In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worried about how politics, cults, conspiracy theories communities, social media, religious fundamentalism, polarization, and extremism are affecting us - everywhere, on and offline, across cultures, and across the world.
What is The Status Game? It’s our primate propensity to perpetually pursue points that will provide a higher level of regard among the people who can (if we provoked such a response) take those points away. And deeper still, it’s the propensity to, once we find a group of people who regularly give us those points, care about what they think more than just about anything else.
In the interview, we discuss our inescapable obsession with reputation and why we are deeply motivated to avoid losing this game through the fear of shame, ostracism, embarrassment, and humiliation while also deeply motivated to win this game by earning what will provide pride, fame, adoration, respect, and status.
046 - Inbetweenisode 11 - Steven Novella
045 - Doctors - Danielle Ofri
044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
035 - Inbetweenisode - The Sunk Cost Fallacy
034 - The Post Hoc Fallacy
033 - Belief - Will Storr
032 - Ego Depletion
031 - Extinction Burst
030 - Practice - David Epstein
029 - Labels - Adam Alter
028 - Crowds - Michael Bond
027 - Science Communication - Joe Hanson
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