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| Name | Joseph Henrich: "WEIRD Minds: How Religion and Family Shape Psychology, Democracy, and Innovation" |
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| Video Discription | As part of the Baugh Center Free Enterprise Forum, guest speaker Joseph Henrich spoke on the topic of "WEIRD Minds: How Religion and Family Shape Psychology, Democracy, and Innovation." This lecture draws on Henrich’s award-winning book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020). WEIRD stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The book argues that unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves -- their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations -- over their relationships and social roles. Henrich draws on research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to illuminate the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. He argues that these changes gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition -- laying the foundation for the modern world. Daniel Dennett, writing in the New York Times, describes the book as “an extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel,’ … but going much farther, and bolstering the argument at every point with evidence gathered by Henrich’s ‘lab,’ with dozens of collaborators, and wielding data points from world history, anthropology, economics, game theory, psychology and biology, all knit together with ‘statistical razzle-dazzle’ when everyday statistics is unable to distinguish signal from noise." Matt Ridley, our Free Enterprise Forum from last year, says that Henrich “has thought more deeply about cultural evolution than anybody alive. His fascinating insights into just how weird people like he and I are, with our western lifestyles, and what the implications of that are for better and for worse, are a great contribution to scholarship and literature.” Joe Henrich is currently the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard, he was a professor of both Economics and Psychology at the University of British Columbia for nearly a decade, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution. His research deploys evolutionary theory to understand how human psychology gives rise to cultural evolution and how this has shaped our species’ genetic evolution. Using insights generated from this approach, Henrich has explored a variety of topics, including economic decision-making, social norms, fairness, religion, marriage, prestige, cooperation, and innovation and conducted long-term anthropological fieldwork in Peru, Chile and in the South Pacific, as well as having spearheaded several large comparative projects. In 2004 he won the Presidential Early Career Award for young scientists, and, in 2009, the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions bestowed by the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. In 2013-14, Henrich held the Peter and Charlotte Schoenenfeld Faculty Fellowship at NYU’s Stern School of Business. In 2018, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology awarded him the Wegner Prize for Theoretical Innovation. From 2010 to 2019, Henrich was a senior fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth group and he became a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2021. Henrich holds a BA in anthropology and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Notre Dame and a PhD in anthropology from UCLA. Ndip-pk1o_A |
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