ANTH 540 Lecture 15: Anth 540 W11 Self-expertise

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Discussion prompt: "are people experts over their own lives"?

think about how this applies to pedagogy, therapeutic encounters, politics, etc.

Should placebo therapeutics be legal?

Worries about transparency

Equality: power dynamics (Sam thought this was impossible)

Against equality: epistemic observations

Not making a moral claim

Equality not an intuitively difficult concept

[Pobsters?] - Not saying dominance is good (amoral): innate mechanisms to track status of

others

By recognizing different status of others we are better able to collaborate

oWe try to make our epistemology fit into the way we want the world to be

Natural prestige

oSuperior (deferential)

oEqual (compete/negotiate)

oSubordinates (delegate/take responsibilities)

Age bias: tendency to attribute certain characteristics to age groups

oNovel situation: age/skill deferral

Reputation bias: related to sexuality/reliability

Signal/symbols: confidence

Status cues

The more symbolic, the more likely to get it wrong

Equality is difficult to handle

Natural hierarchy

Recipe for necessary division of cognitive labor

Familial: differences in relations between paternal/maternal relations

When should we validate people's experience?

superiors

oDemanding our superiors act accordingly

oDemanding total equality & transparency

oWho have we had confusing relationships with? - could we take their place someday

oHow big is the gap btw you and your superior?

Fairness & equality are not the same - conflated

Celebrity cultures: archetypes

Content specificity: hierarchy becomes more evident with feeling - not so much challenged with

clearly quantitative data

Tension between what is and ought to be

People post-hoc act in a certain way

We are better at predicting others than themselves because we are more realistic about the

behavior of others

We are not experts over our own feelings

oBut we attribute emotional cues to physiological arousal

Every 3 seconds of your life ≈ 1 moment, 50K moments in a day

Reinforcement schedule: what do I expect other people to do when I am in pain? - this is how

we establish pain thresholds

Do people know what wellness is?

The is: private lonely solitary experience

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ANTH 540 Lecture 15: Anth 540 W11 Self-expertise

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