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Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.

On this show, Dr. Jonathan Gottschall talks about his foray from bummed out adjunct English professor to the Mixed Marshall Arts world and his big cage fight — along with the psychology driving violence and the fight rituals that actually contain it. His fascinating book we’ll be discussing on the show: The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch.

This article appears in Nov 23-30, 2016.

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Dr. Jonathan Gottschall on why men fight and why we like to watch

by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon
November 29, 2016

<h1>Dr. Jonathan Gottschall on why men fight and why we like to watch</h1> <p class="byline">by Hayley Jo Murphy, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />November 29, 2016</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> </div> <p>Welcome to Amy Alkon's <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2016/11/21/dr-jonathan-gottschall-on-why-men-fight-and-why-we-like-to-watch" target="_blank">HumanLab: The Science Between Us</a>, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science.</p> <p>On this show, Dr. Jonathan Gottschall talks about his foray from bummed out adjunct English professor to the Mixed Marshall Arts world and his big cage fight — along with the psychology driving violence and the fight rituals that actually contain it. His fascinating book we'll be discussing on the show: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Professor-Cage-Fight-Like-Watch/dp/1594205639?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;linkId=0fa1f233f6c241a7dc50627074e21648&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl&amp;sa-no-redirect=1&amp;tag=advicegoddess-20" target="_blank">The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. </a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dr-jonathan-gottschall-on-why-men-fight-and-why-we-like-to-watch-2771486/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=21298&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dr-jonathan-gottschall-on-why-men-fight-and-why-we-like-to-watch-2771486/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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