First, what’s behind the rise in suicide? [ dur: 30 mins. ]

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• Mark S. Kaplan is a professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His publications include, The social nature of male suicide: A new analytic model; Suicide among male veterans: a prospective population-based study; and Physical illness, functional limitations, and suicide risk: a population-based study.

Then, a look at how the unconscious mind and biological predispositions effect political outcomes, waging war and prejudice biases. [ dur: 26 mins. ]

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• Shankar Vedantam is a science correspondent with NPR. He is the author of The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elects Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives.
• Guillermo Jiménez is an Associate Professor of International Trade at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the author of Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality.

Produced by the Scholars’ Circle team: Ankine Aghassian, Melissa Chiprin, Anaïs Amin, Tim Page, Mike Hurst and Sudd Dongre.

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