Psychology on the Joe Rogan Experience

“They did an experiment Back in I think it was the 60s They did something called teaching machines. Have you ever seen that?”

Dr. Phil describes a 1960s educational experiment called 'teaching machines' that removed failure experiences entirely, claiming the program was scrapped after students who mastered the material with 100% success rates fell apart when returned to normal classrooms.

“I firmly believe there's more sociopaths than we really think. I really do. I think if you look at the general consensus as something like, what is it? One out…”

It is claimed the commonly cited rate of sociopathy is about one in a hundred people, but the true rate is likely much higher (later suggested as 10%).

“well okay to go back to your point about porn addiction number one there's no evidence for pornography addiction in that i need to introduce you to”

Soh asserts there is no evidence that pornography addiction exists.

“Now there was a study out of Massachusetts, I think, which I quote in the book. I think 2,000 women were followed over 10 years. Those who were happily married…”

Maté claims a Massachusetts study followed 2,000 women over 10 years and found those who were happily married but suppressed their emotions were four times as likely to die as those who expressed their feelings.

“we are giving people quizzes and then we are giving people recommendations and then we are measuring to see whether we can change anyone's mind. And we're gett…”

Epstein claims his lab experiments show biased search rankings can shift people's opinions/votes by 70-90% with zero detection by subjects.

“10% of men are as feminine in their personality as the average woman is. And vice versa, 10% of women are as masculine in their personality as the average man …”

Peterson claims that exactly 10% of men have personality traits as feminine as the average woman, and vice versa for women.

“the most reliable difference that psychologists have ever found between men and women, the biggest difference, is interest. So women are reliably more interest…”

Peterson claims that the largest and most reliable psychological sex difference ever documented is a 'people vs. things' interest difference, at about one standard deviation.

“70% of people, if you sum their scores across all 13 domains, scored zero”

Peterson claims his Creative Achievement Questionnaire research found that 70% of people score zero across all 13 measured creative domains, meaning most people are not creative at all.

“the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s. And that was a consequence of women going into the workforce en masse, leaving thei…”

Peterson claims the 1980s satanic ritual abuse daycare panic was caused by mothers entering the workforce and developing pathological, sometimes borderline-schizophrenic fantasies about strangers caring for their children.

“Ted Kaczynski was right. This is something that I think about sometimes when I get really high, that Ted Kaczynski was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.”

Rogan claims Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was a subject in Harvard's LSD studies (the Murray psychological experiments) while a student there.

“our research indicated, research on political correctness indicated that this trait agreeableness is a good predictor of holding politically correct views, and…”

Peterson claims his research found that trait agreeableness and being female are good predictors of holding politically correct views.

“You know, you hear, television makes people stupider. It's like, no, it makes smart people who could have been even smarter if they would have read Shakespeare…”

Peterson claims television only makes already-smart people relatively 'stupider' than they would have been otherwise, while being a net positive for severely deprived, unattended children, implying no downside from passive screen exposure for disadvantaged kids.

“one of the things that's happened over the last century is the mean IQ has gone up seven points per generation, which is a lot, like it's really a lot. So 15 p…”

Peterson claims average IQ has risen seven points per generation (every 15 years) over the last century, and that this equals half the gap between a high school and college graduate.

“in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population and they went barking mad. And they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is m…”

Malone attributes German society's turn toward Nazism in the 1920s-30s to "mass formation psychosis," a concept he credits to psychologist Matthias Desmet, and draws a direct parallel to COVID-era public compliance.

“there's no evidence that there's any relationship between intelligence and morality.”

Peterson asserts there is no evidence linking intelligence to morality.

“there's no evidence, by the way, that that works at all. In fact, the evidence that there is suggests quite the contrary.”

Peterson claims mandatory unconscious bias training has no evidence of effectiveness and that existing evidence suggests it backfires.