Dr. Evil (Cathryn van Kessel) on Terror Management Theory

Listen in as Jeff sits down with Dr. Cathryn van Kessel and together they conceptualize good and evil and societal ideas surrounding death and the impacts on one's life.

In this episode Dr. van Kessel discusses how as humans we have a natural biological response to death and that we want to feel stable and permanent and don’t want to die. She introduces listeners to the fascinating concepts that make up Terror Management Theory and how it illustrates how a direct reminder of death makes humans do weird and quirky (but fairly predictable) things.