Basement Cults

Co-host Dave Pietraszewski explains how he learned to love evolutionary psychology despite hating it at first, why attending basement cults as a child in upstate New York wasn’t all bad, really, and why he thinks understanding the human mind will require eventually understanding the evolutionary psychology of psychologists. 

More about Evolutionary Psychology 

The Center for Evolutionary Psychology “Primer”

More about David Pinsof: 

https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/

https://www.kremslab.com/people

More about Dave Pietraszewski: 

https://cal.psych.ucsb.edu/david-pietraszewski

Things mentioned this Episode: 

Dave & Annie Wertz’s Modularity Paper

Planetary Regression

Dave’s How our intuitive psychology shapes our science paper

Wayne Wu's paper on attention

Music by David Pinsof

Produced by Naomi Monahan-Miller