Go offline with the Player FM app!
How We Evolved to Be Good (Nicholas Christakis)
Manage episode 517737348 series 2814146
Nicholas Christakis is a Yale sociologist and physician whose research explores how human connection, cooperation, and contagion shape societies. In this episode Amanda and Nicholas explore how our social networks influence everything from kindness to cruelty, and why the impulse to punish, forgive, or imitate spreads just like a virus. How does trust and empathy hold civilization together and why is building stronger relationships the most powerful medicine we have? Nicholas studies how cooperation, love, and trust are encoded in our biology and expressed through social networks that persist beyond any single person, arguing that the “real” structure of human life lies in the invisible web of connections between us.
Reach out to us at www.amandaknox.com or amandaknox.substack.com
X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @amandaknox.com
Free: My Search for Meaning
Waking Up Meditation App https://www.wakingup.com/Amandaknox
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
234 episodes
Manage episode 517737348 series 2814146
Nicholas Christakis is a Yale sociologist and physician whose research explores how human connection, cooperation, and contagion shape societies. In this episode Amanda and Nicholas explore how our social networks influence everything from kindness to cruelty, and why the impulse to punish, forgive, or imitate spreads just like a virus. How does trust and empathy hold civilization together and why is building stronger relationships the most powerful medicine we have? Nicholas studies how cooperation, love, and trust are encoded in our biology and expressed through social networks that persist beyond any single person, arguing that the “real” structure of human life lies in the invisible web of connections between us.
Reach out to us at www.amandaknox.com or amandaknox.substack.com
X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @amandaknox.com
Free: My Search for Meaning
Waking Up Meditation App https://www.wakingup.com/Amandaknox
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
234 episodes
All episodes
×Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.