Did Psychology Change Human Thinking? | Dr Gregg Henriques [BEST MEDICINE PODCAST]

Gregg Henriques returns to discuss the enlightenment gap, the unified theory of knowledge, and how the field of psychology has altered human thinking.

🌎 ABOUT DR GREGG HENRIQUES : 👩‍💻

Gregg Henriques is a James Madison university psychology professor, founder of the Theory of Knowledge Society, and podcaster.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

[02:03] - Closing The Enlightenment Gap
[08:25] - Using Ecological Psychology to understand increasing layers of complexity through the Tree of Knowledge
[15:01] - The History of Gender Roles in America
[25:04] - How finding “foundational agreement” will lead to “Adaptive Action”
[32:00] - How Social Media increases tribalization and polarization by interfering with optimal sensemaking processes
[40:56] - “Is vs Ought” - switching from scientific observation to problem solving
[51:01] - How fundamentally left and right leaning people can agree on the deepest sources of truth, and why that’s more productive than worrying about politics at first
[56:05] - Finding first principles of stability at all levels of complexity
[01:02:20] - How to make empirical moral evaluations in the inter-personal and social spaces that are scientifically grounded
[01:06:00] - How the field of Psychology and the social sciences have created a “double hermeneutic” feedback loop - AKA why social science changes human consciousness

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- Theory of Knowledge Society: www.TOKSociety.org/
- Previous Best Medicine Podcast Episodes:
- https://www.bradleywerrell.com/podcast-library/a-new-theory-of-knowledge-dr-gregg-henriques
- https://www.bradleywerrell.com/podcast-library/how-to-deal-with-the-chaos-of-paradigm-shifts-dr-gregg-henriques
- https://www.bradleywerrell.com/podcast-library/academic-bravery-and-the-epistemology-of-political-division-dr-gregg-henriques
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx
- Website: gregghenriques.com/
- The periodic table of behavior and a brief overview of the Tree of Knowledge: https://www.psychology..