Joseph Henrich
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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So that begins to spread in this, well, 16th, 17th century.
And so by the time you add all this stuff, it basically starts to look a lot like Europe.
Interesting.
And these are all things that are global now, right?
So the universal schooling that we find around the world today, you know, begins with the Protestant Reformation, you know, in Germany and then later England.
Right.
Universities models are the European university and globalized.
Well, so my story is that the rise of the Industrial Revolution in Europe has to do with the consolidation of Europe's collective brain.
And one of the things that requires is trust in strangers and at least the beginnings of moral universalism.
And it's that moral universalism that eventually causes the British to say –
we've got to stop with the slave trade thing.
And, you know, it's a moral decision that they make because it's no longer consistent with the changing moral values over time.
Right.
Yeah.
So the first observation is that there's a great deal of global psychological variation around the world.
So European, American, Australian populations tend to be highly individualistic.
They're inclined towards analytic thinking over holistic thinking.
They have a lot of impersonal prosociality, so trust in strangers.
They're against conformity, willingness to cooperate with strangers.
So the question is how can we explain the global variation in these features of psychology?
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