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    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

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    Latest Episodes:
    110:Co-dependency, child attachment styles, advice on losing a child Mar 29, 2018
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    Questions for this show are: 1. Strategies for "healing" from an abusive relationship. Do spouses that escape a narcissist spouse need therapy and support on codependency? 2. Are children's attachment styles bogus in predicting their personalities? Also, what's the earliest age at which you can see a person's personality characteristics? 3.What advice would you give to a parent who's lost a child (say 18 years old) under tragic circumstances, such as suicide? Are there any useful techniques or ways of thinking to really help ease the pain of such a profound biological loss?


    109: What can our behavior signal to a romantic partner? Mar 22, 2018
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    Questions for tonight are as follows: A listener's husband spends money on certain displays but not others - what does it mean? How does a 10-year married couple navigate being swingers when one of them no longer wants to do it? Why do some men feel guilty or nervous about Valentine's Day? Why do romantic partners act surprised when their spouse/partner leaves despite threatening to do so for a long time? Why does it feel so devastating when a spouse cheats?


    108: Punishing children, advice to psychology students, cynical from evo psych.. Mar 15, 2018
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    Questions today are about: Influencing children - how does punishment work? Advice to psychology students who want to learn evo psych in a school that teaches conventional psychology Phobias like snakes, heights, etc.. are briefly explored Brief question regarding Big Five personality and how/if those traits can change as we age and gain status. Sharing evolutionary psychology knowledge in social settings. Getting cynical from evolutionary psychology - accepting the tragic view of existence.


    107: Bullying, Job satisfaction, Changing careers Mar 08, 2018
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    Listener questions today are: 1. Pediatrician has overweight child patients that get picked on at school. Asking for advice on what to tell them. 2. Job satisfaction - should people select their job based on their own IQ, conscientiousness, and stability? 3. Stay-at-home mom has finished raising her kids and now wants to do something that makes her feel productive. Her family, on the gravy train because of all that she does for them is giving her push back. She's a little stuck between starting personal projects & disrupting the family balance. We have two callers: Alan - who asks about Dr. Lisle's thought process for diagnosing a problem. And the next caller, Rob, asking about how humans react differently to significant events vs. everyday events that are similar.


    106: Dreams, Meditation, Listener calls in Mar 01, 2018
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    Dreams, Meditation, Listener calls in about a childhood question


    105: Personality traits of 'alpha' males, advice to women dating 'alpha' males Feb 22, 2018
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    A news article sprinkles in evolutionary psychology when explaining why people are purchasing certain electronics. We will review the alpha/beta male dynamics, discuss the typical personality traits of alpha males, and shed some light on what women should consider when dating the 'alpha' male. We also have a listener who calls in asking for advice about a family conflict.


    104: Why Some Families Push You Out and Never Let You Back In | Live Callers Feb 15, 2018
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    Most people assume that if they just explain the situation clearly enough, their parent will finally see what they see. Dr. Lisle says that's the single biggest miscalculation adult children make. Your mother is running a completely different cost-benefit analysis than you are, and the thing you call a crisis she calls a reasonable tradeoff.

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Lisle takes two family dynamics calls that converge on the same evolutionary machinery. Kara calls from Las Vegas about her 70-year-old mother in Singapore, a hoarder sister, and a cluttered flat nobody will fix. Kathy returns to close an open loop on why her mother turned cold after her father died. Dr. Lisle unpacks the egocentric bias, cost-benefit analysis as the top quark of human behavior, Hamilton's rule, the blue-footed booby guano ring, and his concept of fade to black.

    Key question covered: Why doesn't my mother see the problem in her life the way I see it, and what should I do about a parent who clearly doesn't want a close relationship with me?

    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

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


    103: On Air Session: My Family Turned Against Me Feb 08, 2018
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    Kathy has been to five therapists in eight years, and none of them could explain why one fight over skipping Easter Mass turned into a permanent family estrangement. Dr. Lisle says the therapists missed it because they were looking in the wrong place. This was never about Easter, or religion, or one bad weekend. It was a coalition realignment, and the outcome was locked in before Kathy ever walked into that kitchen.

    In this episode, Dr. Lisle walks through the anatomy of a family coalition in real time. He explains why a narcissistic father uses a terminal diagnosis to demand loyalty, why a sister with her hands on her hips at the front door is really a little bird chirping for resources, why a mother becomes Switzerland to survive the alpha, and why your siblings will always follow the money. He also explains the specific reason Kathy cannot stop thinking about this, and it has nothing to do with closure.

    Key question covered: Why does my family keep rejecting me after one disagreement, and why can't I stop thinking about 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


    102: Relationships, Time in Womb, Free Will, Evo Psych of Bad Teeth Feb 01, 2018
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    Relationships, Time in Womb, Free Will, Evo Psych of Bad Teeth


    101: Neoteny, Why do women stay w men who don't love them, Asexuality Jan 25, 2018
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    Neoteny, Why do women stay w men who don't love them, Asexuality


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