Basement Cults

Co-host Dave Pietraszewski explains how he learned to love evolutionary psychology despite hating it at first, why attending basement cults as a child in upstate New York wasn’t all bad, really, and why he thinks understanding the human mind will require eventually understanding the evolutionary psychology of psychologists.    More about Evolutionary Psychology  The Center for Evolutionary Psychology “Primer”   More about David Pinsof:  https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/ https://www.kremslab.com/people   More about Dave Pietraszewski:  https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski   Things mentioned this Episode:  Dave & Annie Wertz’s Modularity Paper Planetary Regression Dave’s How our intuitive psychology shapes our science paper Wayne Wu's paper on attention Music by David Pinsof Produced by Naomi Monahan-Miller