Did Psychology Change Human Thinking? - Gregg Henriques

BEST MEDICINE PODCAST Episode 39 is here!

Sep 06, 2021

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ON THIS EPISODE OF THE BEST MEDICINE PODCAST

Our Guest: Dr Gregg Henriques

Today’s podcast is about the enlightenment gap and the ways the field of psychology has fundamentally altered human consciousness.

My friend Dr Gregg Henriques is returning to this show for the fourth time. He is an esteemed professor of psychology at James Madison University, an author, and a clinical psychologist. He’s also been doing a very large amount of podcasts lately, which are all very good. You should check them out after you finish this one :-)

This podcast’s goal was to identify exactly how the enlightenment gap is causing problems in society’s ethical decision-making process, and what might be done about that.

READ: www.bradleywerrell.com/podcast-library/did-psychology-change-human-thinking-dr-gregg-henriques

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Episode Highlights

[02:03] - Closing The Enlightenment Gap

[08:25] - Using Ecological Psychology to understand increasing layers of complexity through the Tree of Knowledge

[15:01] - The History of Gender Roles in America

[25:04] - How finding “foundational agreement” will lead to “Adaptive Action”

[32:00] - How Social Media increases tribalization and polarization by interfering with optimal sensemaking processes

[40:56] - “Is vs Ought” - switching from scientific observation to problem solving

[51:01] - How fundamentally left and right leaning people can agree on the deepest sources of truth, and why that’s more productive than worrying about politics at first

[56:05] - Finding first principles of stability at all levels of complexity

[01:02:20] - How to make empirical moral evaluations in the inter-personal and social spaces that are scientifically grounded

[01:06:00] - How the field of Psychology and the social sciences have created a “double hermeneutic” feedback loop - AKA why social science changes human consciousness

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- Previous Best Medicine Podcast Episodes:

1. "A New Theory of Knowledge"

2. "How To Deal With the Chaos of Paradigm Shifts"

3. "Academic Bravery and the Epistemology of Political Division"

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- The periodic table of behavior and a brief overview of the Tree of Knowledge

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