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Jordan Peterson

(1962–) · Canadian Psychologist

Jordan Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian-American psychologist and author. He is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto and has written several books on psychology, philosophy, and culture.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.
It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.