Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)

Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does
misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are
decisions really made? Dr. Gad Saad has answers and we get to many
of them in this fast-moving discussion. We also discuss his
personal philosophy, religion, and his roles as both an
accomplished academic and a renowned public communicator. Dr. Gad
Saad is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal,
Canada), and former holder of the Concordia University Research
Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption
(2008-2018). He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at
Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of
California–Irvine. Dr. Saad received the Faculty of Commerce’s
Distinguished Teaching Award in June 2000, and was listed as one of
the ‘hot’ professors of Concordia University in both the 2001 and
2002 Maclean’s reports on Canadian universities. Saad was appointed
Newsmaker of the Week of Concordia University in five consecutive
years (2011-2015), and is the co-recipient of the 2015 President’s
Media Outreach Award-Research Communicator of the Year
(International), which goes to the professor at Concordia
University whose research receives the greatest amount of global
media coverage. Subscribe to his YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/GadSaad/ and follow him on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/GadSaad. Professor Saad has pioneered the use
of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. His
works include The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris,
Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (translated
into Korean and Turkish); The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption;
Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, along with 75+
scientific papers, many at the intersection of evolutionary
psychology and a broad range of disciplines including consumer
behavior, marketing, advertising, psychology, medicine, and
economics (Google Scholar). His Psychology Today blog (Homo
Consumericus) and YouTube channel (THE SAAD TRUTH) have garnered
6.4+ million and 19.7+ million total views respectively. He
recently started a podcast titled The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad,
which is available on all leading podcast platforms. In addition to
his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who
often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying
logic, science, reason, and common sense. His fourth book The
Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense was
released on October 6, 2020. Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube
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