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Doug Kenrick

Doug Kenrick

President's Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University; evolutionary psychologist specializing in social cognition and behavioral science

Jul 2, 2026

38:23
And another ASU professor, Doug Kenrick, points to something we mentioned in episode two about Bob's facility in social situations.
38:32
I think he's, he's got tremendously high social intelligence that, that he sees things going on in social interactions that other people don't see.
38:48
Uh, and so, you know, that, I think that social intelligence is probably his biggest superpower.
38:55
Hard work is, uh, is just about a tie for that.
38:59
You know, it's like, um ...
39:02
But what's funny with Cialdini, so I was telling my graduate students recently that there's a kind of a yin and yang between work and fun, and you sometimes hear people say, "Oh, well, I don't wanna work all the time.
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I wanna have fun." If you're working properly, if you're really working hard and doing something you enjoy, that is fun.

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