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Podcast: Freedom Pact | Joseph and Lewis
Episode: #373: Professor Bill Von Hippel - How The Modern World Has Made Us Miserable & Lonely
Description: Bill Von Hippel is one of the worlds most renowned Social Psychologists, a best-selling author and private research consultant. Bills work has spanned several topics, including how our evolutionary past influence our cognitive, social and emotional lives today.Bills new book ‘The Social Paradox’ is available now. Buy and connect with Bill here: https://researchwithimpact.comBill’s academic work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jEYNGCsAAAAJ&hl=enTimestamps: 00:00 How Evolution selects for adaptive traits3:30 - Two fundamental evolutionary drives in opposition 11:36 - Our hunter gatherer ancestors were much happier than we are14:30 - Did we evolve in egalitarian societies?17:10 - What...