Positive Evolutionary Psychology - Glenn Geher | Modern Wisdom Podcast 439
Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York and an author.
Ancestral lifestyles are a big trend at the moment. Taking influence from our paleolithic past to inform how we eat, train and move in the modern world. But taking an ancestral approach to our psychological wellbeing is much rarer and this is Glenn's work - what can insights about our past teach us about how to enjoy the present.
Expect to learn why depression and anxiety might actually be useful, why understanding the reason for emotions reduces their power over you, why it's miraculous that the education system has worked at all, why men are twice as likely to die in early adulthood than women, the danger of technology through an evolutionary lens and much more...
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00:00 Intro
02:51 Evolutionary Psychology vs Positive Psychology
14:56 Risk-taking Men
24:23 Harlow’s Monkey Experiments
28:32 Our Psychologically Unhealthy Society
37:53 Education from an Evolutionary Perspective
43:48 Kindness in Evolution
48:51 What Causes Anxiety & Depression?
56:03 Feelings & Emotions of our Ancestors
1:04:16 Reinventing the Happy Life
1:11:16 Where to Find Glenn
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