In this episode I talk with my cousin Jordyn about two fascinating subjects: Psychopathy and racial bias (the later subject being the one she just did her thesis defense of her degree on). We discuss why we as a society are so fascinated by Psychopathy and some of the major misnomers many people have about the disorder (including myself as we discovered). We also discuss moral reasoning and how Psychopaths are anomalies in this area. In perhaps the most interesting portion of the episode, we go over the data that will help us understand why her study found that people were actually more likely to give harsher sentences to hypothetical white subjects than to hypothetical black and indigenous subjects in a prison sentencing survey (which is the opposite to what they expected to find going into the study and the opposite to what I would have expected based off of my understanding of the world). The awesome part about science is that it allows us to dissociate from our emotions and look at the data to better understand ourselves and the complex world we operate in. Incidentally, this unemotional, calculating approach is one that Psychopaths - who are overrepresented as not only criminals but also in populations like Surgeons and CEOs - are particularly good at. I really hope that you enjoy this episode and learn something while you watch!