An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

John Lehr
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Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

  1. Aug 13

    Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens

    The Two Humans put on their space helmets and probe humankind’s one-hundred-year-old obsession with space aliens.  Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Albright, Thomas D. 2023 On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 241-256. Al-Khalili, Jim 2016 Introduction: Where Is Everybody? Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 1-10.  Bader, Christopher D.  2003 Supernatural Support Groups: Who Are the UFO Abductees and Ritual-Abuse Survivors? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Dec., 2003, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 669-67. Becket, Stefan 2023 What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?. CBS News, September 14, 2023, www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/. Bialik, Carl and Taylor Orth 2025 Half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth. YouGov (website), November 25, 2025, yougov.com/en-us/articles/53486-half-of-americans-believe-aliens-have-visited-earth. Bullard, Thomas E. 1989 UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise. The Journal of American Folklore , Apr. - Jun., 1989, Vol. 102, No. 404 (Apr. - Jun., 1989), pp. 147-170. Bynum, Joyce 1993 Kidnapped by an Alien: Tales of UFO Abductions. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Spring 1993, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 86-95. Campbell, Dallas 2016 Flying Saucers: A Brief History of Sightings and Conspiracies. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 35-46. Cleveland Clinic 2023 Highway Hypnosis Is Just Around the Bend. The Cleveland Clinic (website), June 9, 2023, health.clevelandclinic.org/highway-hypnosis.  Consolmagno, Guy and Paul Mueller 2014 Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?...And Other Questions from the Astronomers’ In-Box at the Vatican Observatory. Image, New York, NY.  Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan 2007 Some Things We Know about Aliens. The Yearbook of English Studies, 2007, Vol. 37, No. 2, Science Fiction (2007), pp. 1-23. Dartnell, Lewis 2016 (Un)welcome Visitors: Why Aliens Might Visit Us. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 25-34. Dean, Jodi 1998 Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.  De Pinto, Jennifer, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus 2026 CBS News poll finds most Americans believe extraterrestrial life exists – and some think it's already here. CBS News, June 11, 2026, www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-believe-extraterrestrial-life-exists-opinion-poll/. Dewan, William J.  2006 "A Saucerful of Secrets": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of UFO Experiences. The Journal of American Folklore, Spring, 2006, Vol. 119, No. 472 (Spring, 2006), pp. 184-202. Dick, Steven J. 1998 Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  French, Christopher C. 2016 Abducted: The Psychology of Close Encounters with Extraterrestrials. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 58-69. 2023 Hypnotic Regression and False Memories. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 283-294. Gregersen, Erik 2026 Fermi Paradox. Britannica, July 22, 2026, www.britannica.com/ science/Fermi-paradox. Gutierrez, Lisa 2026 Fictionalized Kansas City at heart of Spielberg’s new ET movie, ‘Disclosure Day.’ The Kansas City Star, June 10, 2026, www.kansascity.com/news/local/ article316047404.html. Henderson, Amy 2026 Orson Welles and the 70th Anniversary of War of the Worlds. Face to Face (blog), The National Portrait Gallery (website), npg.si.edu/blog/orson-welles-and-70th-anniversary-war-worlds, (accessed August 3, 2026).  Hilditch, Cameron 2021 UFOs Don’t Cancel Out Christianity. National Review, May 30, 2021, staging.nationalreview.com/2021/05/ufos-dont-cancel-out-christianity/?utm_source=recirc-mobile&utm_medium=article&utm_ campaign=river&utm_content=next-article&utm_term=first. Huston, Peter 2023 Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 61-76. Lewis, Briley 2025 How many planets are in the universe? Live Science, April 28, 2025, www.livescience.com/space/how-many-planets-are-in-the-universewww.jpl.nasa.gov/news/billions-and-billions-of-planets/. Lewis-Kraus, Gideon 2021 The U.F.O. Papers. The New Yorker, May 10, 2021. Lohn, Kate 2026 The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens? Britannica (website), www.britannica.com/story/the-fermi-paradox-where-are-all-the-aliens, (accessed July 29, 2026). Luckhurst, Roger  1998 The Science-Fictionalization of Trauma: Remarks on Narratives of Alien Abduction. Science Fiction Studies , Mar., 1998, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 29-52. Markham, Devan 2025 UFO vs. UAP: What’s the difference? NewsNation, September 9, 2025, www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name. McNally, Richard J., Natasha B. Lasko, Susan Clancy, Michael L. Macklin, et al. 2004 Psychophysiological Responding during Script-Driven Imagery in People Reporting Abduction by Space Aliens. Psychological Science, Jul., 2004, Vol. 15, No. 7 (Jul., 2004), pp. 493-497. Memmot, Mark 2013 75 Years Ago, 'War Of The Worlds' Started A Panic. Or Did It? NPR, October 30, 2013, www.npr.org/sections/ thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it. NASA 2026 Age & Size of the Universe Through the Years. NASA’s Cosmic Times (website), imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/ educators/guide/age_size.html, (accessed August 2, 2026). 2026 Star Basics. NASA (website), science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/, (accessed July 26, 2026). 2026 Then vs. Now: The Age of the Universe. NASA’s Imagine the Universe (website), imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/featured_science/tenyear/ age.html (accessed August 2, 2026). NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2013 Billions and Billions of Planets. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (website), January 3, 2013, www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/billions-and-billions-of-planets/. Planet Comics 1947 Planet Comics: Auro, Lord of Jupiter in “The Mecho Men from Mars” also Mysta of the Moon Lost World – Futura and Many Others, Number 46, January 1947. Love Romances Pub. Co., Inc., New York, NY. Pooley, Jefferson and Michael J. Socolow 2013 The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic. Slate, October 28, 2013, slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html. Psychology Today 2025 Dissociation. Psychology Today, November 26, 2025, www. psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dissociation. Rees, Martin 2016 Aliens and US: Could Post-humans Spread through the Galaxy? Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 11-21. Schick, Jr., Theodore and Lewis Vaughn 2014 How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (7th Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.  Schwartz, A. Brad 2015 The Infamous “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke. Smithsonian Magazine, May 6, 2015, www.smithsonianmag.com/ history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180. SETI 2026 The Fermi Paradox. SETI.org (website), www.seti.org/research/seti-101/fermi-paradox/, (accessed August 2, 2026). Sharps, Matthew J. 2023 Forensic Cognitive Science and the UFO Phenomenon. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 368-384. 2024 The Forensic View: Investigative Psychology, Law Enforcement, Space Aliens, Exploration, and the Nature of Madness. Matthew J. Sharps, Coppell, TX. Summer, Jay Vera 2025 Hypnopompic Hallucinations. Sleep Foundation, July 10, 2025, www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnopompic-hallucinations.  Teti, Matthew 2026 UFOs, Manifest Destiny, and the Climate Crisis: The Case for Space and Its Discontent. Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play & Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture (ed. Jessica Landau and Maria Lu). Amherst College Press, Amherst, MA, pp. 207-224. Thompson, Keith 1991 Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA.  Tyson, Neil deGrasse  2026 Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.  Simon Six, New York, NY. Watson, Nigel 2023 On the Credibility of the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction Case. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 220-228. White, Luise 2023 Aliens Are Good to Talk With. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-

  2. Jun 24

    Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top)

    The Two Humans take a good, hard look in the mirror and decide they need cosmetic surgery.  Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top) An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501   Resources: Akter, Farhana and Greg Williams 2016 The Evolution of Hair Transplant Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 431-446.   Arnett, George 2014 Germany: the world's capital of penis enlargement. The Guardian, July 31, 2014, www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/31/germany-the-worlds-capital-of-penis-enlargment-country.   Blair, Lorrie and Maya Shalmon 2005 Cosmetic Surgery and the Cultural Construction of Beauty. Art Education, May 2005, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 14-18.   Britannica Editors 2026 Body Modifications and Mutilations. Britannica.com, www.britannica.com/ science/body-modifications-and-mutilations, (accessed June 11, 2026).   Bukumal, Zain and Ash Mosahebi 2016 Body Contouring. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 409-430.   Chen, Yuan, Yinuo Jiang, Xiao Li, Bin Wang, et al. 2025 Penile enhancement: A comprehensive and current perspective. Current Urology, March 28, 2025, 19(3), pp. 145–156.   Cleveland Clinic 2023 Foreskin Restoration. The Cleveland Clinic (website), July 18, 2023, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25139-foreskin-restoration. Deslandes, Paul R. 2021 The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.   Drury, Colin 2018 ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension. The Guardian, September 22, 2018, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/ sep/22/penis-extension-wanted-truncheon-in-pants-rise.   Duguid, Michelle M. and Jack A. Goncalo 2012 Living Large: The Powerful Overestimate Their Own Height. Psychological Science, January 2012, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 36-40.   Gangestad, Steven W. and Glenn J. Scheyd 2005 The Evolution of Human Physical Attractiveness. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005, Vol. 34 (2005), pp. 523-548.   Gilman, Sander L. 1999 Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.    Honigman, Roberta J., Katharine A. Phillips, and David J. Castle 2004 A Review of Psychological Outcomes for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Surgery. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, April 1, 2004, 113(4), pp. 1229-1237.   Kanapathy, Muholan and Niall Kirkpatrick 2016 Facial Aesthetic Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 346-373. Korhonen, Anu 2010 Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer 2010, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 371-391.   Kottak, Conrad Phillip 2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity (Fourteenth Edition), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Lee, Bruce Y. 2026 ‘Bone Smashing’ TikTok Trend, Here Are Dangers Of Hammering Your Face. Minded by Science, March 1, 2026, bruceylee.substack.com/p/bone-smashing-tiktok-trend-here-are. 2026 What Is Mogging? Psychology Today, March 5, 2026, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202603/what-is-mogging.   Leung, Billy Ching, Kimberly Lau, and Hugo Henderson 2016 Blepharoplasty – Special Focus on Asian Blepharoplasty. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 374-386.   Lincoln, Margarette 2024 Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.   Mangweth, B., H.G. Pope, G. Kemmler, C. Einbichler, et al. 2001 Body Image and Psychopathology in Male Bodybuilders. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vol. 70, No. 1 (2001), pp. 38-43. Michaelson, Ruth 2025 ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened. The Guardian, August 17, 2025, www.theguardian.com/ lifeandstyle/2025/aug/17/being-short-is-a-curse-the-men-paying-thousands-to-get-their-legs-broken-and-lengthened.   Murugesan, Log, Julia Ruston, and Patrick Mallucci 2016 Aesthetic Breast Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 387-408   Pandolfi, Mariella 1999 Body. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, June 1999, Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (June 1999), pp. 16-19.   Pappas, Dale 2026 Was Napoleon Short? Here’s the Truth About His Height. The Collector, April 4, 2026, www.thecollector.com/how-tall-was-napoleon/.   Perito Clinic 2026 The History of Penis Enlargement: From Prehistoric Times to Today. PeritoClinic.com (website), peritoclinic.com/the-history-of-penis-enlargement-from-prehistoric-times-to-today/ (accessed June 14, 2026).   Reischer, Erica and Kathryn S. Koo 2004 The Body Beautiful: Symbolism and Agency in the Social World. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2004, Vol. 33 (2004), pp. 297-317.   Rhode, Deborah L.  2009 The Injustice of Appearance. Stanford Law Review, Mar., 2009, Vol. 61, No. 5 (Mar., 2009), pp. 1033-1101.   Ricciardelli, Rosemary and Kimberley Clow 2009 Men, Appearance, and Cosmetic Surgery: The Role of Self-esteem and Comfort with the Body. The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2009), pp. 105-134.   Rothfeld, Becca 2026 The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement. The New Yorker, March 7, 2026, www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-captivating-derangement-of-the-looksmaxxing-movement.   Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) 2026 What Is the Average Penis Size?. Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) (website), www.smsna.org/patients/did-you-know/what-is-the-average-penis-size (accessed June 14, 2026).    Snaith, Philip 1992 Body Image Disorders. 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  3. May 5

    Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale.

    The Two Humans are joined by comedian, actor, and art lover Chris Hogan as they discuss sticky fingers in art museums and why it’s so hard to recover stolen artworks. Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources:   Aikman, Ian and Rachel Hagen 2025 Everything We Know about the Louvre Jewelry Heist. BBC, October 20, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo.   Alford, Kenneth D.  2000 Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA.   Artbusiness.com 2026 Art Provenance: What It Is and How to Verify It. Artbusiness.com (website), www.artbusiness.com/provwarn.html (accessed March 22, 2026).    Barelli, John and Zachary Schisgal 2019 Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts. Lyons Press, Guilford, CT.   Borodkin, Lisa J.  1995 The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a Proposed Legal Alternative. Columbia Law Review, Mar., 1995, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Mar., 1995), pp. 377-417.    Brower II, Charles H.  2005 Republic of Austria v. Altmann. The American Journal of International Law, Jan., 2005, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 236-242.   Charney, Noah 2018 The Museum of Lost Art. Phaedon Press Limited, London, UK. 2024 The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. Collins, Donald E. and Herbert P. 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The National Interest, May/June 2011, No. 113 (May/June 2011), pp. 16-26.   Gaudenzi, Bianca and Astrid Swenson 2017 Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century—Towards a Global Perspective. Journal of Contemporary History, July 2017, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 491-518.    Gerstenblith, Patty 2008 Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law (Second Edition). Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC.    Gerstenblith, Patty and Lucille Roussin 2007 International Cultural Property. The International Lawyer, SUMMER 2007, Vol. 41, No. 2, International Legal Developments in Review: 2006 (SUMMER 2007), pp. 613-628.   Givens, Seth A. 2014 Liberating the Germans: The US Army and Looting in Germany during the Second World War. War in History, January 2014, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 33-54.    Hendricks, Ashley Domingo 2022 Our Obsession with Art Heists. 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NPR, March 20, 2025, www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54909/golden-toilet-stolen-cattelan-6-million-convicted.   Reyhan, Patricia Youngblood 2001 A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art. Duke Law Journal, Feb., 2001, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Feb., 2001), pp. 955-1043.   Roodt, Christa 2013 Restitution of Art and Cultural Objects and Its Limits. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, November 2013, Vol. 46, No. 3 (November 2013), pp. 286-307.   Schapiro, Rich and Ani Ucar 2026 A $58,000 sofa? Inside the mind-boggling crime spree of L.A.'s 'most tasteful' burglar. NBC News, April 3, 2026, www.nbcnews.com/ investigations/58000-sofa-mind-boggling-crime-spree-ls-tasteful-burglar-rcna254532.    Shoumatoff, Alex 2014 The Devil and the Art Dealer. Vanity Fair, March 19, 2014, www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment.   Spencer, Ronald D. and Gary D. Sesser 2013 Provenance: Important, Yes, But Often Incomplete and Often Enough, Wrong. Artnet, June 26, 2013, news.artnet.com/market/the-importance-of-provenance-in-determining-authenticity-29953.   UNESCO 2023 The illicit trafficking of cultural goods shall be recognized as a security issue. UNESCO (website), November 23, 2023, www.unesco.org/en/articles/ illicit-trafficking-cultural-goods-shall-be-recognized-security-issue.   Willingham, Leah 2026 Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum. APNnews.com. April 26, 2026, apnews.com/article/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-heist-boston-512da0322ce5c93c1bbafc7a5e228b2c.

  4. Mar 3

    Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile?

    Oh la la!! The Two Humans travel back to their own adolescence to investigate why people become obsessed with certain activities. Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile? An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: American Psychological Association  2002   Developing Adolescents: A Reference for Professionals. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.   Amodeo, John 2018   Would You Like to Be More Interesting: Keys to Richer Connections. Psychology Today, June 4, 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intimacy-a-path-toward-spirituality/201806/would-you-like-to-become-more-interesting.   Aristides 1997   Life and Letters: Anglophilia, American Style. The American Scholar, Summer 1997, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 327-334.    Basford, Steve 2024   Breaking Away: A Retrospective. Proving Press, Newark, OH.   Bauerlein, Monika 2015   Last of the Munichans. Mother Jones, July/August 2015, www.motherjones.com/ media/2015/07/europeans-dressed-as-native-americans-photos.   Brown, Laurence 2013   Lost in the Pond: Why Are There So Many American Anglophile? Anglotopia, October 14, 2013, anglotopia.net/anglophilia/lost-in-the-pond-why-are-there-so-many-american-anglophiles/.   Bucar, Liz 2022   Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.   Burton, Antoinette 2003   When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the “American Century.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 75, No. 2 (June 2003), pp. 359-374.   Coffey, Simon 2010   Stories of Frenchness: Becoming a Francophile. Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 119-136.   Copeland, Libby 2021   Why Are We All So Obsessed with Genealogy. Literary Hub, June 11, 2021, lithub.com/we-are-we-all-so-obsessed-with-genealogy/.   Deloria, Philip J. 1998   Playing Indian. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.   Dery, Mark 2013   England My England: Anglophilia Explained. Thought Catalog, Brooklyn, NY.   Dewey, Dan P. 2007   Language Learning During Study Abroad: What We Know and What We Have Yet to Learn. Japanese Language and Literature, Oct., 2007, Vol. 41, No. 2, Study Abroad for Advanced Skills (Oct., 2007), pp. 245-269.   Everett, Dion 2025   The French Dispatch and Francophilia in Film. 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Glenn Penny 2015   Becoming ‘Indigenous’: German Fascination with North American Indians.  Utne Reader, February 13, 2015, www.utne.com/community/north-american-indians-ze0z1502zhur/.   Hale, Matthew 2014   Cosplay: Intertextuality, Public Texts, and the Body Fantastic. Western Folklore, Winter 2014, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Winter 2014), pp. 5-37.   Hents, Nathan H. 2018   The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Genealogy. Psychology Today, January 29, 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beastly-behavior/201801/the-meaning-and-meaninglessness-genealogy.   Jackson, Lauren Michele 2019   White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue…And Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation. Beacon Press Books, Boston, MA.   Joutard, Genevieve and Philippe Joutard 2006   De la francophilie en Amerique : Ces Americains qui aiment la France. Actes Sud, Arles, France.   Kale, Sirin 2020   The New Anglophilia: Why the US is Going Wild for English Accents and Culture. 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Oddee, June 16, 2015, www.oddee.com/item_99357.aspx.   Pink, Matthew 2025   The Francophile Condition. The Good Life France (website), thegoodlifefrance.com/the-francophile-condition/, (accessed January 29, 2026).   Psychologs Entertainment 2024   The Psychology Behind Passion. Psychologs, January 5, 2024, www.psychologs.com/the-psychology-behind-passion/ ?srsltid =AfmBOoqXHdRIqaRYbWX0_WXvrxkODfem1xiyG7WzQr-ZoJbQklfN4ZP7.   Psychology Today 2025   Imposter Syndrome. Psychology Today.com (website), www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/imposter-syndrome, accessed February 2, 2026.   Queenan, Joe 2011   Why America’s Anglophiles Are Missing the Point of the Royal Wedding. Time, April 28, 2011, time.com/archive/6595657/why-americas-anglophiles-are-missing-the-point-of-the-royal-wedding/.   Rickman, Catherine 2021   5 of the Most Famous Francophiles in History. Frenchly, February 17, 2021, frenchly.us/5-of-the-most-famous-francophiles-in-history/.   Said, Edward W. 1978   Orientalism. Vintage Books, New York, New York.   Schumpe, Birga Mareen and Hans-Peter Erb 2015   Humans and Uniqueness. Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 8, No. 1 (2015), pp. 1-11. Tuan, Yi-Fu 1998   Escapism.  The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. Vallerand, Robert J. 2010   On Passion for Life Activities: The Dualistic Model of Passion. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (ed. Mark Zanna), Vol. 42, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 97-193.

  5. Jan 20

    Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.

    It’s time to high five and give each other some skin as The Two Humans celebrate those two work horses at the end of our arms—THE HANDS! Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources:   Alpenfels, Ethel J. 1955   The Anthropology and Social Significance of the Human Hand. Artificial Limbs, May 1, 1955, 2 (2), pp. 4-21.   Baccarini, Matteo and Angelo Maravita 2013   Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 77-99.   Bell, Charles 1852   The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design. London, John Murray.   Bremner, Andrew J. and Dorothy Cowie 2013   Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 27-55.    Bridgman, George B. 1920   The Book of a Hundred Hands. Dover Publications, Garden City, New York.   Britannica Editors 2021   Brachiation. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), December 20, 2021, www.britannica.com/science/brachiation.   Byrns, Arthur G. 1906   The Hand in Art. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1906), pp. 117-122.   Cahn, Laura 2024   14 Common Hand Gestures That Are Rude in Other Countries. Reader’s Digest, November 25, 2024, www.rd.com/article/common-hand-gestures-rude-in-other-countries/.   Cole, Jonathan 2013   “Capable of Whatever Man’s Ingenuity Suggests”: Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-25.    Cooperrider, Kensy 2020   Where Do Finger Names Come From? JSTOR Daily, January 1, 2020, daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/.   Farmer, Harry and Manos Tsakiris 2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 103-130.   Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park 2007   Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (Fifth Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.   Given, Leila 1929   The Bacterial Significance of the Handshake. The American Journal of Nursing, Mar., 1929, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Mar., 1929), pp. 254-256.   Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride 2011   Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Ninth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.   Helvetius, Claude Adrien 1810   De l’Esprit or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties (translated from the French). London: Albion Press.   Herz, Robert 2013   The Pre-Eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2013), pp. 335-357.   Holmes, Nicholas P. 2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 57-76.   International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) 2024   Animals with Opposable Thumbs. International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) (website), September 18, 2024, www.ifaw.org/journal/animals-opposable-thumbs.   Isaac Newton.org 2026   Isaac Newton Quotes. Isaac Newton.org (website), www.isaacnewton.org/ quotes.jsp (accessed January 12, 2026).   Keller, Helen 2023   The Story of My Life. Global Publishers, Glendale, WI.   Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 2010   Oldest evidence of human stone tool use and meat-eating found. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (website), August 12, 2010.   Morrison, Terri and Wayne A. Conaway 1995   Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands (2nd Edition). Adams Media, Stoughton, MA.    Napier, John (Revised by Russell H. Tuttle) 1980   Hands. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.   Prinz, Jesse J. 2013   Foreword: Hand Manifesto. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. ix-xvii.    Radman, Zdravko 2013   Beforehand. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. xix-xxii.    Ratcliffe, Matthew 2013   Touch and the Sense of Reality. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 131-157.    Read, Alice 2024   Why are hands so difficult to draw? Using the failures of AI to understand. Art UK, July 8, 2024, artuk.org/discover/stories/why-are-hands-so-difficult-to-draw-using-the-failures-of-ai-to-understand.   Roberts, Alice 2018   Evolution: The Human Story, Second Edition. Dorling Kindersley, New York, NY.   Rolian, Campbell, Daniel E. Lieberman, and Benedikt Hallgrimsson 2010   The Coevolution of Human Hands and Feet. Evolution, June 2010, Vol. 64, No. 6 (June 2010), pp. 1558-1568.   Siede, Carolyn 2017   Here’s Why Cartoon Characters Only Have 4 Fingers. A.V. Club, March 29, 2017, www.avclub.com/here-s-why-cartoon-characters-only-have-4-fingers-1798259730.   TCT: Top China Travel 2025   Chinese Etiquette: Fist and Palm Salute. TCT: Top China Travel (website), www.topchinatravel.com/china-guide/chinese-etiquette-fist-and-palm-salute.htm, accessed December 22, 2025.   Tyler, Adrienne 2022   Why So Many Cartoon Characters Only Have 4 Fingers. Screen Rant, January 1, 2022, screenrant.com/cartoon-characters-four-fingers-hands-animation-reason/.   Webster, Richard 2024   Palm Reading for Beginners. Llewellyn Publications, Woodbury, Minnesota.   Wilson, Frank 1998   The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture. Vintage Books, New York, NY.

  6. 12/09/2025

    Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock

    You WILL listen to this episode. You WILL enjoy it. The Two Humans discuss Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 Resources: Caspar, Emilie A. 2024   Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.   De Vos, Jan 2011   Depsychologizing Torture. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 286-314.   Eckman, Bruce K. 1977   Research: Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Studies. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, March 1977, Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 1977), pp. 88-99.   Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1996   Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. Vintage Books, New York, NY.   Hale, Rebecca 2020   ‘They Were Just Following Orders’: Relationships between Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and Conceptions of Holocaust Perpetration. Holocaust Education: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (ed. Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, and Alice Pettigrew. UCL Press, London, UK.   Harvard University Department of Psychology 2025   Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). Harvard University (website), psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stanley-milgram, (accessed November 30, 2025).   Helm, Charles and Mario Morelli 1979   Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment: Authority, Legitimacy, and Human Action. Political Theory, Aug., 1979, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 321-345.     Krueger, Joachim I. 2008   Review: Lucifer’s Last Laugh: The Devil Is in the Details. Reviewed Work(s): The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. The American Journal of Psychology, Summer, 2008, Vol. 121, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 335-341.   Le Texier, Thibault 2024   Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.   Levine, Robert 2007   Review: The Evil That Men Do. American Scientist, September-October 2007, Vol. 95, No. 5 (September-October 2007), pp. 440-442.   Milgrim, Stanley 1974   Obedience to Authority. Harper Perennial Modern Thought, New York, NY. 1974   The Dilemma of Obedience. The Phi Delta Kappan, May, 1974, Vol. 55, No. 9 (May, 1974), pp. 603-606.   Stannard, Matthew B. 2002   BBC’s ‘Reality’ Show May Be Cruel and Unusual Television/Program Based on Stanford Prison Experiment. SFGate.com, January 28, 2002, www.sfgate.com/ news/article/BBC-s-reality-show-may-be-cruel-and-unusual-2879491.php.   Stevens, Francis L., Robin A. Hurley, and Katherine H. Taber 2011   Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Unique Role in Cognition and Emotion. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2011, pp. 120-125.       Stigler, Kimberly A. and Christopher J. McDougle 2013   Structural and Functional MRI Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ed. Joseph D. Buxbaum and Patrick R. Hof). Academic Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 251-266.   Travers, Jeffrey and Stanley Milgram 1969   An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem. Sociometry, Vol 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp.425-443.   Zimbardo, Philip 2008   The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY.   Zurcher, Anthony 2025   Fallout from ‘illegal orders’ video escalates battle with Democrats over US patriotism. BBC, November 26, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8dqq ddpe8o.

  7. 10/27/2025

    Episode 82: For Fear of Little Men: Fairies, Pixies, and Other Assorted Wee Folk

    A shrieking outside your window. A fluttering at the corner of your eye. In this year’s Halloween episode, The Two Humans investigate the frightening history of FAIRIES. Episode 82: For Fear of Little Men: Fairies, Pixies, and Other Assorted Wee Folk An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 Resources: Allingham, William 2025   The Fairies. Scottish Poetry Library (website), www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem / fairies/, accessed October 19, 2025.   Briggs, K. M. 1957   The English Fairies. Folklore, Mar., 1957, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1957), pp. 270-287.   Christiansen, Reidar Th. 1973   Some Notes on the Fairies and the Fairy Faith. Bealoideas, 1971-1973, Im. 39/41 (1971 – 1973), pp. 95-111.   Chua, Eu Jin 2025   Disenchantment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/ disenchantment-sociology (accessed October 26, 2025).   Daimler, Morgan 2024   The Victorians, the Theosophists and the Cottingley Fairies: The Reshaping of Modern Fairy Belief. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 182-195.   Dearnley, Elizabeth 2021   Introduction. Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae (ed. Elizabeth Dearnley). The British Library, London, UK, pp. 7-17.   Dickson, Meri 2024   Fairy Fraud: The Socio-Cultural Impact of the Cottingley Fairy Photographs. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 251-266.     Doyle, Arthur Conan 1922   The Coming of the Fairies: The Cottingley Incident. Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK.   Eberly, Susan Schoon 1988   Fairies and the Folklore of Disability: Changelings, Hybrids and the Solitary Fairy. Folklore, 1988, Vol. 99, No. 1 (1988), pp. 58-77.   Elfschool 2025   The Elfschool. The Elfschool (website), theelfschool.com (accessed October 26, 2025).   Fae Magazine 2025   Fairy Festivals 2025. Fae Magazine (website), www.faemagazine.com/summer-fairy-festivals-2025/ (accessed October 26, 2025).   Frimmer, Steven 1976   Neverland: Fabled Places and Fabulous Voyages of History and Legend. The Viking Press, New York, NY.   Inuma, Kaori 2024   Edward Gardner’s Theosophical Storyworld. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 159-181.   Jenkins, Richard 2000   Disenchantment, Enchantment and Re-Enchantment: Max Weber at the Millennium. Max Weber Studies, November 2000, Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 2000), pp. 11-32.     Kay, Karen 2024   Fairy Whispering: 111 Magical Practices for Connecting with the Fairies. Hay House, London, UK.   Kelly, Dan 2022   Kansas City’s Fairyland Park Conjures Fond Memories—and the Shadow of Racism. The Kansas City Star, July 22, 2022.   Knight, Sirona 2005   The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Elves and Fairies. Alpha Books, New York, NY.   Maher, F. R. 2021   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Secret of the Cottingley Fairies. F. R. Maher, Coppell, TX.   Purkiss, Diane 2000   Fairies and Fairy Stories: A History. Tempus, Stroud, UK.   Rose, Carol 1996   Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.   Salinas, Andres Felipe Barrero 2023   Max Weber on Disenchantment: Is Religion Obsolete? The Collector, May 31, 2023, www.thecollector.com/max-weber-disenchantment-world-religion/.   Silver, Carole 1986   On the Origin of Fairies: Victorians, Romantics, and Folk Belief.  Browning Institute Studies, 1986, Vol. 14, The Victorian Threshold (1986), pp. 141-156.   Slimane 2023   Land of Fairies: Queer New York at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Medium, June 4, 2023, medium.com/@TVRPGhistory/land-of-fairies-f5ff18184934 .   Young, Simon 2013   A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927-1960. Folklore, August 2013, Vol. 124, No. 2 (August 2013), pp. 139-156. 2024   The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: An Introduction. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX, pp. 7-12.   Zipes, Jack 2000   Introduction. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (ed. Jack Zipes). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. xv-xxxii.

  8. 10/02/2025

    Episode 81: REVENGE! Make Mine Cold and Sweet, Please.

    In this episode, The Two Humans get even with an in-depth discussion of REVENGE! Episode 81:  REVENGE! Make Mine Cold and Sweet, Please. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 Resources: AZ Quotes 2025   John Milton Quotes about Revenge. AZ Quotes (website), accessed September 24, 2025, www.azquotes.com/author/10164-John_Milton/tag/revenge.   Barash, David P. and Judith Eve Lipton 2011   Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY.   BookBrowse 2025   Revenge is a dish best served cold. BookBrowse (website), accessed September 24, 2025, www.bookbrowse.com/expressions/detail/index.cfm/expression_ number/703/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-cold.   De Quervain, Dominique J-F., Urs Fischbacher, Valerie Treyer, Melanie Schellhammer, Ulrich Schnyder, Alfred Buck, and Ernst Fehr 2004   The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment. Science, Vol. 305, August 27, 2004.   Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2025   Talion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed September 22, 2025, www.britannica.com/topic/talion.   Elster, Jon 1992   Norms of Revenge. Ethics and Personality: Essays in Moral Psychology (ed. John Deigh), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.   Jacoby, Susan 1983   Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge.  Harper Colophon Books, New York, NY.     Jaffe, Eric 2011   The Complicated Psychology of Revenge. Association for Psychological Research (website), October 4, 2011, www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.   Kimmel, Jr., James 2025   The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World’s Deadliest Addition—and How to Overcome It. Harmony Books, New York, NY.   McCullough, Michael E. 2008   Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.   Murphy, Jeffrie G. 2003   Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.   Rohland, Lindsay 2022   Eye-for-an-Eye (Talion). EBSCO Knowledge Advantage, accessed September 22, 2025, www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/eye-eye-talion#full-article.   Rosenbaum, Thane 2013   Payback: The Case for Revenge. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

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