Trauma and the Demolition of Faith - Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman (Video)

In this 16 May 2024 video, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with social psychologist and author, Dr. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman. They discuss how most implicit beliefs are consciously unknown to those who hold them; the human reactions to fear, disgust, pain and the destruction of hope; why people blame themselves for truly random events; what the experts get wrong about motivation and the difference between proscriptive and prescriptive morality.

Ronnie Janoff-Bulman is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is a social psychologist and the author of two books and over 90 published papers. Her first book, “Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma,” has been cited over 9,500 times. She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for her research on morality, which serves as the backbone of her recent book, “The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide.” She is the recipient of teaching and mentoring awards and is the former editor of Psychological Inquiry, an international journal devoted to advancing theory in psychology. A mother and grandmother, Dr. Janoff-Bulman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband of over 50 years.

This episode was recorded on 2 May 2024

https://youtu.be/SKVIC52boS8

- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:34) Intro
(2:24) Shattered assumptions and unknown implicit beliefs
(7:12) Anxiety, terror, pain, and the destruction of hope
(10:30) Karl Friston, how anxiety and negative emotion link to entropy control
(16:13) The characterized structure of aim as predicated by values
(18:47) Are neuropsychologists wrong about expectation?
(25:14) Job, the denial of proximal evidence for axioms of faith
(32:00) The religious are better equipped to cope with shattered assumptions
(33:55) Why people blame themselves after truly random negative events
(36:19) The necessity of positive illusion and why Dr. Peterson vehemently disagrees with this notion
(44:23) Why Becker is wrong about motivation
(49:15) Longing for the previous tyranny while in the desert, the proper foundational axiom
(57:09) Tragic randomness and outright malevolence versus naivety
(59:00) Freud and confirmation bias
(1:03:42) The Two Moralities: proscriptive versus prescriptive morality
(1:13:43) How conservatives and liberals see equality, regulation, and possibility
(1:17:19) Individual versus communal responsibility