The Scientific Worldview

This episode features: -Do babies have a sense of right and wrong? -How are liberals psychologically different from conservatives? -Is it morally permissible to recline your seat on an airplane? -The psychology of abortion rights, gay marriage, environmentalism, and organ trade -The psychology of drugs, gambling, and prostitution -Do genes influence moral judgment? -Do genes predict someone's poli...

This episode features: -How do salespeople manipulate us? -Why do food delivery apps lie to us? -How do people use fashion to show off their social status? -Why do so many people hate the rich? -Persuasion techniques -Dating dynamics -Are most people conformist sheep? -Would most people electrocute a puppy just because an authority figure told them to do so?

This episode features: -How to have a smart baby -Are people with bigger brains smarter? -Are people with bigger heads smarter? -Does mental illness make someone more creative? -What determines someone's personality? -What determines someone's intelligence? -Do smarter people make more money? -How does your personality change as you age? -Can intelligence be measured? -Are there multiple types of...

-Why do people like scary movies?  -What does your bedroom say about your personality? -Is the Myers-Briggs legit? -How do men and women differ in terms of personality? -Why do people choose to suffer? -Why do people like art? -Why do some people like exercising? -Why do religious rituals sometimes involve pain? -What can you know about someone after meeting them briefly? -Why was someone willing...

-Does having children make people happy? -Are men happier than women? -What draws people into racist/sexist ideologies? -Are religious people happier than non-religious people? -Are polygraph tests effective at detecting lies? -Are police officers good at detecting lies? -Can money buy you happiness? -Are extroverts happier than introverts?

-Does psychotherapy work? -Three massive experiments tell us that some modern medicine must be useless or harmful -Why are doctors biased towards more aggressive treatment and testing? -Is acupuncture effective? Chiropractic? Naturopathy? Reiki? -Freud's ideas about "penis envy" and the Oedipus complex -Why was bloodletting practiced for 2000 years? -Can electroconvulsive therapy treat depression?...

-Why have rates of transgender identification increased in adolescents? -Why did anorexia become much more common starting in 1983? -Why is depression more common in women? -Is depression caused by low levels of serotonin? -Is depression a disease? -Why do most people with major depression have an anxiety disorder as well? -Does telling people about PTSD make them more likely to develop PTSD? -Pup...

This episode features: -Why do liberals and conservatives hate each other? -Are there hidden symbols in dreams? -Can dreams predict the future? -Can you learn while sleeping? -Why do we sleep? -Treatments for insomnia -How to learn better -How to accurately predict how long it will take to finish your Christmas shopping

This episode features: -How often do people lie? -Do we deceive ourselves? -What happens when you disconnect the two hemispheres of the brain? -Blindsight: some blind people can still use visual information to make decisions -What is the most disliked personality trait? -Why can't people admit when they're wrong? -Why are most people overly optimistic? -Why do most people think that they are bette...

This episode features: -How common are homicidal fantasies? -Why are men overrepresented in high status professions? -Why are men taller than women (on average)? -Why are men strong? -Why isn't everyone beautiful? -Why isn't everyone smart? -Why does mental illness exist? -What is the purpose of romantic jealousy?

This episode features: -How do humans detect cheaters? -Can you tell how generous someone is by the way they look? -What is the #1 rated most desirable trait in a long-term mate? -What does Maury Povich teach us about human nature? -Why is your mother's mother your nicest grandparent? -Why do mothers invest more in their children compared to fathers? -Why would somebody donate their kidney to a st...

This episode features: -Do men have more sexual fantasies than women? -Why are men attracted to younger women? -Was homosexuality selected for by evolution? -What are women attracted to? -Why do pregnant women develop food aversions? -Why do people like spicy food? -Why do humans make art?

This episode features: -Will teaching your child to play violin make them smarter? -Do genes determine someone's personality? -Do genes determine how smart someone is? -Do genes affect how happy you are? -Do genes affect whether you'll get married? -Are psychopaths responsible for the crimes they commit? -Do parents affect the political beliefs of their children? -Has the world gotten better or wo...

This episode features: -Why do we get goosebumps? -Why do some people turn red when they drink alcohol? -Do people around the world express emotion in the same way? -Why are so many people afraid of snakes? -If you have two siblings, can you be more genetically related to one than the other? -Why do giraffes have long necks? -Why do ostriches have wings? -Did humans "evolve from" monkeys?

This episode features: -Why do people wear ugly clothing? -Why do people overestimate how often they do the dishes? -How do marketers manipulate us into spending more money? -Why do people finish boring movies? -How to make optimal decisions (using math!) -The gambler's fallacy -Is a hotdog a sandwich? -What is sex? -Is sex on a spectrum?

This episode features: -What is probability? -Bayes' theorem -Is there a God? -Can you prove that God does *not* exist? -Can morality exist without God? -Are religious experiences hallucinations? -Pascal's wager -If there is a God, why is there so much suffering in the world?

This episode features: -Is the universe deterministic? -Do we have free will? -What is death? -Brain emulation -Cryonics -Is astrology accurate? -Are ghosts real? -Is it possible to speak with the dead? -Do psychic powers exist? -Do souls exist?

This episode features: -The doomsday argument -Is our universe fine-tuned for life? -Are we living in a simulation? -What is consciousness made of? -Are animals conscious? Which ones? -The Sleeping Beauty problem -Panpsychism

This episode features: -Why is there something rather than nothing? - How big is space? - Do parallel universes exist? - Are there aliens? - How did life originate? - The Fermi paradox - What is time? - Is time travel possible? - Quantum mechanics