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The Lucas Bean Show
Sharing insights on psychology, History, human behavior, politics, new technology and business | Author, Scientist, Podcast Host | I make videos & I try to tell good stories.
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The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Doesn’t Blame Trump. They Blame You - Featured On The Dangerous Ones
MAGA Doesn’t Blame Trump. They Blame You. Two psychological mechanisms that explain why Trump supporters redirect all accountability outward and why they will…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Cult is a Mental Illness
There is a word that gets used carefully in psychiatry. Delusion. Not as an insult. Not as a metaphor. As a clinical term with a specific meaning. A fixed…
The Lucas Bean ShowTrump Supporters Have Rage and Think It's Righteousness
There is something you notice if you watch MAGA long enough. The anger never stops. It does not matter what the issue is. Immigration. Elections. Schools. Drag…
The Lucas Bean ShowLiberals are Happier Than Conservatives
For over a decade, one finding has come up again and again in American political psychology research. Conservatives report being happier than liberals. They…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy MAGA Losers Loved Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk was never the smartest person in the room. He was just the loudest. And for a very specific group of people across this country, that was enough…
The Lucas Bean ShowTrapped In The Right-Wing Information Bubble
The Right-Wing Information Bubble Is Not an Accident. It Is a Business Model. Six layers of psychological manipulation keeping Trump supporters locked in a…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Isn’t A Political Movement. It’s A Personality Disorder.
There is a word that does not have a direct English translation. The French kept it in the original because no single English word captures what it means. The…
The Lucas Bean Show30 Day MAGA Media Detox
If Someone Sent You This, They Are Worried About You That is not an insult. Someone who cares about you read something and thought of you. Not to start a…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Trump Supporters Are Always Angry
There is something you notice if you spend any time around MAGA supporters. They are always angry. Not just politically frustrated. Not just disappointed…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Trump Can't Keep Obama’s Name Out of His Mouth
Trump cannot give a single speech without saying Obama’s name. Not one. Think about what that means. He is the President of the United States. The most…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhat Happens When You Force Conservatives to Watch Real News
In the fall of 2020, two political scientists did something that sounds simple and turned out to be one of the most unsettling media experiments in recent…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Does the Right Seem So Stupid?
This is not a rhetorical question. It has a scientific answer. And once you understand it, a lot of things that have seemed baffling about American politics…
The Lucas Bean ShowThe Nazis Were Not Socialists
Nazis Were Not Socialists. Conservatives Know It. That Is Why They Keep Saying It. There is a claim that surfaces every time someone draws a comparison between…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy MAGA Believes Memes Over Facts
There is something important happening inside the brain of every person who shares a meme with completely fabricated statistics and believes it without…
The Lucas Bean ShowFaux News is Making You Dumber
Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio. His father worked the line at a Packard plant, wiring cars for GM, taking orders from managers he resented. Men with…
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#118 - System Justification
Why do poor conservatives keep voting against their own interests? The answer is not ignorance and it is not stupidity. It is a psychological mechanism Yale…
The Lucas Bean ShowHow Propaganda Actually Works on Your Brain
Most people think propaganda is something that happens somewhere else. To less educated people. To people in authoritarian countries without free press or…
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#117 - How Propaganda Works
Propaganda is not guesswork. It is a science that has been refined for nearly a hundred years, and the people using it right now know exactly what they are…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy The Right Is Afraid of Everything
This is not opinion. This is not punditry. This is peer reviewed neuroscience published in Current Biology, replicated across multiple independent studies in…
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#116 - How to Get Someone Out of A Cult
How to get someone out of a cult. Arguing, fact-checking, and cutting them off all make it worse. Psychologist Steven Hassan studied cult recovery for forty…
The Lucas Bean ShowTrump Cult Blames You For Trump
There is a pattern so consistent it stops being coincidental. Gas prices went up. They blamed Biden. Tariffs started killing small businesses. They blamed the…
The Lucas Bean ShowRight Wing Baby Boomers Destroyed America
There is a research trail behind this. And it goes back fifty years. This is not about every Boomer. The greatest activists, organizers, and truth tellers of…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Conservatives are Obsessed with Pride Month
Every June the same thing happens. Pride Month arrives and the American right loses its mind. The flags go up. The parades get organized. Companies change…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Conservative Men Cannot Spell
Why Conservative Men Who Hate Education Cannot Spell There is a pattern so consistent it has stopped being funny. The men screaming loudest about how useless…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Cult Attracts Avoidant People
There is a pattern in the faces at Trump rallies that most political analysts never talk about. Not the anger. The anger is obvious. The anger is the whole…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Cult Blames You For Trump
There is a pattern so consistent it stops being coincidental. Gas prices went up. They blamed Biden. Tariffs started killing small businesses. They blamed the…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Trump Is Obsessed With Barack Obama
There is a question that has been sitting in the middle of American politics for twenty years and nobody has answered it honestly. Why can’t Trump stop talking…
The Lucas Bean ShowMany Trump Supporters Are Not Evil. That Is the Problem.
There is a conversation happening on the left that needs to stop. It goes like this. Someone tries to explain Trump supporters. They say they are not all bad…
The Lucas Bean ShowWe Keep Platforming People Who Are Destroying Democracy
There is a moment you have seen a thousand times and probably never named. A news anchor introduces two guests. On one side, a scientist with thirty years of…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Just Admitted They Are Weak
A polling organization asked a simple question recently and the results broke the internet. Could you beat Donald Trump in a fight? It sounds like a joke. It…
The Lucas Bean ShowSchadenfreude: Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer
Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer There is a scientific reason for that. And once you understand it, you will never be able to unsee it. Where the…
The Lucas Bean ShowKayFabe: Why MAGA Doesn’t Care That Trump Is Lying
This one took me a while to fully understand. For years I kept trying to explain Trump supporters the same way everyone else does. They are misinformed. They…
The Lucas Bean ShowThe President Has Narcissist Collapse on Live TV
It happened on a farm in Wisconsin, in the rain, on a Sunday morning. Kristen Welker had traveled all the way from New York to sit down with the President of…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Conservative Men Are Terrified of Educated Women
Start with a scene most people recognize. A woman mentions her graduate degree at a dinner party, or corrects a statistic in a meeting, or simply holds her…
The Lucas Bean ShowWho Joins MAGA Cult? The Cult of Narcissists - Trump Cult
The Psychology Behind Why Trump Supporters Will Never Admit They Were Wrong There is a question that keeps coming up in my research, and I suspect it keeps…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Trump Supporters Reject Facts That Hurt Their Feelings
You have probably tried it before. You show a Trump supporter data. Real data. Peer reviewed. From credible sources. Proving that something they believe is…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Trump Has Never Been Held Accountable For What He Says
There is a trick so simple and so effective that it has worked on every institution in American life. The media. The courts. Congress. The public. All of them…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy You Are Immune to Trump Cult
There are four psychological reasons. You probably have at least one of them. I have been trying to understand this for years. Why can I see so clearly what…
The Lucas Bean ShowTrump Cult Cries Like Children When They Hear the Truth
If you have ever tried to show a Trump supporter a fact and watched them get angrier instead of more informed you already know something is deeply wrong. You…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhen Joy Reid Shares Your Video
Just a quick Sunday Thank You. I really hope your Sunday is going well and you are enjoying this warm weather. I am honored that you watch my videos and read…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Arguing with a Trump Supporter feels like arguing with a child
You’ve been in this argument. Maybe at Thanksgiving. Maybe in a comment thread. Maybe with someone you used to respect. You bring the facts. They scream fake…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Some People Have No Empathy.
If you have normal human empathy, watching what is happening in the United States right now is exhausting in a way that is difficult to explain to people who…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Beta Males Are Almost Always Conservatives
They talk about alpha males constantly. They post about dominance and strength and masculinity every single day. They mock men who show emotion. They mock men…
The Lucas Bean ShowSmart Men Are Almost Never Conservative
There is a pattern that shows up across decades of political psychology research that nobody in mainstream media wants to talk about directly. The smarter a…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy The Right Says the Party Switch Never Happened
They will tell you the Republicans freed the slaves. They will tell you the Democrats founded the hood and burning cross crowd. They will tell you the parties…
The Lucas Bean ShowTrump Supporters Aren't Looking for Evidence. They Look for Your Guilt.
Philip Tetlock, psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, studied what happens when people feel their God, their country, and their leader are under…
The Lucas Bean ShowNo Child Ever Grows Up In The Same Home
WHY YOU AND YOUR SIBLING SEE THE WORLD COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY You and your sibling grew up in the same house. Same parents. Same dinner table. Same rules. So…
The Lucas Bean ShowThe Man Who Made Trump
Most people have never heard of Roy Cohn. That is by design. Roy Cohn spent his entire career making sure that the most important things about him never made…
The Lucas Bean Show6 Tactics Cults Use To Keep Followers Hooked
Jones Town vs. MAGA Cult: The Similarities are Undeniable Most people think Jonestown was a one time event. A singular madman. A tragedy that could never…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Conservatives Worship Trump Like A Father
There is a psychological reason why grown adults call Donald Trump “daddy.” It is not a joke. It is not irony. It is not a meme. It is a clinical diagnosis…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy The Most Anti-Gay Conservatives Are Often Gay Themselves
There is a psychological reason why the men who scream loudest about homosexuality keep getting caught in airport bathrooms. It is not hypocrisy. It is not…
The Lucas Bean ShowTucker Carlson Marked Potential Domestic Terrorist
Most people assume that if you are loyal enough to Trump you are safe. They are wrong. Tucker Carlson assumed that. He campaigned for Trump. He wrote speeches…
The Lucas Bean ShowI've Had It Interview with Jennifer Welch
This only happened because of you. You watching my videos and reading my substack made this interview happen so thank you. I very much appreciate you. I Was on…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy the Right Is Obsessed With Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci spent 54 years saving lives. He advised six presidents. He helped lead the fight against the AIDS crisis. He was awarded the Presidential Medal…
The Lucas Bean ShowMAGA Came For The Cruelty
Trump supporters don’t just tolerate the cruelty. They show up for it. This is not a political observation. It is not a talking point. It is a documented…
The Lucas Bean ShowThey Just Criminalized Being Anti-Fascist
The United States government just published its official counterterrorism strategy. Read that sentence again. Not a tweet. Not a rally speech. Not a Truth…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy the Right Is Easy to Fool
Why the Right Cannot Tell the Difference Between Facts and Lies There is a reason conservatives believe in things that are not true. It is not just…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy Debating Non-Facts is Bad
You want to debate me? You can’t spell the subjects you’re wrong about. You don’t even know the names of the scientists you’re dismissing. You’ve never read…
The Lucas Bean ShowWhy The MAGA Cult Lose Their Mind If You Criticize Trump
WHY TRUMP SUPPORTERS LOSE THEIR MIND WHEN YOU CRITICIZE HIM You ever notice how the second you criticize Trump his supporters don’t just disagree with you…
The Lucas Bean Show5 Dark Psychological Events That Made Donald Trump
HOW DONALD TRUMP’S FATHER BROKE HIM Most people look at Donald Trump and see a political figure. A controversial president. A convicted felon. A man who…