Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-03-08
Chris Williamson & Rob Henderson: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #292
Signalling: Why You Do The Things You Do - Rob Henderson - #292
Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran. Signalling is something everyone is doing all of the time.
Rob Henderson discussed Meditations on Violence by Rory Kane Miller, Collision of Wills by Roger V. Gould, Codes of the underworld by Diego Gambetta, The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham, The Social Leap by William von Hippel, The Power of Bad by John Tierney and others, and Minds Make Societies by Pascal Boyer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations on Violence
Discussed“there's um there's an author rory miller i think is his name he wrote a book called meditations on violence and he worked in law enforcement for a long time and he calls this the monkey dance”
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Collision of Wills
Discussed“there was a sociologist roger gould he wrote this book um collision of wills where he actually i mean his whole book is about that specific question about like when is conflict most likely to arise between individuals”
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Codes of the underworld
Discussed“i've also been reading this book um by diego ambada codes of the underworld about uh criminals and he documents research in prisons and finds that um when prisoners don't know each other fights are way more likely to break out”
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The Goodness Paradox
Discussed“there was a recent book uh by the harvard anthropologist i think he's anthropologist richard wrangham the goodness paradox and that whole book is about this idea of basically capital punishment”
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The Social Leap
Discussed“uh i i know that uh william von hippel he writes about this in his book um basically what they did was they had they brought in groups like pairs pairs of people into the lab and had to play a game”
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The Power of Bad
Discussed“well roy baumeister just has a book it came out i think last year the year before uh something like the power of bad or something”
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Minds Make Societies
Discussed“there's even (researchers) i think pascal boyer he has suggested so he had his book mines make societies and he suggested that uh it's actually advantageous to exaggerate”
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