Culture, Killing, and PTSD with Sarah Mathew

How do evolutionary behavioral scientists think about the interplay between our psychology and culture? What causes some cultural norms to persist and spread? Do non-Western combatants in war have something like PTSD? In this episode, we explore all of these questions and more with Sarah Mathew (ASU), who talks about her work with the Turkana, and her long-term interest in the interplay between our evolved psychology of cooperation and violence, and the social norms and institutions that push and pull on our evolved psychology. 

 

More about Sarah Mathew:

https://search.asu.edu/profile/2208359

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FqTZawEAAAAJ&hl=en