{"podcast":{"title":"Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)","slug":"evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019","podcast_index_feed_id":7343019,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/epthepod/feed.xml","website_url":"https://epthepod.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/20648489/EPlogonoframeedited_size_pngb3lqz.png","author":"Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof","episode_count":59,"summary":"Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. Every week, Dave and David bring cutting-edge work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences to you. patreon.com/epthepod","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T02:19:17.158525+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019"},"episode":{"title":"The Behavioral Immune System with Josh Tybur","slug":"the-behavioral-immune-system-with-josh-tybur","published_at":"2026-02-03T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/the-behavioral-immune-system-with-josh-tybur","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019","url":"https://epthepod.podbean.com/e/josh-tybur/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jux4k5xckw2vrip6/Josh_Tybur79f25.mp3","summary":"It stinks to be sick. Our guest, Josh Tybur (VU Amsterdam), is the one of the foremost experts on how our brain--or better yet, our \"behavioral immune system\"--helps us avoid pathogens while still navigating the necessities of social and physical life: eating, hugging, parenting, mating, and so on. Topics include whether pathogen avoidance actually drives attitudes towards social outgroups, how disgust, sex, and morality all interact (including David's pet theory of kinky sexual practices), and whether evolutionary mismatch is over-used and under-specified (or not). Oh, that whole world-wide pandemic thing. More about Josh Tybur: https://www.joshtybur.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ash8oRMAAAAJ&hl=en","meta_description":"It stinks to be sick. Our guest, Josh Tybur (VU Amsterdam), is the one of the foremost experts on how our brain--or better yet, our \"behavioral immune sys…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8278,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/episodes/the-behavioral-immune-system-with-josh-tybur/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/evolutionary-psychology-the-podcast-7343019/the-behavioral-immune-system-with-josh-tybur.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}