#45 Mark Schaller: Interpersonal Communication and Human Culture, The Behavioral Immune System

The Dissenter - A podcast by Ricardo Lopes

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Dr. Mark Schaller graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1984 and obtained a PhD in Psychology at Arizona State University in 1989. He is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He edited books like The Psychological Foundations of Culture and Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind. In this episode, we talk about what is culture and how it gets generated; the Dynamic Social Impact Theory, and the concepts of consolidation, clustering, and correlation in cultural communication; Stickiness, Pitchiness, Catchiness, and the communicability of ideas; the content of stereotypes; the behavioral immune system, its individual and cultural/collective manifestations, and its relationship with error management theory; and the relationship between evolutionary psychology and cultural psychology. -- O Dr. Mark Schaller graduou-se pela Universidade da Carolina do Norte, em 1984, e obteve o seu doutoramento em Psicologia pela Universidade do Estado do Arizona, em 1989. É atualmente Professor de Psicologia na Universidade da Columbia Britânica, Vancouver, Canadá. Editou livros como The Psychological Foundations of Culture e Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind. Neste episódio, falamos sobre o que é cultura e como é gerada; a Dynamic Social Impact Theory, e os conceitos de consolidação, agregação e correlação na comunicação cultural; Stickiness, Pitchiness, Catchiness, e a comunicabilidade das ideias; o conteúdo dos estereótipos; o sistema imunitário comportamental, as suas manifestações individuais e culturais/coletivas, e a sua relação com a error management theory; e a relação entre a psicologia evolutiva e a psicologia cultural. -- Follow Dr. Schaller’s work: Faculty page: https://psych.ubc.ca/persons/mark-schaller/  Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Mark-Schaller/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMark%20Schaller -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g