Latest Moral foundations theory Podcast Episodes
Angie Goes to Prague
Heterodox Americana - November 02, 2021 18:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAngie goes to Prague and regales us with story of food, castles, and Eastern European delights
The Shower of Now
Heterodox Americana - November 02, 2021 18:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRaphael started taking daily cold showers in July. What resulted from this practice was completely unexpected.
Cultivating Safety and Updating Maslow
Heterodox Americana - October 03, 2021 20:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA nuanced and balanced look at the forces that unite and separate us as a society. Thoughtful conversations that touch on the psychology of political, moral, and spiritual thought
How to Get What You Want in Relationships
Heterodox Americana - September 19, 2021 22:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsYou may not always get what you want in a relationship, but not asking for what is and keeping your desires hidden is a surer way to not get it. In this episode we look at emotional asymmetry in relationships and the notion of "showing up" for yourself.
The Delta Dilemma
Heterodox Americana - August 22, 2021 20:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsApparently the complicated re-emergence of people and culture now has to content with the complicated re-emergence of COVID-19. As the Delta variant spreads throughout the world, we again have to contend with the same set of spirit-sinking decisions. Nobody ever said global pandemics would be ea...
Remapping the Mind and Integrating the Body
Heterodox Americana - August 22, 2021 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe talk about how to expand the contents of your mind and, by extension, the mind itself. We deal with some possibly helpful approaches to dealing with rumination, and how to use novel mental representations to change the quality of your life.
The Key to Long-Term Happiness
Heterodox Americana - August 22, 2021 20:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA nuanced and balanced look at the forces that unite and separate us as a society. Thoughtful conversations that touch on the psychology of political, moral, and spiritual thought
Complicated (re-)Emergence and the Vaccine Dilemma
Heterodox Americana - May 02, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGoing from quarantine to socializing again has been super weird for lots of people. That, plus... what to do about this vaccine thing, anyway? To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question.
Woke and Woker - When Cancel Culture Cancels its Own
Heterodox Americana - April 25, 2021 19:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode, we talk about more than just cancel culture and wokism, we also talk about the changing nature of our economy, the impact of the gig economy, job security (career security, really) and the slow death of our universities. Where are we headed?
On Raising Daughters pt.3: Chivalry vs. Preparedness
Heterodox Americana - January 03, 2021 18:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA nuanced and balanced look at the forces that unite and separate us as a society. Thoughtful conversations that touch on the psychology of political, moral, and spiritual thought
On Raising Daughters pt.2: Menstruation
Heterodox Americana - December 27, 2020 18:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA continuation on our discussion of how to be thoughtful about raising daughters with an eye toward the development of their full humanity. This time we talk about the general cultural discourse around menstruation.
On Raising Daughters pt.1: Sexualization
Heterodox Americana - December 20, 2020 18:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe first part of a 7-part series on raising emotionally healthy daughters. This first part addresses the subtle, inadvertent sexualization that happens to so many girls even at home. We talk about how to recognize it and what to do about it. An important discussion even if you don't have daught...
Understanding People Who Vote Against Their Own Interests
Heterodox Americana - December 13, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhether in electoral politics or at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, how can we make sense of the seemingly irrational behavior of people who act against their own best interests. Hint: their "best" interests is not what we say it is. We explore the layers of decisions and interest in this e...
Why Acting "Against Your Own Interests" ISN'T Irrational and Why You Probably Do it Too!
Heterodox Americana - December 13, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhether in electoral politics or at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, how can we make sense of the seemingly irrational behavior of people who act against their own best interests. Hint: their "best" interests is not what we say it is. We explore the layers of decisions and interest in this e...
Pandemic Fatigue vs The Zombie Apocalypse
Heterodox Americana - December 06, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAre we tired of doing this yet? Figuring out protocols are inherently challenging for our automatic thinking brains. How to act in a pandemic is beyond whatever intuitive mechanism has evolved in us as a species. Outside of scientific/mechanistic/strategic thinking there is simply no way to unde...
Wrapping up the Worst. Year. EVAR
Heterodox Americana - November 30, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsReflections on 2020 and the Kick-Off for season 2
Is the Happiness of our Children Important as Parents?
Heterodox Americana - November 22, 2020 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA continuation of our discussion in E51 around parenting, this time we look at parental relationships with younger children where considerations of "prestige" don't necessarily apply. Instead, we ask, "What do we want for our children?", and we examine competing ideas of child happiness.
The Role of Prestige in Teens and Pre-teens (...and parents)
Heterodox Americana - October 08, 2020 21:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSomehow this episode morphed into a discussion about the impact of prestige and prestige-seeking behavior on kids. We started off with a wider intention of understanding the parent-child relationship, but ended up focused on this narrow aspect. We'll continue the wider discussion (including exp...
The Mind-Body Connection in Breaking Through Your Comfort Zone
Heterodox Americana - September 29, 2020 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBe Limitless!
Scarcity, Abundance, and the Psychology of "Not Enough"
Heterodox Americana - September 22, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIf there's a single pernicious idea that dogs our ability to contribute, it's that the world is zero-sum and there's not "enough". We try our best to elucidate the scarcity mindset and offer ways toward a path of abundance (literally and metaphorically [and metaphysically?]). There is enough for...
Mansplaining 2.0 - Why Mansplaining FEELS Like a Thing... But Isn't
Heterodox Americana - September 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn Ep.26 "The Art of Mansplaining", we talked about the phenomenon that so many women feel as Raphael was insisting that, "it's not a thing." This time we explore if there is any reality to a feeling that so many people have. We compare the phenomena of 'whitesplaining', 'goysplaining', 'straigh...
Constructions of Identity and the Seeds of American Ruin
Heterodox Americana - September 08, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe're all arguing about the wrong stuff; the wrong identity politics; the wrong "us". We explored identity politics in Episode 5, but we weren't able to drill down and take a deep examination of the question, "what is identity?" and "what is a group (with respect to group identity)?" This is an ...
The Paradox of Stewardship: Why your present self sabotages your future self
Heterodox Americana - September 01, 2020 20:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsStewardship is the process of taking care of the think that you already have... so that you can keep having it. While the value of this is obvious to good stewards and makes enough sense to the rest of us, in general... we don't do it. If we did, the "check engine" light wouldn't exist. We expl...
The Neurobiology of Sin or "Not Going to Your Grave With Your Music Still in You"
Heterodox Americana - August 10, 2020 03:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIs it possible to think about sin in neurobiological terms? What if sin is real and not just confined to what we learned from religious realms. In this episode we bounce around an idea that sin is an emotion with its own biochemistry and something that we can all relate to. We use some recent br...
Change Your Context. Choose Something Different. Do Something New.
Heterodox Americana - August 05, 2020 01:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe loop back around to ways of thinking about mental health during a pandemic. Obviously the US is suffering disproportionately in this regard, but the underlying perspectives are applicable universally. Let us know what you think!
“Americanism”, The Fakeness and Realness of Racial Identity, and The Nation’s Unwillingness to Face its Past
Heterodox Americana - July 28, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsI sit with Victor Jackson—an insightful, young thought leader in Philadelphia—and we hash out, among other things the US’s unique refusal to be accountable, the false promise of full inclusion, and the pitfalls of socially constructed identities *explicit language
Sam Harris, the Reality of Racial Bias in Policing, and Speaking Truth to Cancel Culture
Heterodox Americana - July 06, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe talk with Dave Ramsey (daveramseymusic.com) about the potential social landmines of talking about opinion that break from received orthodoxy. Much of this episode refers to Sam Harris's podcast episode: Can we pull back from the brink? (https://samharris.org/podcasts/207-can-pull-back-brink),...
Use Theory of Mind and Strategic Thinking to Reduce Stress
Heterodox Americana - June 29, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe struggled with this title, but this is actually a good show. We talk about strategies for organizing the things you can control, how to build better models of your social world. We both found it really helpful to hash these idea out. Let us know what you think.
How Theory of Mind and Strategic Thinking can Reduce Your Level of Stress
Heterodox Americana - June 29, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe struggled with this title, but this is actually a good show. We talk about strategies for organizing the things you can control, how to build better models of your social world. We both found it really helpful to hash these idea out. Let us know what you think.
How Theory of Mind and Strategic Thinking can Melt Away Your Stress and Worries
Heterodox Americana - June 29, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe struggled with this title, but this is actually a good show. We talk about strategies for organizing the things you can control, how to build better models of your social world. We both found it really helpful to hash these idea out. Let us know what you think.
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