Epstein Secrets

by how easily people follow charismatic leaders, even toxic ones; and in much social commentary, consider Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky as an example. "In Vigilance, I argue that they are wrong." HUGO MERCIER is a cognitive scientist working for the French National Center for Scient

r Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky as an example. "In Vigilance, I argue that they

motion, we can’t help but mimic it. No surprise then that crowds and their emotional members drive each other mad! Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich, proponents of the dominant mode of cultural evolution, postulate that people are easily influenced by prestigious individuals —wherever their presti

uthor, Sausalito, CA David Buss, Psychologist, U. of Texas, Austin Sean Carroll, Physicist, CalTech David Chalmers, Philosopher, New York University Noam Chomsky, Linguist, MIT Nicholas A. Christakis, Physician & Sociologist, Yale David Christian, Historian, Macquarie University George Church, Geneticist, Har

Chalmers, Philosopher, New York University Noam Chomsky, Linguist, MIT Nicholas A. Christakis, Physician

t Grafton, Neurologist, UC Santa Barbara Alan Guth, Physicist, MIT Jonathan Haidt, Psychologist, Stern School, NYU Sam Harris, Neuroscientist, UCLA Joseph Henrich, Canada Research Chair, Culture, Cognition and =oevolution, UBC Cesar Hidalgo, Physicist, Macro Connections Group, MIT Media Lab W. Daniel Hillis, M

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he biologist Peter Marler famously spoke of singing in birds as an instinct to learn, while the evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker described the Chomskyan insight into language as the /anguage instinct. A bird’s instinct to learn does not mean that there is a one- to-one, inflexible mapping between gene

ing the hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers of Africa, Asia, and South America, should respond to unfair exchanges. The American anthropologist Joseph Henrich and his colleagues presented a set of bargaining games to adults living in different small-scale societies across the globe. Though the subjects in t