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Where Do Your Morals Actually Come From? Dr. Melvyn Lurie on the Psychology and Genetics Behind Your Moral Compass
Most people inherit their sense of right and wrong without ever examining where it came from. Dr. Melvyn Lurie has spent years studying exactly that question, and what he has found sits at a genuinely surprising intersection of genetics, psychology, and human development. He joins Stacey Chillemi to explore the origins of morality, why some moral instincts appear to be hardwired into us from birth while others are shaped by the rules, relationships, and cultures we grow up inside, and what the eternal tension between good and evil actually reveals about the architecture of the human mind…
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