jonathan gottschall
@jonathangottsch
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Distinguished Fellow at Washington & Jefferson College. Author of The Storytelling Animal, The Professor in the Cage, and The Story Paradox
Washington, PA
Joined October 2013
Looking forward to reading Adam Szetela's brave investigation of stifling ideological conformity and censorship in mainstream publishing. Long overdue. https://t.co/orRNemRC4T
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In , Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Although progressives are...
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My 2025 TED talk: The hidden logic of human harmony (Steven Pinker | TED2025) https://t.co/IQFA7jPkPO via @TEDTalks
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Common knowledge is the secret engine of social life, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups to markets to international diplomacy. In this fascinating talk, experimental cognitive scientist...
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Available for preorder: My new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" https://t.co/gqpqOJPTK4
#Amazon via @Amazon
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Common knowledge is necessary for , for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It’s also...
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I just turned in the page proofs of my next book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Likely US pub date: Sept 23 (possibly earlier). Jacket image is a draft.
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I recommend @jonathangottsch’s book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human in every @businessofstory mastery course I provide https://t.co/NAdtHLeOnP. Now I’m enjoying his 2021 book, The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies And Tears Them Down.
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#464: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human One of my favorite books that I introduce in every one of my Business of Story mastery courses is Jonathan Gottschall’s,…
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This article by @brianklaas on MAGA conspiracy theories is the best succinct encapsulation of the psychology of conspiracism I can remember reading.
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Bridge collapse, earthquake, eclipse—surely the heavens and the Biden administration are up to something.
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Great overview of FLUKE by @brianklaas
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Podcast Episode · EconTalk · 01/22/2024 · 1h
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my jacket blurb for @brianklaas's fast read FLUKE: "Fluke is the intellectual equivalent of a slap across the face.... Klaas’s beautifully written application of chaos theory to human experience won’t just shift your paradigm, it’ll detonate it." https://t.co/aIIOYfYpNH
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What chaos theory has to teach us about human events
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Steven Pinker's five-point plan to save Harvard from itself (now out from behind the paywall). https://t.co/1BWvfto4fy via @BostonGlobe
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For universities to have a leg to stand on when they try to stand on principle, they must embark on a long-term plan to undo the damage they have inflicted on themselves. This includes Harvard.
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What can Inuit childrearing practices teach us about censoring books in schools? My latest in Skeptic. https://t.co/jDn60qKMTo
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“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History.” Long-form interview on war, ideas as causes, AI, effective altruism, global institutions, Chomsky, Fukuyama, & ennui at the end of history.
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An interview with Steven Pinker.
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My first thoughts on AI alignment, in the @NewYorker. https://t.co/Eb92zBMz8j
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A year after OpenAI released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values. It may be as ethical as it’s going to get.
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Excited to be in conversation with the brilliant @nytdavidbrooks on Monday, talking about his fantastic new book How to Know a Person, on behalf of the @howtoacademy Tickets start from just a tenner 19:30pm Available here: https://t.co/nRDZBQBxhs
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Congrats Dennis!! A plumb pub. Looking forward to reading.
Been reading Skeptic for 25 years. Picked up my first issue right after reading Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World." So cool to see my name on the contents page. Thank you @michaelshermer
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"From cradle to grave, we are works in progress." - The Brain: The Story of You. https://t.co/0AxEGnhQja
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Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the...
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Yet more greatness from Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific
https://t.co/Q216tORKzT
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Teach boys that strength can be a virtue.
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BOOK COVER REVEAL "In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of 'luxury beliefs'—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class
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