Do you care what people will think of you after you die? Easy to say no, but...

My RNZ Saturday Morning interview with Susie Ferguson from last weekend about the psychology of legacy, and how it relates to our intuitions about the afterlife.

You can listen to the full interview here.

And here is the short writeup from the RNZ website.

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For a more in-depth look at the surprisingly complex psychology underlying the human legacy drive, this New Ideas in Psychology article (based on my former student Brett Waggoner’s PhD on the topic) offers a comprehensive summary of the issues.