TopPodcast.com
Menu
  • Home
  • Top Charts
  • Top Networks
  • Top Apps
  • Top Independents
  • Top Podfluencers
  • Top Picks
    • Top Business Podcasts
    • Top True Crime Podcasts
    • Top Finance Podcasts
    • Top Comedy Podcasts
    • Top Music Podcasts
    • Top Womens Podcasts
    • Top Kids Podcasts
    • Top Sports Podcasts
    • Top News Podcasts
    • Top Tech Podcasts
    • Top Crypto Podcasts
    • Top Entrepreneurial Podcasts
    • Top Fantasy Sports Podcasts
    • Top Political Podcasts
    • Top Science Podcasts
    • Top Self Help Podcasts
    • Top Sports Betting Podcasts
    • Top Stocks Podcasts
  • Podcast News
  • About Us
  • Podcast Advertising
  • Contact
Not in our directory?
Add Show Here
Podcast Equipment
Center

toppodcastlogoOur TOPPODCAST Picks

  • Comedy
  • Crypto
  • Sports
  • News
  • Politics
  • True Crime
  • Business
  • Finance

Follow Us

toppodcastlogoStay Connected

    View Top 200 Chart
    Back to Rankings Page
    Health

    Beat Your Genes Podcast

    Evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Nathan Gershfeld, D.C.

    Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren’t broken. They’re just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists.

    Dr. Lisle – Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap – has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up.

    Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. – trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker’s curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.

    Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones.

    380+ episodes. New episodes every other week.

    New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here

    Advertise

    Copyright: © BeatYourGenes.org. All Rights Reserved.

    • Apple Podcasts
    • Google Play
    • Spotify

    Latest Episodes:
    120: A novel approach to cravings for junk, Personality differences & dislikes Jun 07, 2018
    Show notes

    Dr. Lisle discusses a novel approach to cravings. Are we prone to dislike certain people with personality traits opposite from ours? Do we select friends subconsciously based on status like we do with mates?


    119: How does our personality change? With circumstance? With age? May 31, 2018
    Show notes

    How does our personality change? With circumstance? With age?


    118: Hamilton's Rule, Altruism, Kin selection May 24, 2018
    Show notes

    Hamilton's Rule, Altruism, Kin selection


    117: Cost/benefit of displays, directing esteem cues, evo psych of economics, internet trolls, and May 17, 2018
    Show notes

    Q1: What makes certain people do more for others than they would for themselves? Q2: What's the scoop on altruism? Q3: What's wrong with socialism? Q4: Why do internet trolls say mean/harsh thing online? One caller has a question about her special needs son. Second caller has a question about identity politics in 2018.


    116: Beauty standards for women, Prostitution, and Emotional Intelligence May 10, 2018
    Show notes

    An instagram model recently stopped shaving her armpits and wearing makeup as a sort of protest against the "societal programming" of beauty standards. What does Dr. Lisle think about this? What's the Doug Download on Prostitution? Is emotional intelligence a thing?


    115: Depression, Psychedelics May 03, 2018
    Show notes

    Depression, Psychedelics


    114: Evo Psych in academia, advertising, music Apr 26, 2018
    Show notes

    Evo Psych in academia, advertising, music, and leadership


    113: Why Good Men Hesitate: Fear of Commitment, Pinball Personalities, and Parametric Dating | Live Callers Apr 19, 2018
    Show notes

    Most people treat fear of commitment like a character flaw to be worked through in therapy. Dr. Lisle says the opposite. A healthy fear of commitment is not weakness or immaturity, it is a perfectly sensible response to what he calls a 25 to life sentence. Any male in his right mind would pause before signing up for that.

    In this live caller episode, Dr. Doug Lisle breaks down the actual evolutionary math behind male hesitation, why a screaming deal on looks does not close the deal on commitment, and the four real variables the male brain is weighing. He then takes three live callers: a high school teacher asking why 15-year-old boys are so captured by video games, a competitive pinball player puzzled by his teammates' dread of having kids, and a newly divorced mother trying to date for fun without letting her genes take over. The frameworks that come up include the Pleasure Trap, the Stone Age Brain, conscientiousness as a commitment variable, and what Dr. Lisle calls parametric research in the dating market.

    Key question covered: Why do men have a fear of commitment even when the woman seems like a great deal, and what is the evolutionary psychology behind it?

    Beat Your Genes is co-hosted by evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, DC.

    New episodes every other week.

    YouTube: youtube.com/@BeatYourGenes

    beatyourgenes.org

    Doug Lisle: esteemdynamics.com

    Nathan Gershfeld: fastingescape.com

    X: @BeatYourGenes

    Intro and outro: City of Happy Ones. Ferenc Hegedus. Licensed for use. Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast


    112: Intervention overconfidence, Caller question, Alcoholism, Evo Psych in academia, advertising, Apr 12, 2018
    Show notes

    Questions today: 1) Listener has a friend who is an alcoholic. What can be done as a friend? 2) Why can some people drink heavily and not become addicted to alcohol? 3) Is it worth being an evolutionary psychologist in academia? 4) How does advertising & media influence people? 5) Why do people love music?


    111: Evolution of language, Emotional first-aid, helping a friend Apr 05, 2018
    Show notes

    Evolution of language, Emotional first-aid, helping a friend


    Previous 1 28 29 30 31 32 41 Next

    Related Podcasts

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    1

    The Joe Rogan Experience Comedy
    Casefile True Crime

    2

    Casefile True Crime Games & Hobbies
    Reply All

    3

    Reply All Games & Hobbies
    Good Life Project

    4

    Good Life Project Education
    Happier with Gretchen Rubin

    5

    Happier with Gretchen Rubin Health
    The Other F Word: Conversations About Failure

    6

    The Other F Word: Conversations About Failure Health
    footer-logo

    Contact Us

    Toll Free: 844-670-7747

    Links

    • Home
    • Top Charts
    • Networks
    • Apps
    • Independents Podcasts
    • Podcast Advertising
    • Podcast News
    • Contact Us
    • About Us
    • Analytics & Insights

    Stay Connected

      Privacy, Terms of Use & Our Code of Ethics Protecting Content Creators Copyrights