Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-01-23
Books mentioned on The Hidden Motives Behind Female Friendships - Dr Tania Reynolds
Chris Williamson discussed When Men Behave Badly by David Buss and Humankind by Rutger Bregman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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When Men Behave Badly
When Men Behave Badly by David Buss is a comprehensive exploration of evolutionary psychology that investigates the deep-seated roots of sexual deception, harassment, and interpersonal conflict between sexes.
Discussed“and this is what I learned from David buss's Men Behaving Badly the failure of cross-sex mind reading the male over perception and the female underperception bias of attraction that you have this situation where women and men basically exist in different worlds when it comes to perceiving what's going on”
Where to get it
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Humankind
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman is a historical and sociological exploration arguing that human nature is fundamentally cooperative rather than inherently selfish.
Discussed“there was a Rutger bregman wrote a book called humankind and in that he talked about the puppification of humans and that was the same thing that evoking of some sort of uh sense of of care”
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