Gad Saad
Autor de The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Sobre El Autor
Gad Saad, Ph.D., one of the best-known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. A pioneer in the application of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior, he is the author of The mostrar más Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, The Consuming Instinct, and numerous scientific papers and the editor of the book Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. mostrar menos
Obras de Gad Saad
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Educación
- McGill University
Cornell University - Ocupaciones
- professor
- Biografía breve
- Gad Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption (2008–2018) and has a blog at Psychology Today titled Homo Consumericus. Saad was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. His family emigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in October 1975 to escape the Lebanese civil war. He obtained a B.Sc. (Mathematics and Computer Science) and M.B.A. from McGill University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Saad's doctoral adviser was the mathematical/cognitive psychologist and behavioral decision theorist Edward Russo.
Saad has been a professor of marketing at Concordia University since 1994. During this time he has also held visiting professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California Irvine. He is associate editor for the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and an advisory fellow for the Center for Inquiry-Canada.
One line of research that Saad has been exploring is how hormones affect consumers and the decisions they make. Examples of this research include how showy products affect testosterone levels, how testosterone levels affect various forms of risk-taking, and how hormones in the menstrual cycle affect buying decisions. Another line of research has involved gift giving, including how men and women differ in why they give.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad...
Miembros
Reseñas
Gad is originally Lebanese. He speaks Arabic. He's travelled different cultures. He sees the world.
But also: Gad has a wickedly delicious sense of humour.
Thank you Gad for explaining to me the toxic sludge that is emanating from our universities.
I'm starting to understand terms like SJW, Victimology Poker, Munchhausen by proxy and so much more.
But also: Gad has a wickedly delicious sense of humour.
Thank you Gad for explaining to me the toxic sludge that is emanating from our universities.
I'm starting to understand terms like SJW, Victimology Poker, Munchhausen by proxy and so much more.
Gad Saad's twitter persona is better than his book. What makes the book somewhat interesting? His personal history, which provides a good motivation for his choosing to take such a public stance. I tend not to be won over by shallow takes on evolutionary psychology; they simply don't convince me. Shouldn't the title be "The Parasitized Mind", though?
Good quotation from Isaac Newton's Principia: We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Saad's own words:
The problem with those who succumb to the Six Degrees of Faux-Causaility trap is that they generate long sequences of illusory causal pathways. This can be necessary if you spout progressive platitudes that are manifestly untrue.… (más)
Good quotation from Isaac Newton's Principia: We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Saad's own words:
The problem with those who succumb to the Six Degrees of Faux-Causaility trap is that they generate long sequences of illusory causal pathways. This can be necessary if you spout progressive platitudes that are manifestly untrue.… (más)
Listas
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 399
- Popularidad
- #60,805
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 28
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 1
While I do not agree with everything Saad says, the basic premise is very much true. If you are concerned by the epidemic lack of critical thinking, the freedom of thought and the future of institutionalized learning this book is worth reading.… (más)