Evolution of Self-Deception
Bill and Jordan discuss how self-inflation and irrational self-confidence may have evolved to help us achieve social outcomes that we couldn't get if we were more honest with ourselves. They also talk about how we rationalize our own motives as being pure.In this clip
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637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands
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