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Brock Bastian is a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne whose research focuses on pain, happiness, and morality. \\xa0

In this conversation, we talk about Brock's work on how and why pain is meaningful. We talk about Brock's work on pain and cooperation, reproducibility in social psychology, his books The Other Side of Happiness, the value of doing shit jobs, Brave New World, and much more. \\xa0

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. New conversations every other Friday. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). \\xa0

Timestamps \\xa0
0:00:05: Pain and cooperation \\xa0
0:18:22: When is a paper ready? \\xa0
0:22:37: Reproducibility: when can you trust a paper? \\xa0
0:28:44: Discussing the making of Brock's book The Other Side of Happiness \\xa0
0:42:39: When should something be easy and when is it good for something to be difficult? \\xa0
0:52:59: Brock's dog adds a valuable comment \\xa0
0:54:01: The value of doing shit jobs \\xa0
0:57:23: What's dystopian about Huxley's Brave New World? \\xa0
1:03:23: Is something like Soma possible and would people use it? \\xa0


Podcast links \\xa0

• Website: https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/ \\xa0
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BjksPodcast \\xa0

Brock's links \\xa0

• Website: http://www.brockbastian.com/ \\xa0
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=WudErsQAAAAJ \\xa0
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/drbrockbastian/ \\xa0

Ben's links \\xa0

• Website: www.bjks.blog/ \\xa0
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-nWNfvcAAAAJ \\xa0
• \\xa0Twitter:\\xa0 https://twitter.com/bjks_tweets \\xa0

References\\xa0
\\xa0Bastian, B. (2018). The other side of happiness: Embracing a more fearless approach to living. Penguin UK.\\xa0 \\xa0
Brock's debate with David Pearce: https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/b5578a55839c4218a03c2a43e83f4076\\xa0
Bastian, B., Jetten, J., & Ferris, L. J. (2014). Pain as social glue: Shared pain increases cooperation. Psychological Science.\\xa0
Bastian, B., Jetten, J., Thai, H. A., & Steffens, N. K. (2018). Shared adversity increases team creativity through fostering supportive interaction. Frontiers in Psychology.\\xa0
Huxley, A. (1932). Brave New World.\\xa0
Leknes, S., & Bastian, B. (2014). The benefits of pain. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.\\xa0
Wiltermuth, S. S., & Heath, C. (2009). Synchrony and cooperation. Psychological Science.\\xa0
Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P., Fischer, R., Reddish, P., Skewes, J., Geertz, A. W., ... & Bulbulia, J. (2013). Extreme rituals promote prosociality. Psychological Science. \\xa0