Jonathan Haidt

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · An Honest Conversation About Looksmaxxing | Jonathan Haidt · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

And once again, if you wanna prepare your kids for this digital future with so much cruelty in it, don't immerse them in it early.

So it used to be the case that there were multiple ways that you could excel.

What you said is absolutely right about there, you know, one of the stronger prejudices that we have is, you know, stronger than race or gender or I don't really gender, but is beauty.

We do respond more positively to people who are beautiful or attractive.

So there is some truth to that.

And so to help your child become more attractive is not a bad thing, but to frame it around your child that your value is your looks, that's the most important thing.

I, you know,

It sounds, again, kind of cruel to me.

Our kids need to develop along... There are different lines of excellence they can develop.

And the more you focus it on looks, it's obviously horrible for girls.

And now, as you say, it's happening to boys.

Can you give us a little bit more detail?

What are the boys...

And when they come to you, what do they want to do?

What is the psychological effect of this?

The social psychology that I'll put on the table here is called prestige-biased learning.

So an interesting way to look at human beings, and this is in part from Joe Henrich, an anthropologist at Harvard.

And he points out, he and his team, his advisors,

they developed the idea that if you look at humans as learning machines and the competition in evolution was always who can learn the best, not just the fat, who can learn the best, what would you build into a mind in order to have children or humans that excel at learning cultural knowledge from previous generations?

So one heuristic is copy what's common.

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