#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
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The following is a conversation with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who has written extensively on a wide variety of topics that explore human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi, about bisexuality, and her new book, that you should definitely go order now, called Green Crime, which is a study of the dark underworld of poachers, illegal gold miners, corporate frauds, hip men, and all kinds of other environmental criminals. Julia is a brilliant and kind-hearted person with whom I got the chance to have many great conversations with on and off the mic.
This was an honor and a pleasure. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfriedman.com slash sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Shopify for selling stuff online, BetterHelp for mental health, Element for electrolytes, and AG1 for my daily multivitamin. Choose wisely, my friends. And now onto the full ad reads. I try to make them interesting, but if you skip, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. To get in touch with me, for whatever reason, go to letstreamin.com slash contact. All right, let's go. This episode is brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store.
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There's so many interesting details, including the fact that, as DHH talked about, that it was a modular monolith, and it was scaled horizontally in these very interesting modular ways. Again, that's probably outside of the scope of what I'm supposed to be doing here. Just another chance to celebrate the incredible engineering behind Shopify. And all of that to help you sell stuff. You can sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash Lex. That's all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash Lex to take your business to the next level today. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp, spelled H-E-L-P, help. They figure out what you need and match it with a licensed therapist in under 48 hours.
And boy, in this episode, do we delve into the dark aspects of human nature and the human mind. It is so fascinating. And what's also, I think, inspiring to me about Julia's work is that she approaches every situation, every human being with a deep empathy, realizing that each of us have the capacity for good and evil, and so much of who we are is shaped by our environment. That's a real honest way to deal with cases where humans do horrible stuff to each other, realizing that they're not somehow different than us, that we too, all of us, are capable of doing these kinds of things. And when you think of it that way, you can more honestly and rigorously analyze why people do what they do. And yes, it is a reminder how complicated the human mind is.
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