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Mar 2024
1h 42m

429. The Psychology of Social Status and...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
About this episode

Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks with best-selling author, Air Force veteran, and psychologist Rob Henderson. They discuss his recent memoir “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class” and go through Rob’s tumultuous upbringing within the California foster care system, the lived and observed transformations of social status and class as he ascended to Yale and Cambridge, how his thoughts on family structure and “luxury beliefs” developed, and why bookstores won’t host him for his tour.

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and in the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at the age of seventeen. Following his enlistment, he attended Yale on the G.I. Bill and was subsequently awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in psychology in 2022. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Quillette, among other outlets, and his Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than 50,000 subscribers.

 

This episode was recorded on February 25th, 2024

 

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2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events  

 

Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/  

 

 

For Rob Henderson:

 

“Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class” (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Memoir-Foster-Family-Social/dp/1982168536

 

On X https://twitter.com/robkhenderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

 

Substack https://substack.com/@robkhenderson

 

Newsletter https://www.robkhenderson.com/ 

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