Podcasts about comparative cognition laboratory

Jim talks with Matthew Pirkowski about the ideas in a recent tweet thread on time preference and its relationship with cooperation. They discuss the definition of time preference, defining parasitism, asymmetrical relationships, mutualism, commensalism, the increase in short-term thinking, a decrease in qualitative change, realization & potential, an increase in uncertainty, the interruption of attentional loops, a gossip protocol, the complexity catastrophe, the maximum number of daily interruptions, short-term money-on-money return, disintegration of network statistics, trustless infrastructure & cognitive chunking, coordinating at a higher level, zero-knowledge proofs, social immune systems, structural prerequisites of parasitism, Bitcoin as a metacentralizing attractor, building the modeling toolkit to understand causal closures within networks, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Matthew's tweet thread on time preference & cooperation "Crypto Beyond Capitalism: The Rise of Distributed Valerism," by Matthew Pirkowski Matthew Pirkowski works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix's Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software. Presently, Matthew is building the underlying modeling architecture at Bioform Labs, a company focused on using the Active Inference toolkit to model organizations as emergent cybernetic organisms. He believes these models can help organizations manage their deployment of and interaction with AI-based agents, as well as more adaptively manage their own emergent complexity.

Jim talks with Matthew Pirkowski about the kinds of consensus mechanisms that can be used to secure blockchains. They discuss active inference, proof of work vs proof of stake & the relationship between them, auto-catalytic networks, proof of work in emergent nature, what consensus means & why it needs to be protected, integrity of the ledger, an analogy with clocks, accelerating entropy, photosynthesis, exploring vs exploiting tensions in emergent systems, coordinating central points of reference, energetic openness, the relationship between energy & information, resistance to manipulation, postmodernity & symbols untethered to reality, the evolution of evolvability, adaptive drift, a stable foundation for building infrastructure, the tight relationship between information theory & thermodynamics, whether existing cryptocurrencies exist in a Goldilocks zone vs an arbitrary spot in design space, bugs of global reserve currencies, whether investing in Bitcoin is an anti-social act, currency vs wealth, personal stores of abstract potential energy, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space "Dividend Money: An Alternative to Central Banker Managed Fractional Reserve Banking Money," by Jim Rutt (lecture) Matthew Pirkowski works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix's Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software. Presently, Matthew is building the underlying modeling architecture at Bioform Labs, a company focused on using the Active Inference toolkit to model organizations as emergent cybernetic organisms. He believes these models can help organizations manage their deployment of and interaction with AI-based agents, as well as more adaptively manage their own emergent complexity.

An exploration of evolutionary dynamics and potential futures Matthew Pirkowski experiments at the intersection of software, behavioral / evolutionary psychology, and complex adaptive systems. These interests first took root while observing and modeling the collective behavioral psychology of capuchin monkeys at Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, with the goal of understanding why–and to what extent–our conceptions of “rational action” fail to describe what we observe beyond the domain of analytic abstraction. Such experiences catalyzed an interest in designing and building the interfaces through which human perception and purpose contacts the computational processes that have thoroughly saturated our lives and minds. Matthew is presently building a platform for modeling purpose-aligned human networks as naturally emergent organisms. He also consults on system architecture, advises nascent companies and communities, and writes about topics related to the evolution of human socioeconomic, technological, and representational systems–in particular the emergence and impact of cryptoeconomic protocols, as outlined in his Crypto Beyond Capitalism essay series. He spends most of his free time maintaining, regenerating, and growing food on a bit of land in the Cascade Range. He can be found as @MattPirkowski on twitter

[https://ideamarket.io — Where attention pays you.]Matthew Pirkowski works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix's Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software. Presently, Matthew consults on systems architecture, advises companies within the startup space, and writes about topics related to the evolution of human socioeconomic, technological, and representational systems–in particular the emergence and impact of cryptoeconomic protocols, as outlined in his Crypto Beyond Capitalism essay series. He spends most of his free time maintaining, restoring, and growing food on 6 recently acquired acres of Oregon woodlandsFOLLOW MATT PIRKOWSKI

Dr. Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. She studies the cognitive abilities, strategies, and decision-making processes we use to see if any non-human species share these, or whether they are uniquely human. In her free time, Lori enjoys nature through leisurely hikes. She is also fascinated by celebrity autobiographies and memoirs, and she likes singing karaoke. Laurie received her B.A. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard and Radcliffe College, and went on to complete her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University. Among Laurie's many awards and honors, she has received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Lex Hixton Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty at Yale, the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and she has been named one of TIME Magazine's “Leading Campus Celebrities”. Laurie and her research have been featured by The Today Show, BBC News, NPR News, NBC News, The New York Times, and many other media outlets. She is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

An enormous amount of research in philosophy and cognitive science has been devoted to belief representation in theory of mind, or the capacity we have to figure out what other people believe. Because of all this focus on belief, one might be tempted to think that belief is one of the most basic theory of mind capacities we have. But is that really what the evidence shows? Jonathan and his coauthors argue that it doesn't show that at all. Instead, they argue that it's actually the capacity to figure out what others know—rather than what they believe—that's the more basic capacity. Links and Resources * Jonathan Phillips (https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/people/jonathan-s-phillips) * The Paper (https://philpapers.org/archive/PHIKBB.pdf) * Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/does-the-chimpanzee-have-a-theory-of-mind/1E96B02CD9850016B7C93BC6D2FEF1D0) * Knowledge wh and false beliefs: Experimental investigations (https://academic.oup.com/jos/article-abstract/35/3/467/4986223) * Knowledge before belief : Response-times indicate evaluations of knowledge prior to belief (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Knowledge-before-belief-%3A-Response-times-indicate-Phillips-Knobe/99512f791f124e3cf1f6a2e45b4118c66246c973) * Do non-human primates really represent others' ignorance? (https://dogs.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Horshler-MacLean_2019_Cognition_DoNon-humanPrimatesReallyRepresentOthersIgnorance.pdf) * How do non-human primates represent others' awareness of where objects are hidden? (https://dogs.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/publications-files/Pubs2021/Horschler%20et%20al%202021%20-%20How%20do%20non-human%20primates%20represent%20others%20awareness%20of%20where%20objects%20are%20hidden.pdf) * Laurie Santos and The Comparative Cognition Laboratory (https://caplab.yale.edu/) * John Turri and the Philosophical Science Lab (https://john.turri.org/) * Fiery Cushman and the Moral Psychology Research Lab (https://cushmanlab.fas.harvard.edu/) * Ori Friedman and the UWaterloo Child Cognition Lab (https://sites.google.com/view/uwaterloocclab) * Alia Martin and the Infant and Child Cognition Lab (https://vuwbabylab.com/) * Joshua Knobe (https://campuspress.yale.edu/joshuaknobe/) Paper Quotes Since the 1970's, research has explored belief attribution in a way that brings together numerous areas of cognitive science. Our understanding of belief representation has benefitted from a huge set of interdisciplinary discoveries from developmental studies, cognitive neuroscience, primate cognition, experimental philosophy, and beyond. The result of this empirical ferment has been extraordinary, giving us lots of insight into the nature of belief representation. We hope this paper serves as a call to arms for cognitive scientists to join researchers who have already begun to do the same for knowledge representation. Our hope is that we can marshal the same set of tools and use them to get a deeper understanding of the nature of knowledge. In doing so, we may gain better insight into the kind of representation that may— at an even more fundamental level— allow us to make sense of others' minds. Special Guest: Jonathan Phillips.

On this episode of Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil welcome Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos onto the show.  Laurie is the host of The Happiness Lab, a podcast focused on the science of happiness that provides helpful advice on ways to improve your life.  In this conversation you'll hear the three talk about the mental health crisis on college campuses, the idea of happiness existing as a relative concept, how misguided expectations can lead to disappointment and vice versa, and much more.  You'll also hear Laurie's insights on money versus time in regards to which of the two will result in enhanced mental health, and her crucially important advice on how to properly process negative emotions in order to experience more positivity.  Laurie's knowledge and wisdom provides advice that everyone can benefit from, and the practices that she speaks about can truly alter your satisfaction with your daily life.   Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, the Director of the school's Comparative Cognition Laboratory and their Canine Cognition Lab, and is also the Head of Yale's Silliman College.  Laurie has been featured as a TED speaker, and was listed in Popular Science as one of their "Brilliant Ten" young scientists in 2007.  One of the classes she teaches at Yale, Psychology and the Good Life, is the most popular class in the history of the school, and at one point it had one-fourth of the school's undergraduate population enrolled in it.  She is also the host of The Happiness Lab Podcast, a podcast that examines the latest scientific research on happiness, and shares practical takeaways that can help alter people's approaches to negative situations, resulting in happier lives.   ----------- This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! Comes A Time is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and Produced by Oteil Burbridge and Mike Finoia. Executive Producers are Christina Collins and RJ Bee. Production, Editing and Mixing by Eric Limarenko and Matt Dwyer. Theme music by Oteil Burbridge. To discover more podcasts that connect you more deeply to the music you love, check out osirispod.com ------- Visit SunsetlakeCBD.com and use the promo code TIME for 20% off premium CBD products Discover Garcia Hand Picked Cannabis at GarciaHandPicked.com or connect with them on Instagram at @garciahandpicked Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil welcome Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos onto the show. Laurie is the host of The Happiness Lab, a podcast focused on the science of happiness that provides helpful advice on ways to improve your life. In this conversation you'll hear the three talk about the mental health crisis on college campuses, the idea of happiness existing as a relative concept, how misguided expectations can lead to disappointment and vice versa, and much more. You'll also hear Laurie's insights on money versus time in regards to which of the two will result in enhanced mental health, and her crucially important advice on how to properly process negative emotions in order to experience more positivity. Laurie's knowledge and wisdom provides advice that everyone can benefit from, and the practices that she speaks about can truly alter your satisfaction with your daily life. Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, the Director of the school's Comparative Cognition Laboratory and their Canine Cognition Lab, and is also the Head of Yale's Silliman College. Laurie has been featured as a TED speaker, and was listed in Popular Science as one of their "Brilliant Ten" young scientists in 2007. One of the classes she teaches at Yale, Psychology and the Good Life, is the most popular class in the history of the school, and at one point it had one-fourth of the school's undergraduate population enrolled in it. She is also the host of The Happiness Lab Podcast, a podcast that examines the latest scientific research on happiness, and shares practical takeaways that can help alter people's approaches to negative situations, resulting in happier lives. -----------This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes!Comes A Time is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and Produced by Oteil Burbridge and Mike Finoia. Executive Producers are Christina Collins and RJ Bee. Production, Editing and Mixing by Eric Limarenko and Matt Dwyer. Theme music by Oteil Burbridge. To discover more podcasts that connect you more deeply to the music you love, check out osirispod.com-------Visit SunsetlakeCBD.com and use the promo code TIME for 20% off premium CBD productsDiscover Garcia Hand Picked Cannabis at GarciaHandPicked.com or connect with them on Instagram at @garciahandpicked See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Laurie Renee Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is also Director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and Head of Yale's Silliman CollegeIn January 2018, her course titled Psychology and the Good Life became the most popular course in Yale's history, with approximately one-fourth of Yale's undergraduates enrolled.[ In September 2019, she became host of the podcast The Happiness Lab, published by Pushkin Industries — the media company led by journalists Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg.

Dr. Laurie Santos joins the podcast to share what the science says about how we can maintain our well-being during this difficult time.Laurie is a Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. Her course “Psychology and the Good Life” is the most popular class in the university’s history. It’s now available for free online as “The Science of Well-Being." She’s also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale, which explores the evolutionary origins of the human mindLaurie hosts the critically acclaimed podcast The Happiness Lab. We couldn't recommend it more highly, if you like our podcast you should definitely give it a listen.Sponsor Message: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Key Topics:2:00: Key resources for happiness during pandemic. 6:00: Understanding and combating logical errors. 10:00: How to stay strong during a crisis. 14:30: Developing an internal orientation toward positivity. 17:15: Key misconceptions about happiness. 20:30: Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.22:45: Self-compassion. 24:30: What can we learn from monkeys?31:00: Why didn’t “errors of reasoning” evolve out of us?34:15: Liking vs. Craving.37:00: The critical role of lasting learning. 48:00: A message to your younger self. New Book: If you're interested in Dr. Hanson's work, you'll love his new book Neurodharma! It explores the new science and ancient wisdom for being as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. It's available now through the link. Connect with the show:Follow us on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookSubscribe on iTunes

Welcome to another SHOUT OUT EPISODE, this time focusing on a conversation between Sam Harris and Laurie Santos (see description below) --- Politics Over Coffee receives no financial gain from this podcast. All rights remain with the podcast creator. -- https://samharris.org/podcasts/196-science-happiness/ In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness. They discuss people’s expectations about happiness, the experiencing self vs the remembered self, framing effects, the importance of social connections, the effect of focusing on the happiness of others, introversion and extroversion, the influence of technology on social life, our relationship to time, the connection between happiness and ethics, hedonic adaptation, the power of mindfulness, resilience, the often illusory significance of reaching goals, and other topics. Laurie Santos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She hosts the popular podcast The Happiness Lab and she teaches the most popular course offered at Yale to date, titled The Science of Well-Being. Laurie is also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003. Twitter:@lauriesantos Website: https://caplab.yale.edu/

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness. They discuss people’s expectations about happiness, the experiencing self vs the remembered self, framing effects, the importance of social connections, the effect of focusing on the happiness of others, introversion and extroversion, the influence of technology on social life, our relationship to time, the connection between happiness and ethics, hedonic adaptation, the power of mindfulness, resilience, the often illusory significance of reaching goals, and other topics. Laurie Santos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She hosts the popular podcast The Happiness Lab and she teaches the most popular course offered at Yale to date, titled The Science of Well-Being. Laurie is also the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003. Twitter:@lauriesantos Website: https://caplab.yale.edu/ Episodes that have been re-released as part of the Best of Making Sense series may have been edited for relevance since their original airing.

March 30th S.A.R. community coronavirus town hall, featuring mental health advice by Dr. Laurie R. Santos, psychologist and cognitive scientist who is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, Director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and Head of Yale's Silliman College.

March 30th S.A.R. community coronavirus town hall, featuring mental health advice by Dr. Laurie R. Santos, psychologist and cognitive scientist who is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, Director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and Head of Yale's Silliman College. This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.

250 students were expected to register for Yale University Professor Laurie Santos’ class “Psychology and the Good Life”. Instead it became a mass phenomenon with 1,200 registered students. She later offered her class “The Science of Well-Being” online, and it went viral around the world. Why? Because human beings have spent thousands of years searching for happiness, to no avail. “Something that the science teaches us is that although we all search for happiness, we don’t tend to do it well. We have preconceived ideas about the things that could make us happy, but we are often wrong. I think that’s where the science can help us, because it suggests that there are very simple things we can do to improve our well-being, such as imitating five behaviors of happy people: socializing, being altruistic, showing gratitude for what we have, practicing healthy habits and meditating,” says the researcher. Psychologist Laurie Santos is the Director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and Canine Cognition Laboratory at Yale, where she participates in scientific studies on emotional well-being, positive psychology and behavior. She maintains that “me culture” has not made us happier, but taken us farther away from this goal. Comparing ourselves to others, not being objective when valuing what we have, and losing the traditional values of our predecessors makes us more unhappy than they were. However, all is not lost. “By recognizing that we live well and only need to change our attitude, we can obtain that happiness and resilience needed to solve our problems. A universal recipe for finding happiness could be summarized as taking time to think of others and the here and now, and adding a bit of exercise and hours of sleep,” concludes the expert.

My guest today is Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. She is also the Director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and the Head of Yale residential college Silliman College. She has been a featured TED speaker, and has been listed in Popular Science Magazine as one of their “Brilliant 10” young minds in 2007, and in Time magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity” in 2013. In January 2018, her course titled, “Psychology and the Good Life” became the most popular course in Yale's history, with approximately one-fourth of Yale's undergraduates enrolled. The topic is her podcast The Happiness Lab. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale–the most popular class in the university's 300-year history–Laurie takes Michael through the latest scientific research and shares some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way we all think about happiness. Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life… more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You’re dead wrong. Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale–the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history–Laurie takes Michael through the latest scientific research and shares some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way we all think about happiness. Bio: Laurie Santos is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. She is also the Director of Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale’s Canine Cognition Lab, and the Head of Yale residential college Silliman College. She has been a featured TED speaker, and has been listed in Popular Science Magazine as one of their “Brilliant 10” young minds in 2007, and in Time magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity” in 2013. In January 2018, her course titled, “Psychology and the Good Life” became the most popular course in Yale’s history, with approximately one-fourth of Yale’s undergraduates enrolled.

LAURIE R. SANTOS is a professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of its Comparative Cognition Laboratory. Laurie Santos's Edge Bio Page (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos) The conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lauriersantos-glitches

Dr. Laurie Santos is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard and Radcliffe College, and went on to complete her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University. Among Laurie’s many awards and honors, she has received the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Lex Hixton Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty at Yale, the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and she has been named one of TIME Magazine’s “Leading Campus Celebrities”. Laurie and her research have been featured by The Today Show, BBC News, NPR News, NBC News, The New York Times, and many other media outlets. She is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is psychologist Laurie Santos who heads the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. In that lab, she and her colleagues are exploring the fact that when two species share a relative on the evolutionary family tree, not only do they share similar physical features, but they also share similar behaviors. Psychologists and other scientists have used animals to study humans for a very long time, but Santos and her colleagues have taken it a step further by choosing to focus on a closer relation, the capuchin monkey; that way they could investigate subtler, more complex aspects of human decision making – like cognitive biases. One of her most fascinating lines of research has come from training monkeys how to use money. That by itself is worthy of a jaw drop or two. Yes, monkeys can be taught how to trade tokens for food, and for years, Santos has observed capuchin monkeys attempting to solve the same sort of financial problems humans have attempted in prior experiments, and what Santos and others have discovered is pretty amazing. Monkeys and humans seem to be prone to the same biases, and when it comes to money, they make the same kinds of mistakes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LAURIE SANTOS (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/laurie_r_santos) is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Director, Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Yale University. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/panel/laurie-santos-what-makes-humans-unique-headcon-13-part-vii

Special guest Laurie Santos (Psychology, Yale) joins us to talk about what animal cognition can tell us about human nature. Why are other primates better at resisting the misleading influence of others than humans? Is conformity a byproduct of our sophisticated cultural learning capacities? Are we more like Chimpanzees or Bonobos? Why does Dave spend so much time writing Smurf fan fiction? [Smurf you, Tamler. -dap]. Also, Dave and Tamler talk about a scathing review of Malcolm Gladwell's new book, and Eliza Sommers poses the question of the day. This was a fun one. LinksComparative Cognition Laboratory [yale.edu]Laurie Santos and Jesse Bering on The Mind Report [bloggingheads.tv] Buy Jesse Bering's latest book "Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us" [amazon.com affiliate link]Philospher's Pipe (a directory of podcasts related to philosophy) [philosopherspipe.com]Smurfette [wikipedia.org]Horner, V., & Whiten, A. (2005). Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens). Animal cognition, 8(3), 164-181.Kovács, Á. M., Téglás, E., & Endress, A. D. (2010). The social sense: Susceptibility to others’ beliefs in human infants and adults. Science, 330(6012), 1830-1834. True Bonobo Love [youtube.com]Bonobos vs. Chimps [youtube.com] What does the fox say? [youtube.com] "The Trouble With Malcolm Gladwell."  by Christopher Chabris [Slate.com]."Christopher Chabris Should Calm Down" by Malcolm Gladwell [Slate.com]   Special Guest: Laurie Santos.