BrainCandy 79: Luxury Beliefs. The new elitist means for distancing oneself from the the masses

Some time ago, Rob Henderson came to my attention. Henderson is a doctoral student in psychology at Cambridge and studied psychology at Yale before that. He runs a very good blog on Substack. Most of it as premium content. A promising young scientist. Henderson has a very unusual CV and develops exciting ideas. Like the insight of Luxury Beliefs. Luxury Beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while often imposing costs on the lower class. His article on these Luxury Beliefs has attracted a lot of attention.  In this short podcast I summarise the article with pleasure Shownotes: https://en.ka-brandresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/BrainCandy-79-EN_Luxury-Beliefs.pdf Link to Hendersons blog https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F4694826-rob-henderson&utm_medium=reader2