Oxytocin

Why do we trust people and what makes them trust us? Is it a magical process of magicness or a flow of chemicals we can control once we understand it? After a long hiatus, Sam and Simon decided to have another conversation on the internet about the things that make us trust and how to work with or against them…

Stuff mentioned in this episode:

• The Moral Molecule: the new science of what makes us good or evil by Paul J Zak
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The elephant and the rider thing, part of the Happiness Hypothesis
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Crash Course  by John Greene
• Slate’s Working podcast.