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14 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“A phone is an experience blocker. That means you spend a lot less time talking to other people, in the presence of other people.”
02 / evaluation
“17 with depression, anxiety, and self-harm. So, the effect is actually much bigger than many people realize in the scientific community because you have to zoom in on girls and social media.”
03 / evaluation
“First, I believe the Time Use studies don’t count school time as time with friends because what they’re trying to do is like, how much time you’re in school, how much time you’re sleeping, how much time you’re eating, how much time you’re playing with friends.”
04 / evaluation
“Over and over again, whether we look at left-right or whether we look at religion, what we find is that it’s the secular kids and the liberal kids who got washed out to sea, got really depressed after 2012, and much less effect on the conservative and religious kids because, I think, they’re more rooted.”
05 / evaluation
“What I would say is that every culture needs a set of stories and moral values, moral principles and metaphors so that they can speak to each other, and they can quickly refer to things that have a lot of meanings for the listener.”
06 / evaluation
“” By the time I wrote chapter 7 and 8 of The Righteous Mind and really committed to understanding conservatives and libertarians, I realized, wow, there’s a lot of wisdom from all three perspectives: liberal, conservative, and libertarian.”
07 / evaluation
“The new identitarianism reverses that because it’s all about power and oppression.”
08 / evaluation
“Once it becomes left versus right over Obamacare, it doesn’t matter however good your arguments are, I’m not listening.”
09 / evaluation
“I think there are certain kinds that they can understand a little better, but it hasn’t really been studied well enough because everybody’s been focused on care and fairness as morality.”
10 / evaluation
“Many people try to say well all that really matters is care and compassion. But if you take that to its absurd extreme you get kind of close to what we have on campus, which is we will destroy anybody’s rights in order to protect these seven victim classes.”
11 / evaluation
“The most important finding in psychology in the last 50 to 100 years, I would say, is the finding that everything you can measure is heritable.”
12 / evaluation
“Things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights, there are certain things that are predisposed to be moralized, but the genius of human beings is because we’re so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets tabbed as being predictive of what group you belong to or being part of “them.”
13 / evaluation
“They don’t tend to do a lot with group loyalty and hierarchy. They tend to focus more on, “I’ll tell you what, you don’t hurt me, I won’t hurt you.”
14 / evaluation
“In fact they’re much more likely to rise economically than if they’re raised with any sort of family instability. So I think I’m more conservative about family arrangements, precisely because of these second- and third-level effects.”