Lynne Thoman
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604 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Your examples to me are so eye-opening. Can you share the example of the Israeli soldiers and the officers?
And the soldiers themselves, because they were being treated as higher command potential, they actually did perform better. Is that right also?
So when we form an initial impression of people or when we're given an initial impression from somebody else, the people then take on the characteristics of our expectation. Is that what happens?
Because we essentially treat them differently. We treat them more favorably and they respond to that.
So for the person who's labeling some other person, whether it's the Israeli officers that are labeling the recruits, do we essentially become blind to all evidence that contradicts the initial assessment?
So what you're saying is that essentially our expectations change the way we see the world. I mean, essentially a rose by any other name doesn't actually smell as sweet.
And we are blind to anything that does not meet our expectation. We simply see things or wait things more than meet our expectation. Yes. So interesting. And how do we unblind ourselves so that we see reality more objectively?
And you use the critical word positive. How do we make our expectations more positive?
I love that. Ori, what are the three takeaways you'd like to leave the audience with today?
Thank you, Ori. This has really been wonderful.
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I'm Lynn Thoman, and this is Three Takeaways. Thanks for listening.
For centuries, we've wrestled with the question of what makes us who we are. Is it our genes or our environment? Are we born with a set of traits that define us? Or is it the world around us that shapes the course of our lives? It turns out that it's not as simple as one or the other. What have we learned about nature versus nurture and what makes us who we are?
Hi everyone, I'm Lynne Thoman and this is Three Takeaways. On Three Takeaways, I talk with some of the world's best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, newsmakers, and scientists. Each episode ends with three key takeaways to help us understand the world and maybe even ourselves a little better.
Today, I'm excited to be joined by Dalton Conley, a Princeton professor who studies the role of genes and the environment. He's the author of the new book, The Social Genome. I'm excited to rethink everything we thought we knew about the nature versus nurture debate and what makes us who we are. Welcome, Dalton, and thanks so much for joining Three Takeaways today.
It's my pleasure. Can you please read aloud a great quote of yours?
So Dalton, why wasn't it that simple? Is there one gene for arthritis or heart disease or schizophrenia?
And even the genes don't tell the whole story. Can you explain gene expression, what it is and how it works?
But it's not just the genes that we actually have, it's which genes are turned off or turned on.
So interesting. We often think of our genes and our environment as separate forces, but you believe they're actually intertwined and that there's a feedback loop. How does that work? And can you give an example? I love your example of the sprinter.
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