please do these forever. i love these videos. its not common to find someone with such a mind speaking so casually on such a variety. this kind of talk is wonderful for spawning interdisciplinary knowledge. thank you, happy new year
I adopted a very ill rescue dog many years ago…she was an ugly little thing and we took her because we knew she was basically inadoptable. As our love grew we realized our Annie was actually quite beautiful…despite the fact that her physical appearance never really changed
I just love these. Happy New Year Sapolsky family. You know I didn’t have an Ivy League education or a bachelors degree. Using drugs I met a fellow from Harvard and we became good friends. As we were discussing sobering up he changed the way I think. Discussing what’s a loose association and what’s in fact a fact. So after 5 years of getting sober and learning about the brain, psychology and this new way of thinking, reading books like Determined, watching these videos gives me a new sensibility in life. And a new way to think. So thank you!
Thank you for answering my question and talking about the cerebellum! That really clarified some things. The kinds of things we're seeing in my dad that are a bit like dementia seem almost opposite of what is described as typical dementia so that makes a lot of sense. I've found a little bit here and there about cognitive functions of the cerebellum but I'm very glad to hear your take on it. I'll share this in the SCA groups I'm in. Happy new year and thanks again for this series. 🎉
Ha, I thought it was strange prof. Sapolsky didn't mention the Halo effect, just to see Rachel at the end save the day. Another insightful and humorous episode!
I found George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s book “Metaphors We Live By” to be pretty fascinating. They see metaphors being used in everyday language which helps us understand more abstract things.
Thanks for being awesome. Both of ya I reckon. You continue to be a great educator. I rewatched that episode with Alam Alda having a walk and talk, and you still sound just as smart and respectful as you did way back then.
For those unaware, procedural memory (or more specifically motor memory) is roughly synonymous with what is colloquially known as "muscle memory". It might help you better understand the cerebellum question, to think "muscle memory" when Sapolsky talks about "procedural memory".
For the "well-actually" crowd (which includes me 👋)... By "roughly synonymous", I mean muscle/motor memory are both subtypes of procedural memory. The cerebellum is associated with both. Sapolsky's example of grandpa Tom reciting a 20 minute lecture on architecture, could be considered an example of a procedural memory that's non-motor based.
@@Fred-n7l My understanding is that the basal ganglia are more important for the learning phase, and the cerebellum is important for the recall phase of procedural memory. Though under the dominant synaptic plasticity theory of learning, memory and learning are kind of the same thing. So the cerebellum and basal ganglia are both associated with procedural memory.
I can’t begin to express how useful & meaningful these talks are. But I also want to express a finding I made; through NHK I saw a health program on the importance of avoiding falls (aged population+broken hips=bad)and that balance could be improved by engaging the cerebellum with peripheral eye exercises. The improved balance (which can be tested by standing with parallel feet, one in front of the other, and closing your eyes) is temporary and relies on continuing the daily eye exercises. Great! I could measure the effectiveness and took it on as a habit. Now the weird part: it turned out to be a way to deal with intrusive thoughts and lessened anxieties that were deepening themselves. I’ve since discovered that EMDR exists but it seems to be rather “woo”. The balance improvement through peripheral eye exercises can be experienced and observed/recorded. The easing of intrusive anxieties seems to be an unexpected side effect. Anyway, it’s working for me as a two for one deal. To do the exercise you hold your arms up so that they are parallelish with the ground, hold up your thumbs so that they are each at the outer edge of your eyesight (about a 90degree angle from each other), then you hold your head still looking straight ahead and begin a ping pong game with your eyes, focus on the right thumb, focus on the left thumb, and so on, quickly, to and fro, and repeat from 30 to 50 times. Once or twice a day. Easy! Do the standing up with your eyes closed thing to check your progress (or deterioration). I know you said the cerebellum isn’t of great interest to you, but I’d love to know what your thoughts are on this (and is it related to REM, could we somehow be cleaning away troublesome thoughts/emotions like a windscreen wiper when we sleep?)
Francine Shapiro designed EMDR and I think it’s only woo woo bc of gender factor that still plagues academic fields to this day. Good luck with your pursuit. I use side to side eye movement for acute anxiety.
Always great content and something new to learn. May 2025 bring us more wisdom about the neurobiology of human behavior and the beard! Thank you for all of your time and effort producing this podcast!
Yeeeaaahh cerabelum:) i play guitar and iv seen my hands just take over and i didnt know it lol!:) thank You guys.. and the beard! Happy new year sopolski family!!:)
Thx a lot for today´s questions! Video ist super al always, but Q3 is particularly interesting for my volunteer work, where building and establishing routines is a major topic.
This is great. The section about the Cerebellum explains technically why the late pianist John Ogden could still perform concertos for years after he couldn't remember where he was or who his family were. Sadly this British pianists was abused by his manager, who made him carry on performing, long after he should have been allowed to retire.... he died in his 50s.
I suspect 2025 will not be a better year for the earth than 2024 was, but I'm trying to see it as an opportunity to focus on bettering my personal situation.
Terror Management Theory has actually shown that both ageism and youthful striving have existential motivations beyond pragmatic survival and reproduction. In indigenous cultures where individuals have a stronger faith in the afterlife & their own cosmic significance, old age doesn’t elicit the same mortality salience.
Intresting... I've heard terror management is staying preoccupied with life and goals, ect.ect, so as not to think of your imminent death of your physical body...
@@jamesbishop9156 yup there’s a few TMT studies on the existential role of busyness like this one etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=ohiou151776776512545&disposition=inline Ernest Becker, from whom the theory derives had a somewhat more poetic way of putting it in his book The Denial of Death: “When the awareness dawns that has always been blotted out by frenetic, ready-made activity, we see the transmutation of repression redistilled, so to speak, and the fear of death emerges in pure essence. This is why people have psychotic breaks when repression no longer works, when the forward momentum of activity is no longer possible.”
@@jamesbishop9156 yup there’s a few TMT studies on the existential role of busyness. Ernest Becker, from whom the theory derives had a somewhat more poetic way of putting it in his book The Denial of Death: “When the awareness dawns that has always been blotted out by frenetic, ready-made activity, we see the transmutation of repression redistilled, so to speak, and the fear of death emerges in pure essence. This is why people have psychotic breaks when repression no longer works, when the forward momentum of activity is no longer possible.”
Watched your 2023 update on the biology and psychology of depression a couple of days ago. Occurs to me that if depression increases perceptual accuracy by decreasing unwarranted optimism geriatric dementias are probably evolutionarily conserved because subclinical presentations support happy aging. Seems like the ability to remember things from long ago but not encoding recent memories suggests the precipitating event is a still-unintegrated trauma. Bet there’s a lot of complicated grief persisting in that population. Bet they also get medicated with antipsychotics to control psychomotor agitation despite the fact that psychomotor symptoms are indicative of anxiety (not psychosis).
You're making me wonder if the connection to the cerebellum is involved in my Autism, like long before I knew about it, I perceived that things never become automatic for me, that I, and other Autistics report this, have to do everything consciously, forever. When I focus on something, even breathing stops, and I have to remember to breathe, I am often gasping and out of breath after tying my shoes or something, I forgot to breathe. But this is true of many things, practice never helped with golf, not sure it does with the guitar. Perhaps pushing things off into the unconscious is an Allistic thing, or this really is a disability for me/us, maybe it's about the distributed processing thing you mentioned regarding Autistics. Interesting.
I'd love to be able to listen. Every time I try to listen to one of these videos I have to turn it off because I absolutely cannot deal with your beloved daughter's vocal fry.
Could you say more on what is preserved and what is not in parkingsons. Also,what is happening when they go blank? Are they aware of their surroundings or what. Donell from the usa.
Especially interesting stuff about the cerebellum. It would seem that its precision, power, and speed might make the difference between the mediocre and magnificent in all manner of human performance. I want Tiger Woods' cerebellum. He should donate that to science when he's done with it.
“The beauty market, which includes skincare, fragrance, makeup, and haircare, generated approximately $430 billion in revenue in 2022 and is expected to reach approximately $580 billion by 2027.” How much of this is done to look healthy and fertile? Does enjoying the attention one gets from others (both men and women) have anything to do with this? How much money would one spend on this if there were no one else around to notice?
I heard female bowerbirds can tell a younger male from older ones by his bower building skills and i wonder if this is a way of telling age, eg via experience as a stand-in for age that can be displayed nonverbally
If coming into existence is a great harm for any person if pain is considered in its full impact on a human life then youthful appeal is a ominous hazard by token of the appeal highly correlates to bringing another person into existence that would have not have to suffer the ravages of a human life.
22:08 I CALL BS ON THAT. The difference between the “beautiful” face and “ugly” face is not just aesthetics it’s facial expression. The ugly face is drawn with exaggerated V eyebrows. Besides being the stereotypical eyebrows of cartoon villains, that’s the shape human eyebrows usually form when we are angry, worried or similar. No wonder anyone would associate bad emotions with the “ugly” face. If the study is all based on drawing like those imho it’s worthless. I want to see a study where the ugly person has a big pudgy nose and a horrible skin condition but their expression is jovial and kind and then see how much the correlation beauty-good ugly-evil holds. I understand the ethical concerns about using photos but there’s no point in drawing a stereotypical cartoon villain and then ask people if that looks like a villain.
Why don't you read the study, and find out what they were doing. Maybe there was a control for it. Or maybe it was a bad study. I don't think the Dr was particularly convinced that the study was good. It was just an example. You sound like a person that would enjoy learning to evaluate studies. You should see if there is a class available. One of the classes I enjoyed the most was one about evaluating research, and identifying problems. But remember, you can still learn from problematic studies, and you have to. The constraints put on scientists to protect participants sometimes means they have to do "bad" studies. Here is an example. If you are looking for the critical period for speech, a really good study would be to take 1000 babies, and isolate them from speech. Then you would expose a couple to speech every few weeks, and when they stopped being able to learn, you know you have the critical period. But you can see where that would be unethical, so you have to do "bad" but ethical studies, and know that it will take more time to get the info you want. So sometimes a "bad" study is the best you can do. And sometimes they are just bad.
I think you're on the right track in the fact that there may actually be a VALID correlation to SOME DEGREE between how someone looks and their moral character...
Dweebs aside, secondary signals in trendy clothes, makeup, hairdos, etc., always made me doubt the honesty of those women who engage in such behaviors. When several women are together and they each are similarly dressed, I feel sad for them because they can only attract gullible men who accept the camouflage as truth in advertising .
Funny how Robert says his daughter never dressed like a strumpet when she was growing up, and yet there she is today wearing a black choker around her neck. Robert not up to date on late twentieth/early twenty-first century semiotics or is he being ironic?
Don't adolescents just copy young adult pop culture aestetics? I don't think any adolescent girls consciously want to look like prostitutes (strumpets)... Doesn't the same thing happen with smoking? Teenagers start smoking not because they enjoy it but because it is made to look cool in pop culture and media.
Maybe it speaks to my own bias than it does to the facts, but I don't understand Sapolsky's view of the cerebellum as not all that interesting. At the risk of sounding like an old freudian fart, what's going on in the brain follow Freud's 80/20 rule that 80 percent of our experience resides in the unconscious mind (the cerebellum), and the cerebrum only is responsible for the other 20%. .There seems to be some more current neuroscience to back it up as well: From what I understand, the cerebellum is at the top of the hierarchy in terms of sensory processing, and it sends nonverbal instructions down to the cerebrum to translate into conscious experiences. I hate to use wikipedia as a reference, so pardon me if I quote it, " In humans, the cerebellum plays an important role in motor control and cognitive functions such as attention and language as well as emotional control such as regulating fear and pleasure responses." I know I seem to be in a more pleasant mood when I perform behaviors that are purported to stimulate the cerebellum, i.e., dance, yoga, and the martial arts. Sometimes, if I'm in a rush, I'll just sit in a desk chair and spin around as much as I can tolerate. Once I stop, my disorientation kind of forces me to pay attention to what is viscerally real, rather than all that bullshit that is going on inside my cranium.
I enjoyed reading; The Case Against Reality, How evolution hid the truth from our eyes, by Donald Hoffman. Physical attraction is a very interesting subject. 👍😁🫶❤️💯✨️🩷😎💚
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please do these forever. i love these videos. its not common to find someone with such a mind speaking so casually on such a variety. this kind of talk is wonderful for spawning interdisciplinary knowledge. thank you, happy new year
check out 'the nihilistic realism podcast' - a similar vibe
Clarification at the beginning: hysterical!
Forever young
And necessary. Al Assad is such a brutal savage murderer he should be dragged back to Syria for trial
I adopted a very ill rescue dog many years ago…she was an ugly little thing and we took her because we knew she was basically inadoptable. As our love grew we realized our Annie was actually quite beautiful…despite the fact that her physical appearance never really changed
I just love these. Happy New Year Sapolsky family. You know I didn’t have an Ivy League education or a bachelors degree. Using drugs I met a fellow from Harvard and we became good friends. As we were discussing sobering up he changed the way I think. Discussing what’s a loose association and what’s in fact a fact. So after 5 years of getting sober and learning about the brain, psychology and this new way of thinking, reading books like Determined, watching these videos gives me a new sensibility in life. And a new way to think. So thank you!
I'm genuinely happy for you, Jerry!
God bless this man.
Happy new year Sapolsky family! You guys make the morning commute better.
Thank you for answering my question and talking about the cerebellum! That really clarified some things. The kinds of things we're seeing in my dad that are a bit like dementia seem almost opposite of what is described as typical dementia so that makes a lot of sense. I've found a little bit here and there about cognitive functions of the cerebellum but I'm very glad to hear your take on it. I'll share this in the SCA groups I'm in.
Happy new year and thanks again for this series. 🎉
Particularly loved the cerebellum question. Thanks for submitting! 👍🏼🫶🏻
Wishing you and your family all the best for what will undoubtably be a challenging year ❤
The video quality is top notch in this one...love the Sapolsky's. They are the best.
Ha, I thought it was strange prof. Sapolsky didn't mention the Halo effect, just to see Rachel at the end save the day. Another insightful and humorous episode!
I found George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s book “Metaphors We Live By” to be pretty fascinating. They see metaphors being used in everyday language which helps us understand more abstract things.
Excellent discussion, as always! Thank you!
VERY enjoyable show tonight, THANK YOU!!!
Interesting Alzheimer's discussion. Thank you. My father suffered from this most horrible disease, and I definitely saw what you described. ❤
A decent 2025!! From Brazil, I've just learned a word: dweeb. Thank you so much for posting it today; so empathetic of the both of you. 💜
This is amazing please don't stop this videos people must know about reality....
Thanks for being awesome. Both of ya I reckon. You continue to be a great educator. I rewatched that episode with Alam Alda having a walk and talk, and you still sound just as smart and respectful as you did way back then.
Thankyou! Love your sense of humor😄
For those unaware, procedural memory (or more specifically motor memory) is roughly synonymous with what is colloquially known as "muscle memory".
It might help you better understand the cerebellum question, to think "muscle memory" when Sapolsky talks about "procedural memory".
For the "well-actually" crowd (which includes me 👋)...
By "roughly synonymous", I mean muscle/motor memory are both subtypes of procedural memory. The cerebellum is associated with both.
Sapolsky's example of grandpa Tom reciting a 20 minute lecture on architecture, could be considered an example of a procedural memory that's non-motor based.
I thought that the basal ganglia were involved in storing motor programs that resulted from massed practice. Is this incorrect?
@@Fred-n7l My understanding is that the basal ganglia are more important for the learning phase, and the cerebellum is important for the recall phase of procedural memory.
Though under the dominant synaptic plasticity theory of learning, memory and learning are kind of the same thing.
So the cerebellum and basal ganglia are both associated with procedural memory.
I can’t begin to express how useful & meaningful these talks are. But I also want to express a finding I made; through NHK I saw a health program on the importance of avoiding falls (aged population+broken hips=bad)and that balance could be improved by engaging the cerebellum with peripheral eye exercises. The improved balance (which can be tested by standing with parallel feet, one in front of the other, and closing your eyes) is temporary and relies on continuing the daily eye exercises. Great! I could measure the effectiveness and took it on as a habit. Now the weird part: it turned out to be a way to deal with intrusive thoughts and lessened anxieties that were deepening themselves. I’ve since discovered that EMDR exists but it seems to be rather “woo”. The balance improvement through peripheral eye exercises can be experienced and observed/recorded. The easing of intrusive anxieties seems to be an unexpected side effect. Anyway, it’s working for me as a two for one deal. To do the exercise you hold your arms up so that they are parallelish with the ground, hold up your thumbs so that they are each at the outer edge of your eyesight (about a 90degree angle from each other), then you hold your head still looking straight ahead and begin a ping pong game with your eyes, focus on the right thumb, focus on the left thumb, and so on, quickly, to and fro, and repeat from 30 to 50 times. Once or twice a day. Easy! Do the standing up with your eyes closed thing to check your progress (or deterioration).
I know you said the cerebellum isn’t of great interest to you, but I’d love to know what your thoughts are on this (and is it related to REM, could we somehow be cleaning away troublesome thoughts/emotions like a windscreen wiper when we sleep?)
Francine Shapiro designed EMDR and I think it’s only woo woo bc of gender factor that still plagues academic fields to this day. Good luck with your pursuit. I use side to side eye movement for acute anxiety.
Your comment seems interesting so I'll read it later... I'm concentrating on The Beard atm
I am now hoping to be embroiled in a conversation where I can use the phrase 'chronostatic nirvana' and seem smarter than I am!
At 12:59 you made this Floridian's day!
Good morning sir Sapolsky
Another great episode, happy new year from Ireland!
Thanks for another great episode, you two! Fascinating information! Happy New Year!
Always great content and something new to learn. May 2025 bring us more wisdom about the neurobiology of human behavior and the beard! Thank you for all of your time and effort producing this podcast!
First view ! Yay. Happy new year all from NZ !
Happy New Year from Burlingame, San Francisco, Stockholm and London.
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness" Leo Tolstoy (allegedly)
Doc's answer to question #2 reminds me of the movie Shallow Hal. Thanks for the video Doc and Rachel.
Love it!!! Thank you!!! 🙌🙌
Wonderful episode!
Interesting and thought provoking as always! Thank you.
Yeeeaaahh cerabelum:) i play guitar and iv seen my hands just take over and i didnt know it lol!:) thank
You guys.. and the beard! Happy new year sopolski family!!:)
Thx a lot for today´s questions! Video ist super al always, but Q3 is particularly interesting for my volunteer work, where building and establishing routines is a major topic.
I love these discussions! Always interesting and always learn something new.
Happy New Year to all who make these possible!
This is great. The section about the Cerebellum explains technically why the late pianist John Ogden could still perform concertos for years after he couldn't remember where he was or who his family were. Sadly this British pianists was abused by his manager, who made him carry on performing, long after he should have been allowed to retire.... he died in his 50s.
Before age 50, getting the senior citizen discount (wearing sunglasses and the mask) was a win for me!
Super interesting and always something learned as usual. Thank you both
Instant like👍
Haven't heard the word "strumpet" for a while.
Great word
Happy New Year from France !
who else asked about the dimensions of Churchill's patootie, I'm sure we're going to get that one answered next episode
Happy New Year from Italy
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happy new year
Do a podcast with slavoj zizek, would love to here the views on determinism, free will, freedom.
So appreciative
Brilliant
I suspect 2025 will not be a better year for the earth than 2024 was, but I'm trying to see it as an opportunity to focus on bettering my personal situation.
All the Best in 2025 Shere-Sapolsky family 🎉❤🎉 Thanks for another Ab-Fab video! 🥳
Terror Management Theory has actually shown that both ageism and youthful striving have existential motivations beyond pragmatic survival and reproduction. In indigenous cultures where individuals have a stronger faith in the afterlife & their own cosmic significance, old age doesn’t elicit the same mortality salience.
Intresting...
I've heard terror management is staying preoccupied with life and goals, ect.ect, so as not to think of your imminent death of your physical body...
@@jamesbishop9156
yup there’s a few TMT studies on the existential role of busyness like this one etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=ohiou151776776512545&disposition=inline
Ernest Becker, from whom the theory derives had a somewhat more poetic way of putting it in his book The Denial of Death:
“When the awareness dawns that has always been blotted out by frenetic, ready-made activity, we see the transmutation of repression redistilled, so to speak, and the fear of death emerges in pure essence. This is why people have psychotic breaks when repression no longer works, when the forward momentum of activity is no longer possible.”
@@jamesbishop9156
yup there’s a few TMT studies on the existential role of busyness.
Ernest Becker, from whom the theory derives had a somewhat more poetic way of putting it in his book The Denial of Death:
“When the awareness dawns that has always been blotted out by frenetic, ready-made activity, we see the transmutation of repression redistilled, so to speak, and the fear of death emerges in pure essence. This is why people have psychotic breaks when repression no longer works, when the forward momentum of activity is no longer possible.”
This was your funniest video I have ever seen.
Watched your 2023 update on the biology and psychology of depression a couple of days ago. Occurs to me that if depression increases perceptual accuracy by decreasing unwarranted optimism geriatric dementias are probably evolutionarily conserved because subclinical presentations support happy aging. Seems like the ability to remember things from long ago but not encoding recent memories suggests the precipitating event is a still-unintegrated trauma. Bet there’s a lot of complicated grief persisting in that population. Bet they also get medicated with antipsychotics to control psychomotor agitation despite the fact that psychomotor symptoms are indicative of anxiety (not psychosis).
You're making me wonder if the connection to the cerebellum is involved in my Autism, like long before I knew about it, I perceived that things never become automatic for me, that I, and other Autistics report this, have to do everything consciously, forever. When I focus on something, even breathing stops, and I have to remember to breathe, I am often gasping and out of breath after tying my shoes or something, I forgot to breathe. But this is true of many things, practice never helped with golf, not sure it does with the guitar. Perhaps pushing things off into the unconscious is an Allistic thing, or this really is a disability for me/us, maybe it's about the distributed processing thing you mentioned regarding Autistics. Interesting.
love sapolsky
Question from Trinidad: Does fasting make our brains healthier or smarter? Does it cause new neurons to grow/develop?
Happy new year from the jolly old UK "pip pip old boy" as no english person has ever said
I'd love to be able to listen. Every time I try to listen to one of these videos I have to turn it off because I absolutely cannot deal with your beloved daughter's vocal fry.
I once had to code after having a bunch of edibles. I don't remember any of it, but the result was quite good. Pretty sure I was coding on cerebellum
Imagine a determinist complimenting his daughter on never looking like a strumpet.
my chronostatic equilibrium was around the ages of 29-35 roughly, to my memory. wondering how different is for men or other factors
would coding be motor memory?
Could you say more on what is preserved and what is not in parkingsons. Also,what is happening when they go blank? Are they aware of their surroundings or what. Donell from the usa.
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Lawyers often try to appear older. This is true of both male and female lawyers
I wouldn't say it's only in the west. Chinese and Russian women are pretty well versed in anti aging skincare. And they're very good at it
I want to see you in STANDFORD
Especially interesting stuff about the cerebellum. It would seem that its precision, power, and speed might make the difference between the mediocre and magnificent in all manner of human performance. I want Tiger Woods' cerebellum. He should donate that to science when he's done with it.
I liked being my age around 45. I grew into my ears and began no to care as much about the little things.
“The beauty market, which includes skincare, fragrance, makeup, and haircare, generated approximately $430 billion in revenue in 2022 and is expected to reach approximately $580 billion by 2027.” How much of this is done to look healthy and fertile? Does enjoying the attention one gets from others (both men and women) have anything to do with this? How much money would one spend on this if there were no one else around to notice?
I heard female bowerbirds can tell a younger male from older ones by his bower building skills and i wonder if this is a way of telling age, eg via experience as a stand-in for age that can be displayed nonverbally
CAN YOU PEASE TALK ABOUT NEURO GENESIS 😭
8:43 Wait... what!?
If coming into existence is a great harm for any person if pain is considered in its full impact on a human life then youthful appeal is a ominous hazard by token of the appeal highly correlates to bringing another person into existence that would have not have to suffer the ravages of a human life.
22:08 I CALL BS ON THAT. The difference between the “beautiful” face and “ugly” face is not just aesthetics it’s facial expression. The ugly face is drawn with exaggerated V eyebrows. Besides being the stereotypical eyebrows of cartoon villains, that’s the shape human eyebrows usually form when we are angry, worried or similar. No wonder anyone would associate bad emotions with the “ugly” face.
If the study is all based on drawing like those imho it’s worthless.
I want to see a study where the ugly person has a big pudgy nose and a horrible skin condition but their expression is jovial and kind and then see how much the correlation beauty-good ugly-evil holds.
I understand the ethical concerns about using photos but there’s no point in drawing a stereotypical cartoon villain and then ask people if that looks like a villain.
Why don't you read the study, and find out what they were doing. Maybe there was a control for it. Or maybe it was a bad study. I don't think the Dr was particularly convinced that the study was good. It was just an example. You sound like a person that would enjoy learning to evaluate studies. You should see if there is a class available. One of the classes I enjoyed the most was one about evaluating research, and identifying problems. But remember, you can still learn from problematic studies, and you have to. The constraints put on scientists to protect participants sometimes means they have to do "bad" studies. Here is an example. If you are looking for the critical period for speech, a really good study would be to take 1000 babies, and isolate them from speech. Then you would expose a couple to speech every few weeks, and when they stopped being able to learn, you know you have the critical period. But you can see where that would be unethical, so you have to do "bad" but ethical studies, and know that it will take more time to get the info you want. So sometimes a "bad" study is the best you can do. And sometimes they are just bad.
I think you're on the right track in the fact that there may actually be a VALID correlation to SOME DEGREE between how someone looks and their moral character...
Question: Does The Beard believe the universe is governed by chaos theory. It dovetail well with no free will.🎉
The Halo effect ..to associate good looks with say morality
Dweebs aside, secondary signals in trendy clothes, makeup, hairdos, etc., always made me doubt the honesty of those women who engage in such behaviors. When several women are together and they each are similarly dressed, I feel sad for them because they can only attract gullible men who accept the camouflage as truth in advertising .
I remember hearing women's eggs are healthier when young and that might have something to do with men finding them more attractive??
A woman in her 20's has the highest chances of getting pregnant, but it is also affected by a person's health
I’d like to see more input from the offspring in 2025
Funny how Robert says his daughter never dressed like a strumpet when she was growing up, and yet there she is today wearing a black choker around her neck. Robert not up to date on late twentieth/early twenty-first century semiotics or is he being ironic?
Don't adolescents just copy young adult pop culture aestetics? I don't think any adolescent girls consciously want to look like prostitutes (strumpets)...
Doesn't the same thing happen with smoking? Teenagers start smoking not because they enjoy it but because it is made to look cool in pop culture and media.
Maybe it speaks to my own bias than it does to the facts, but I don't understand Sapolsky's view of the cerebellum as not all that interesting. At the risk of sounding like an old freudian fart, what's going on in the brain follow Freud's 80/20 rule that 80 percent of our experience resides in the unconscious mind (the cerebellum), and the cerebrum only is responsible for the other 20%. .There seems to be some more current neuroscience to back it up as well: From what I understand, the cerebellum is at the top of the hierarchy in terms of sensory processing, and it sends nonverbal instructions down to the cerebrum to translate into conscious experiences. I hate to use wikipedia as a reference, so pardon me if I quote it, " In humans, the cerebellum plays an important role in motor control and cognitive functions such as attention and language as well as emotional control such as regulating fear and pleasure responses."
I know I seem to be in a more pleasant mood when I perform behaviors that are purported to stimulate the cerebellum, i.e., dance, yoga, and the martial arts. Sometimes, if I'm in a rush, I'll just sit in a desk chair and spin around as much as I can tolerate. Once I stop, my disorientation kind of forces me to pay attention to what is viscerally real, rather than all that bullshit that is going on inside my cranium.
I enjoyed reading; The Case Against Reality, How evolution hid the truth from our eyes, by Donald Hoffman.
Physical attraction is a very interesting subject. 👍😁🫶❤️💯✨️🩷😎💚