evolutionary psychology

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• Danger: Unreadable Flying Objects

  
  Obscene Desserts — Authority: 120
  Weve had a rather nice, quiet time here in the OD household over the holidays so far (though its been a bit too drearily rainy outside). Its been good to withdraw from the world a bit, perhaps except for catching up on the latest terrorist panic: is it just me, or is it a particularly sad comment on the state of ...
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• Your pain is my gain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Did you experience a twinge of joy when any of the following was publicly humiliated: Paris Hilton; Bernie Madoff; Britney Spears; Kenneth Lay; Alan Stanford; Tiger Woods; Dennis Kozlowski; Hugh Grant; Martha Stewart? Most people do not want to admit that they feel pleasure in anothers downfall. Yet the pleasure is ...
  21 hours ago

• Copenhagen and the Commons

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I discussed the tragedy of the commons in a recent post here, and over the last month have been struck by how well this concept fit some of te events at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Here are some thoughts on this, also posted at my blog on Huffington Post : Reviews of this months Copenhagen ...
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• The Diametric Revolution in Psychotherapy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Revolution/revolutionary are often very over-used words, and boil down to little more than hype for things which seldom deserve such sensational slogans. But a true revolution in psychotherapy is in the making in relation to the so-called “diametric model” of mental illness. Diametric derives from diameter , ...
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• Why Is Health Care a Right?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  In the partisan debate on the current health care reform in Congress, nobody on either side seems to question the underlying assumption that basic health care is a right, not a privilege.  But why is health care a right? In a capitalist economy like the United States, everybody has to purchase everything they want ...
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• The True Meaning of Christmas

  
  Psychology Today — Authority: 141
  Lets be honest.
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• Religious Piety as a Mating Strategy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The evolutionary significance of religion is a hot topic. Several researchers have suggested that religious belief is one or another sort of parasitic meme that exploits the existing architecture of the human mind (I made joking reference to this view in my earlier post  How the Dawkins Stole Christmas , but I ...
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• Physical Pain and Emotional Pain: More Similar Than You Think

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  New research led by psychologist C. Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and reported in the journal Psychological Science suggests that physical pain and emotional pain may be more similar than you think. In a first experiment, volunteers were randomized either to take 1,000 mg/day of acetaminophen (the ...
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• Peak oil and the psychology of work

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 615
  The following is a guest post from Vinay Kumar, who lives in the small coastal town in Southern India. Vinay has a Phd in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. He works as a systems engineer and volunteers on an organic farm that he helped to create. He also ...
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• Invictus: Race harmony and rugby

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Conflicts are easy to begin and much harder to patch up. Deep in the human psyche, we divide the social landscape into us and them - in-groups and out-groups. Early social psychologists were preoccupied by this problem. Their interest was piqued by the holocaust to which many had lost family members. Social division ...
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• Women and low pitched men.

  
  News You Can't Use ! — Authority: 433
  There was a discussion today on an email list I’m part of regarding the history of high pitched female singers in Hindi film music and its correlation to the dominance of Lata Mangeshkar in the industry. Don’t ask me how, this soon led to an exchange on men with deep voices and women and evolutionary psychology . ...
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• Does evolutionary psychology make it hard to understand "culture"?

  
  Jaltcoh — Authority: 465
  Ive been reading Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters over my Christmas vacation. Its similar to Robert Wrights The Moral Animal in that it popularizes evolutionary psychology . But the authors (Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa) update Wrights 1994 book by using more recent research to answer a slew of ...
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• Perfume Preferences and Body Chemistry.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A common gift offered during the holiday season is the ubiquitous perfume or cologne. We all have unique self-preferences when it comes to our favorite perfumes. What determines these preferences? Is it the persuasive ability of the advertising campaign? Is it the celebrity endorser whose name is associated with ...
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• Born to be Good – Dacher Keltner

  
  Soren Svendsen — Authority: 99
  On the same topic he appeared on the Point of Inquiry-Podcast Dacher Keltner – Born to Be Good and at Berkeley Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion & Spirituality? Tagged: Born to be Good, Charles Darwin, Dacher Keltner, emotion, evolution, evolutionary psychology, evolutionær psykologi, følelser, neuroscience, ...
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• Why Are We Surprised?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The only thing that’s surprising about the current Tiger Woods saga is that it is surprising at all. I have held off talking about the Tiger Woods fiasco, because I felt I had already said everything that is to be said about it during the last sex scandal (and the one before) to add anything new.  I’d only ...
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• Matt Yglesias Dials Neo-Con Warlord John Boltons Attempts at Evolutionary Psychology Back to Zero

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 526
  Via Matthew Yglesias we learn that former Bush minion and permanent-war proponent John Bolton is also a follower of pull-it-out-of-your-ass evolutionary psychology. Quoth Bolton You know, homo sapiens are hard-wired for violent conflict, and we’re not going to eliminate violent conflict until homo sapiens ...
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• Externally self-motivated: A winding tale of love, unemployment, evolution, theology, apples, and oranges.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  My writing drives some people crazy because I make big jumps from one topic to another. One minute Im talking romance, the next Im talking the origins of life.  I aim to edit for smooth transitions but theres a bigger problem than prose styling.  Ive invested decades in research that trains my mind to follow ...
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• The Comic (?) Side of Evolution

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  You might not expect a scientists creativity to show up in the form of playfulness, at least not in his "serious" nonfiction books. Yet Richard Dawkinss humanity and sense of humor shine through nearly every page of The Greatest Show on Earth , which I found delightful. I had often read quibbles, including from ...
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• Does Genius Bloom in Individuals or in Groups?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Wikipedia has shown the power of group genius. When people put their many minds together, they often reach a precision or breadth of ideas more quickly than individuals can. Another good example of the power of collective genius came this year, when British mathematician Timothy Gowers proposed to solve an elusive ...
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• The Psych Files - Evolutionary Psychology – David Buss Responds to Critics (2 Parts)

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 444
  Interesting discussion - evolutionary psychology has been getting a lot of flack in the past few months, mostly for its reductionism and its attempt to complex human behaviors in very simple terms. Evol psych has a lot to offer, as long as it acknowledges its own limitations. I still have issues, but its good that ...
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