Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-10-03
Books mentioned on Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science? - Dr Stuart Ritchie - #534
Dr Stuart Ritchie is a psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence and an author. The influence of our genes on the outcomes we get in life has been long established and replicated in science.
Stuart Ritchie recommended The Expectation Effect by David Robson, and discussed Grit by Angela Duckworth and The Emperor's New Drugs by Irving Kirsch.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth explores the psychological importance of passion, perseverance, and delayed gratification in achieving long-term success.
Discussed“so um there was this big book in like 20. Angela Duckworth Yes Angela with book um 16 something like that that came out that was that was great It's in every single School in the country everyone loves it like the power of persistence and passion and all that sort of stuff If you look at the studies like”
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The Expectation Effect
The Expectation Effect by David Robson is a science book exploring how human expectations, thoughts, and placebo or nocebo effects physically impact health, behavior, and daily existence across various domains.
Recommended“So he wrote a book science writer very good really really good And I would highly recommend you go and check it out uh and so he's talking about basically the placebo effect but across multiple different sorts of domains”
Where to get it
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The Emperor's New Drugs
The Emperor's New Drugs by Irving Kirsch is a critical examination of antidepressants and the methodologies used in pharmaceutical research, arguing that the therapeutic benefits of these medications are largely driven by the placebo effect.
Discussed“Irvin Kirsch the famous critic of um antidepressants published a book called the emperor's new drugs I think it's called about antidepressants and he said an effect size of 0.2 is the average that you get out of studies of antidepressants”
Where to get it
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“well um I think Behavior genetics I wrote about this in my most recent book science fictions which is about the replication crisis exactly and um I I think Behavior genetics was one of the very first fields to be completely smashed by the replication crisis in one of its respects”
“and my book is uh science fictions came out a couple years ago”