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The Moral Science PodcastEvolved Reason and Shared Challenges Yield Cooperation with Michael McCulloughDr. Michael McCullough is a professor of psychology at University of California, San Diego. There, he directs the Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory, where his team studies the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to cooperation, altruism, and aggression. His work also addresses shortcomings in the measurement of forgiveness, empathy, and altruism. He has authored and co-authored five books on these topics, the most recent of which we discuss in this podcast. In The Kindness of Strangers, Mike traces the interaction of social challenges and reason throughout history. We discuss how these interactions have shaped what it means to be cooperative...
2021-03-301h 07The Moral Science PodcastWould You Rather, Phantom Costs, and Conspiracy Theories with Andrew VonaschDr. Andrew Vonasch is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Canterbury where he researches moral rationality. His academic training in economics and psychology has informed his interest in agency and divergences from the rational actor model. Specifically, Andy is interested in how people will incur costs to demonstrate that they are moral, and to ensure that other people behave morally too. In this podcast we discuss his work regarding costly tradeoffs in reputation management and tendencies to project hidden motives, or so-called phantom costs, onto others.
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2020, October 13). Would Y...
2020-10-131h 09The Moral Science PodcastReligion as a Context for Character Development with Sarah SchnitkerDr. Sarah Schnitker is a Professor of Psychology and Nueroscience at Baylor University, where she directs the science of virtues lab. She previously researched as an associate professor in the Thrive Center for Human Development at Fuller Theological Seminary. As a principle investigator, Sarah has secured more than $3.5 million in research funding through the John Templeton Foundation for a number of projects with various aims, including understanding gratitude towards God and fleshing out a foundation for the scientific study of patience. In this podcast, we discuss her work which focuses on the role of religiosity as a fertile context...
2020-09-2256 minThe Moral Science PodcastThe Arrow of Moral Progress with Steven PinkerDr. Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on a number of topics, including visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. His work has received a number of prestigious prizes, including the Troland Research Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to his impressive scholarly work, Dr. Pinker has also drawn attention as a public intellectual. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and has written nine books, including the New York Time best sellers, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. In this podcast...
2020-09-0857 minThe Moral Science PodcastBabies are Judging You with Kiley HamlinDr. J Kiley Hamlin is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Canadian Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. There she directs the Centre for Infant Cognition, where she examines the developmental origins of moral judgments in preverbal babies and young toddlers. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Association for Psychological Science, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the John Templeton Foundation, among others. In this episode, we discuss her research which illuminates when and how babies express the earliest forms of a moral sense.
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2020-08-2549 minThe Moral Science PodcastThe Best Leaders are Humble with Bradley OwensDr. Brad Owens is an Associate Professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. There his teaching and research focus on ethical leadership in business. His work examines the impact of humility on leader effectiveness, relational energy, and team functioning, and has received a number of awards and funding from The Academy of Management, as well as the Templeton Foundation. Brad’s work has received wide media coverage, including in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review. In this podcast, Brad and I discuss the details of what humility is, how it is of...
2020-08-1148 minThe Moral Science PodcastMorality Amid COVID-19 with Bengt Brülde, Bradford Cokelet, Debra Lieberman, Richard Shweder, and Liane YoungIn this episode, five scholars of morality talk about their observations of ethics during the coronavirus pandemic. These scholars include Bengt Brülde, an Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg and University West in Sweden, where he studies well-being, bioethics, and business ethics; Bradford Cokelet, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas where he researches comparative ethics, character, and agency; Debra Lieberman, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami, where she uses principles of evolutionary biology to understand disgust and altruism; Richard Shweder, Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Human Development at t...
2020-06-161h 20The Moral Science PodcastMoral Impartiality, Third Party Judgment, and George Floyd Riots with Peter DeScioliDr. Peter DeScioli is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on Moral Politics and Public Policy. His research concerns how people strategically form friendships, how people understand notions of property and ownership, and the role of moral condemnation in social functioning. Today, we discuss his research on moral condemnation—the function of moral impartiality, third party judgement and punishment. Specifically, we talk about his theory which construes moral judgement as playing a functional role in reducing the costliness of conflicts as they arise.
Transcript available at: https://www.ambercazzell.co...
2020-06-091h 00The Moral Science PodcastDeep Pragmatism with Joshua GreeneDr. Joshua Greene is a Psychology Professor and a faculty member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. His work focuses on the dual-process theory of emotions and reason as it relates to moral judgment. He is perhaps most known for his past neuropsychological work involving the trolley dilemma. Today, he continues his research into strategies for effective altruism and how to apply principles of what he calls “deep pragmatism,” for solving large-scale social challenges. We discuss the principles of deep pragmatism, as outlined in his book Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them...
2020-05-261h 03The Moral Science PodcastThe Stubbornness of Convictions with Linda SkitkaDr. Linda Skitka is a psychology professor and associate department head at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as a professor of political science by courtesy. She has been the president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and an associate editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Social Justice Research. She has received numerous awards for her service. Her research spans a broad range of topics, but she is perhaps best known for her work on justice, the precursors...
2020-04-2842 minThe Moral Science PodcastDiversity and Deviance with Jennifer Cole WrightDr. Jennifer Cole Wright is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of Charleston, where she directs the Moral Lab. There, she researches meta-ethical pluralism and the foundational role of humility in virtue development. Her forthcoming book, Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement, written in collaboration with Nancy Snow and Michael Warren, is set for release late this year. In this podcast, we talk about how people tease diversity apart from deviance. We discuss the role of morality in producing conformity, and how perceived social domains, folk metaethical understandings, and social practices aimed at virtue development bear upon the...
2020-03-311h 11The Moral Science PodcastMoral Sentiments and the Mythical Homo Economicus with Russ RobertsDr. Russ Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has taught economics at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California–Los Angeles. In 2006, he launched the popular podcast, EconTalk, which he continues to host today. He has also authored 5 books, including Gambling with Other People’s Money which was released last year (2019), and How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. In this episode, we discuss Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, and how character is a priori to the in...
2020-03-1758 minThe Moral Science PodcastDungeons and Dragons and Political Ideology with Stephen VaiseyDr. Stephen Vaisey is a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Duke University. He is the Director of the Worldview Lab at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, where he studies the nature, origins, and effects of moral and political beliefs. Dr. Vaisey was part of the research team for the National Study of Youth and Religion, and is the Principal Investigator of the Measuring Morality Project. In this podcast, we discuss four popular theories of how morality and political ideology are related, the need for a developmental science of moralization, the power of shared communal values for behavioral...
2020-03-101h 06The Moral Science PodcastConsciousness, Evolution, and Morality with Robert WrightRobert Wright is a journalist and the best-selling author of Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, The Moral Animal, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Evolution of God, and Why Buddhism is True. He has edited for Time and Slate and has written for The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, and New York Times Magazine, among others. He is a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary and the founder of the Nonzero Foundation, as well as a director of Bloggingheads.tv and MeaningofLife.tv, where you can...
2020-03-0359 minThe Moral Science PodcastAlgorithmic Fairness and Its Discontents with Sharad GoelDr. Sharad Goel is a professor of Management Science and Engineering, as well as a professor of Computer Science and Law at Stanford University. He is the founder and executive director of the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, where he uses advanced data science techniques to examine the effects of social and political policies, and how those policies might be improved upon. In this episode, we discuss the intractability of algorithmic fairness. We explore how decision systems are being used and implemented in unsettling ways, and the mathematical reasons that three common goals for achieving algorithmic fairness are mutually-exclusive.
2020-02-2559 min
The Moral Science PodcastBecoming Virtuous with Nancy SnowDr. Nancy Snow is a philosophy Professor and the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. She co-directed the Self, Motivation, and Virtue Project, and is the principle investigator of the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project. She has edited six research volumes, and authored two books, including one written with Jennifer Cole Wright and Michael Warren, titled Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement, which is set for publication next year. In this podcast, we discuss Dr. Snow’s account of how people develop virtue through the natural course of their everyday li...
2020-02-1851 minThe Moral Science PodcastIndigenous Wisdom with Darcia NarvaezDr. Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. There, she directs the Evolved Developmental Morality Lab, where her program of research concerns how provision of physical, emotional, and social resources early in life bear upon the development of ethical behavior. In this episode, we discuss her recent book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing, edited along with Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, and Georges Enderle. The conversation focuses on indigenous ethical traditions, and how those traditions conceptualize humanity’s relationship with and responsibilities to the natural world.
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2020-02-1151 minThe Moral Science PodcastGame Theory, Evolution, and Morality with Oliver Scott CurryDr. Oliver Scott Curry is the research director of Kindlab, and a researcher at Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography as well as the London School of Economics’ Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. His work weaves philosophy, psychology, and anthropology together to tackle questions about the nature of human morality. In this episode, we discuss his theory of morality as cooperation, and the evolutionary and game theory perspectives that underpin it. We also compare and contrast his theory with Moral Foundations Theory, Richard Shweder’s “big three” ethics, and the Relationship Regulation Theory of morality.
2020-02-0454 minThe Moral Science PodcastEthics of Market Efficiency with Jonathan WightDr. Jonathan Wight is a professor of economics in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. He has authored and coauthored four books, including most recently Ethics in Economics: An Introduction to moral frameworks. Much of his work concerns the intersection of ethics and economics pedagogy, including a Templeton Foundation backed project which introduced ethics in economics to several thousand economics teachers. In this podcast, we discuss the ethical underpinnings of differing definitions of market efficiency.
Full transcript available at: https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep24-jonathanwight
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R...
2020-01-2859 minThe Moral Science PodcastEthics of the East Part 2 with Bradford CokeletDr. Bradford Cokelet is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. His work focuses on Eastern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and applied ethics. In this podcast, Brad returns to finish discussing Eastern Ethical traditions—how they compare with one another, and how they contrast with Western Ethical traditions.
Transcript available at: APA citation: https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep23-bradcokelet
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2020, January 21). Ethics of the East Part 2 with Bradford Cokelet [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep23-bradcokelet
2020-01-211h 10The Moral Science PodcastThe Ethics of Batman and Captain America with Mark D. WhiteDr. Mark D. White is the chair of the philosophy department at the College of Staten Island CUNY, where he teaches courses on philosophy, economics, and law. He is also a professor of economics at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He has written and edited ten scholarly books on the intersection of these disciplines, including the Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics. Additionally, Mark has written eight popular books about the ethical philosophies underpinning pop culture series. Today, we contrast the ethical philosophies of Batman and Captain America, and what these narratives might reveal about popular construals of morality.
2020-01-071h 03The Moral Science PodcastThe Moral Muscle with Roy BaumeisterDr. Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist known for his research in a number of diverse areas, including: self-control, decision-making, the need to belong, human sexuality, self-destructive behaviors, and free will. He has published more than 600 empirical articles and 35 books. His work has been cited more than 187,000 times, landing him on the ISI highly-cited researcher list twice. In this podcast, we discuss his work with self-control, the so-called “moral muscle,” and the challenges put forward against the strength model of self-control.
Transcript available at: https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep21-RoyBaumeister
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R...
2019-12-171h 08The Moral Science PodcastMoral Identity Doesn't Fall from the Sky with Tobias KrettenauerDr. Tobias Krettenauer is a professor of psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he directs the Morality, Identity, and Environmental Sustainability Research Group. He is also a consulting editor for Child Development and an associate editor of the Journal of Moral Education. Dr. Krettenauer’s current work examines morality and sustainability, the relationship between moral identity and moral emotions, and how moral identity is shaped by culture. He is most known, however, for his focus on how moral identity develops in adolescence and adulthood, which we discuss in this episode.
Transcript available at: https://www.ambercazzell.com/po...
2019-12-101h 00The Moral Science PodcastMorality is Relationship Regulation with Tage RaiDr. Tage Rai is the Associate Editor for social sciences at Science magazine, and is a research associate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on moral conflict, violence, and personhood, and has been published in top academic journals, including Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Psychological Review, as well as a trade book titled Virtuous Violence which was published in 2014. In this podcast, we discuss his work with Alan Fiske to develop the relationship regulation theory of morality—a theory that moral judgments and actions stem from our desire to maintain cert...
2019-11-261h 05The Moral Science PodcastA Brief Overview of the Sociology of Morality with Steven HitlinDr. Steven Hitlin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on the sociology of morality, and has written and co-edited four books, including the Handbook of Sociology of Morality, as well as a second volume of the handbook to be published in 2021. His work has been supported by multiple grants, including funding from the MINERVA initiative to study “Moral Schemas, Cultural Conflict, and Socio-Political Action.” In this episode, we discuss sociology’s traditional interest in morality, Steven’s hopes for a renewed vigor in the sociology of morality and part...
2019-11-191h 08The Moral Science PodcastThe Value-Laden Nature of Well-Being with Gregg HenriquesDr. Gregg Henriques is a Professor of Psychology at James Madison University. Over many years, he has been working to develop an integrated way of understanding how psychological sciences are related to other physical and social sciences, and how to coherently approach the study of psychology. He is the author of A New Unified Theory of Psychology, and is a leader of the Unified Psychotherapy Movement and the Theory of Knowledge Society. In this podcast, we discuss his nested model of well-being: a unified approach to understanding well-being that moves beyond subjective judgments in order to account for physical...
2019-11-121h 12The Moral Science PodcastPeople are Mixed Bags with Christian MillerDr. Christian Miller is the A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on the philosophy of religion and contemporary ethics. He has co-directed the $3.9 million Beacon Project to examine moral exemplars and, more recently, the $5.6 million Character Project which funded 28 scholars to examine the existence and nature of character and virtue. He has published two academic books, as well as one trade book titled The Character Gap: How Good Are We? In this episode, Dr. Miller and I talk about the emergence, development, and varieties of the situationist challenge—the idea that situations di...
2019-11-051h 04The Moral Science PodcastThe Good Samaritan and Moral Motivation with Daniel BatsonDr. Daniel Batson has a PhD in Social Psychology and Theology, and is an emeritus professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Tennessee and the University of Kansas. His distinguished career began in graduate school, in which he and his adviser, John Darley, designed and conducted what is now famously known as the Good Samaritan Study. This study subsequently fueled the so-called “situationist challenge.” He is also renown for defending “empathy-induced altruism” against Robert Cialdini’s selfishly-motivated altruism in a professional debate which played out over many years. In this podcast, we discuss these lines of work, and how th...
2019-10-291h 06The Moral Science PodcastEthics of the East and West with Bradford CokeletDr. Bradford Cokelet is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He has written and coedited three books, including the Moral Psychology of Guilt, which is to be published this month. He is also the recipient of two Templeton Foundation grants to study character, virtue, and motivation. His work concerns Eastern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and applied ethics. In this podcast, Brad and I talk about ethical traditions of the East and West, and begin to discuss how to meaningfully compare and contrast traditions.
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2019, October 22). Ethics of...
2019-10-221h 10The Moral Science PodcastNaturalism and the Convivial Social Life with Owen FlanaganDr. Owen Flanagan is the James B Duke professor of philosophy and Neurobiology at Duke University, where he co-directs the Center for Comparative Philosophy. Recently, he was also a Rockefeller Fellow at National Humanities Center, as well as a Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Flanagan has written and edited 13 books, including The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World published in 2007, and The Geography of Morals published in 2017. His distinguished work concerns the philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and comparative ethics. In this podcast, we discuss the...
2019-10-151h 02The Moral Science PodcastWorking with Kohlberg and Teaching for Excellence with Anne ColbyDr. Anne Colby is a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Center on Adolescence. Prior to her appointment at Stanford, she directed the Henry Murray Research Center at Harvard, and was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has authored and co-authored eleven books, including Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession, which received the 2013 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. Dr. Colby’s research has focused on moral development, purpose, and the ways in which education can foster excellence through disciplinary practices, each of which we discuss in this episode.
2019-10-081h 05The Moral Science PodcastMoral Exemplars and Beyond-the-Self Purpose with William DamonDr. William Damon is a Professor of Education at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Adolescence and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research has received numerous grants and awards from several Foundations and trusts, including the John Templeton, Andrew Mellon, and Spencer Foundations. He has authored and co-authored fifteen books on the topics of child development, education, morality, and purpose, including Greater Expectations which received the Parent’s Choice book award. Throughout his distinguished career, he has focused on a number of topics related to moral development. In this podcast, we discuss his re...
2019-10-011h 07The Moral Science PodcastDevelopment of Prosocial Motivations with Gustavo CarloDr. Gustavo Carlo is the Millsap Endowed Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri. He is also the director and co-director of two centers there: The Center for Family Policy and Research and the Center for Children and Families Across Cultures. In 2017, he was named a University of Missouri Top Achiever and he has received numerous awards for his excellence in mentorship. Dr. Carlo’s research concerns prosocial and moral development, and how cultural variables are related to that development. In particular he’s researched positive deve...
2019-09-241h 16The Moral Science PodcastEthical Pluralism and Multicultural Exchanges with Richard ShwederDr. Richard Shweder is the Harold H Swift Distinguished service professor of Human Development in the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development. Dr. Shweder’s anthropological work has received numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Association for the Advancement Socio-Psychological Prize for his essay, “Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally?” and, in 2016, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. His fieldwork in Orissa, India led to his pluralistic theory of the “big three ethics,” which influenced the later development of several psychological theories, including Moral Foundations Theory. His recent wo...
2019-09-171h 08The Moral Science PodcastMind Perception and the Trouble with Moral Platypuses with Kurt GrayDr. Kurt Gray is an associate professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There, he directs the Mind Perception and Morality Lab—a research lab dedicated to understanding who we interpret to have minds, and why it matters. Specifically, Dr. Gray and his research team examine how mind perception influences moral judgments. In this podcast, we discuss his research, his new Center for the Science of Moral Understanding which aims to reduce social and political polarization, as well as his most recent book co-edited with Jesse Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology.
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2019-09-1052 min
The Cazzell ReportBusiness Operations, Purposeful Education, and Money and Cultural Values with Linh SmookeLinh Smooke is the COO of the popular independent tech publication, Hacker Noon. Hacker Noon reaches 1-2M people each month, and has recently moved off of Medium. In this episode, Amber and Linh discuss the behind-the-scenes operations of Hacker Noon, Linh's experience empowering people in education, the obsession of startup culture's "hustle porn," and how economic transactions implicate cultural values.
2019-09-041h 33The Moral Science PodcastThe Evolved Nest with Darcia NarvaezDr. Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. There, she directs the Evolved Developmental Morality Lab, where her program of research concerns how provision of physical, emotional, and social resources early in life bear upon the development of ethical behavior. This early physical and social environment, the so-called “evolved nest,” and it’s effects are the topic of our conversation today. Her recent work and book, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing, concerns understanding and integrating indigenous wisdom for how to live a good life. In addition to her scholarly works...
2019-09-031h 05The Moral Science PodcastFairness, Equality, and Research Framing with Mark SheskinDr. Mark Sheskin is an assistant professor of social sciences at Minerva Schools at KGI and an instructor in the cognitive science department at Yale university. He’s also the co-leader of the Child Lab, where he’s working to harness the power of the internet to conduct studies with children online. In this podcast, we discuss his research focus on the origins of fairness motivations, how studies of prosociality are affected by research framing, as well as his involvements at Minerva, Yale, and the Child Lab.
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8:00 - Tinbergen's four questions
11:00 - Pape...
2019-08-201h 14The Moral Science PodcastAristotelian Virtue Ethics with Blaine FowersDr. Blaine Fowers is a professor at the University of Miami’s Department of Education and Psychological Studies, and is the founder of the Network for Research on Morality. His research focuses on Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and character development, with an emphasis on application of the rich theory that sets Aristotelian ethics apart from other ethical traditions. He is the author and coauthor of five books, including Frailty, Suffering, and Vice: Flourishing in the face of human limitations. In this podcast, we discuss his scholarship, as well as his purpose and plans for the Network of Research on Morality....
2019-08-061h 06The Moral Science PodcastThe Case for Moral Realism with Brent SlifeDr. Brent Slife is an Emeritus professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University and is the Editor-in-chief of the APA’s Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He has been honored with numerous awards for his outstanding research and teaching career and in addition to these many achievements, he’s authored and co-authored 9 books. Today, we discuss his most recent book, co-edited with Stephen Yanchar, titled Hermeneutic Moral Realism: Theory and Practice.
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Dr. Slife's book, Hermeneutic Moral Realism in Psychology: Theory and Practice
Relationally-oriented girls' boarding school, Greenbrier Academy
2019-07-231h 05
Tech Stories from HackerNoonE57 - Centralized, Decentralized, and Independent Media with David Smooke of Hacker NoonCentralized, Decentralized, and Independent Media with David Smooke of Hacker Noon
Episode 57 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with David Smooke of Hacker Noon
Sponsor:Alpaca - “Hack Financial Systems”
Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.
In this episode Amber Cazzell interviews David Smooke of Hacker Noon. David shares his insights and experiences taking a startup from conception to successful business in the digital publication space. As well as the decisions that motivated the move from Medium to developing Hacker Noon’s own platform...
2019-07-171h 28The Cazzell ReportFounding Hacker Noon, Independent Publications, and the Future of Tech with David SmookeDavid Smooke is the founder and CEO of the popular independent tech publication, Hacker Noon. Hacker Noon reaches 1-2M people each month, and is in the process of leaving Medium. In this episode, David discusses how Hacker Noon began, why they are leaving Medium, independent tech publications and his predictions for the future of artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized technologies.
2019-07-101h 24The Moral Science PodcastThe Making of Moral Foundations Theory with Jesse GrahamDr. Jesse Graham is the George S Eccles chair in business ethics, and an associate professor of management at the University of Utah. He’s most known for his work with Jonathan Haidt in developing Moral Foundations Theory—a theory that basic moral foundations guide a wide-array of behaviors and ideological preferences, political ones. In this podcast, Jesse and I talk about his experience in developing the theory, what theoretical challenges it faces, and his work to apply MFT to behavioral nudging.
3:10- The Emotional Dog paper by Haidt
7:10- Joseph & Haidt 2004 paper
8:30- Pap...
2019-07-091h 09The Moral Science Podcast"Stupid Rules": Social Domains and Moral Development with Larry NucciDr. Larry Nucci is an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, an emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Human Development. His research pertains to the social and moral development of children, and he’s worked to apply social domain theory to moral education programs. In this podcast, Larry and I discuss his work with Elliot Turiel to flesh out Social Domain Theory against the backdrop of Richard Shweder’s three ethics, and the later emergence of Moral Foundations Theory.
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2019-06-251h 02The Cazzell ReportBuilding Bitcoin, Voluntaryism, and Online Identity with Martti MalmiMartti 'Sirius' Malmi flew out form Finland, and we got to discuss his personal and political values of "voluntaryism." In this episode of the Cazzell Report, Martti shares how his voluntaryism led him from building out the Bitcoin websites and forums with Satoshi Nakamoto, to his current project which focuses on building a decentralized online identity system.
2019-06-172h 00
The Moral Science PodcastA Brief History of Moral Psychology with Sam HardyDr. Sam Hardy, an associate professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, describes the branches of moral psychology that emerged in the wake of Lawrence Kholberg's theory of cognitive moral development.
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Video about Kholberg's theory of moral stages
Richard Shweder's three ethics
Moral foundations theory website
Jonathan Haidt's "The emotional dog and it's rational tail: A social-intuitionist approach to moral judgement"
Moral identity approaches: Blasi's moral identity, Colby & Damon's book on moral exemplars, Larry Walker's lay conceptions of morality
Turiel & Nucci's S...
2019-06-111h 09
The Cazzell ReportPodcasting Adventures, Decentralized Distribution, and IP Laws with Charles Max Wood In this episode of the Cazzell Report, Charles Max Wood talks about founding and growing DevChat.TV. DevChat.TV includes a collection of 19 popular computer developer podcasts collectively reaching 70,000+ listeners per week. Charles discusses the challenges of podcasting, his new startup (PodWrench) geared to meet those challenges, and his plans to release 6 more developer podcasts. Amber and Charles also discusses open-source development, IP Laws, and ethical sponsorship -based monetization.
2019-05-201h 32
The Cazzell ReportSlanted News, Journalist Layoffs, and Consumers as the Fake News Remedy with Noah SmithNoah Smith (journalist and contributor to the Washington Post), joins Amber in a discussion on AirBnb's Jewish listing ban, the Covington Catholic news debacle, the Gillette ad, journalistic layoffs, and how to address fake news.
2019-04-1144 min
The Cazzell ReportSocial Collateral and the Future of Economic Exchanges with Dan FinlayDan Finlay is the cofounder of the popular browser extension MetaMask. Listen to his thoughts about the moneyless future of the economy on this episode of the Cazzell Report.
2019-02-171h 32
The Cazzell ReportIsraeli War, Surf Gangs, and Fake News with Noah SmithNoah Smith, an Oxford and University of Michigan anthropologist and investigative journalist, discusses his time immersed in the Israeli-Palestinian war, dog breeds (with a treat guest appearance of Shemesh!), fake news, the intellectual dark web, and surfing gangs warring to protect their turfs in this episode of The Cazzell Report.
2019-02-051h 53
The Cazzell ReportDecentralized YouTube, Economic Games, and Hypocrisy with Adrien MarieD.Tube founder, Adrien Marie, flew out from France and we got to catch up with him on the forefront of crypto, tech, ethics, behavior, and more!
2018-11-211h 19
The Cazzell ReportRegulating Monopolies, Open Sourcing Uber, and Dreaming Big with Mark NadalDr. Cazzell interviews Mark Nadal (CEO of ERA) on the future of decentralization.
2018-11-0417 min