Childhood in the Congo Basin with Sheina Lew-Levy
Helicopter parenting is not a human universal! Guest Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham) explains what drew her to studying childhood among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin, and what parenting and childhood is...
24 Jun 20251h 52min
Friendship with Jaimie Krems
Why is the study of friendship so lonely, and what makes Philadelphia Philly? Guest Jaimie Krems (UCLA) explains why friendship is a blindspot in science, and why she has no advice to give you if you’...
17 Jun 20252h 1min
Mating with Daniel Conroy-Beam
Guest Daniel Conroy-Beam (UCSB) explains why human mating has occupied the interest of evolutionary psychologists, what consequences this has had on science, and how things might be done better. If yo...
10 Jun 20251h 58min
Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology
Dave and David plunge (or dip a toe) into the controversies surrounding evolutionary psychology and try to make a good-faith effort, while not suffering fools (or internet trolls) lightly. Listen thr...
3 Jun 20252h 1min
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 w...
27 Mai 20252h 9min
Is Evolutionary Psychology Bulls**t?
Co-host David Pinsof explains how he discovered evolutionary psychology, why it might not be bulls**t, and why we hate status-seekers (most of the time). Since this is our first episode and it’s been ...
20 Mai 20251h 56min
