporate fraudsters, and illegal gold miners.
Recommended“Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi, about bisexuality, and her new book that you should definitely go order now called Green Crime, which is a study of the dark underworld of poachers, illegal gold miners, corporate frauds, hitmen, and all kinds of other environmental criminals.”
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound 19th-century Russian novel that follows the compassionate, innocent, and deeply misunderstood Prince Myshkin as he navigates the cynical and corrupt high society of St.
Discussed“I'm sometimes like a Prince Myshkin character from The Idiot by Dostoevsky, where you just see...”
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male is a landmark 1948 study on human sexuality by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, and Clyde E.
Discussed“...he ended up finding, and this is one of the big findings in this book that he published called "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," which was a best-seller for an entire year.”
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Ordinary Men
Ordinary Men by Christopher R.
Discussed“I was just watching this, documentary based on a book, Ordinary Men, talking about the Germans in Nazi Germany that were taking part in the execution squads in Eastern Europe...”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi, about bisexuality, and her new book that you should definitely go order now called Green Crime”
“Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi, about bisexuality, and her new book that you should definitely go order now called Green Crime”
“Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi, about bisexuality, and her new book that you should definitely go order now called Green Crime”
“You wrote the book Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side.”
“Also, the title of my book is Evil, or in the UK market, it's Making Evil, which is a reference to a Nietzsche quote, which is, "Thinking evil is making evil."”
“Also, the title of my book is Evil, or in the UK market, it's Making Evil, which is a reference to a Nietzsche quote, which is, "Thinking evil is making evil."”
“I wrote a book called Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, and I did that after I created a bisexual research group.”
“I came out in Evil. Making Evil is the UK title, Evil in the US.”
“I came out in Evil. Making Evil is the UK title, Evil in the US.”
“So, when I was writing The Memory Illusion, which was my first book, and the research that was in line with that, there was this huge debate between me and a couple of other academics...”