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• in Technology
  Think Deeper About Using Colors on the Web - A Fruitful Explanation
  Evolutionary look at why we may prefer colorful web designs over those in black and white.
  by cbcaliff / on Sep 29, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “evolutionary psychology”

 

• Ducking Death; Surviving Superannuation

  
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  Awe and wonder and the occasional “Eureka!” may be enough for science, but religious models have offered fellowship, absolution, forgiveness, salvation, and enlightenment. read more
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• Can Young People Afford to Marry?

  
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  One of the main reasons for staying single may be that young adults cannot afford marriage. read more
  4 days ago

• Are Male Dogs More Aggressive Than Females?

  
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  Male and female dogs not only differ in the frequency and the severity of aggressive behaviors, but also in the way in which canine aggression is expressed. Peoples beliefs about sex differences in aggression among dogs are often influenced by our stereotypes about sex differences in humans. read more
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• 237 Reasons Humans Have Sex

  
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  There are (at least) 237 reasons humans have sex. (© Vstock LLC/Tetra Images/Corbis) Asking why humans have sex might seem like an obvious question. It feels good. It bonds us together. Oh, and the future of the human species depends on it. But prior to the 2007 study, “ Why Humans Have Sex ,” published in the ...
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• The Wedding Ring Phenomenon

  
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  A wedding bands chick magnets? (Thinkstock/istockphoto) Recently, a Stuff Mom Never Told You listener wrote in with a perplexing question about she terms “the wedding ring phenomenon”: “ …a guy, lets call him John, told us about how he will wear a wedding ring while trying to pick up women. I thought it ...
  5 days ago

• Are you fat? You can’t earn a PhD, according to one Evolutionary Psychologist

  
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  Geoffrey Miller, author of The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, has made a goof. Miller is an evolutionary psychologist with an interested in IQ, the usual sex related things Evolutionary Psychologists are interested in, etc. etc. On June 2nd he wrote this tweet: Dear obese PhD ...
  1 week ago

• Women Flock to Pornography

  
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  Survey data indicates that 30 percent of Internet pornography users are women. This is a problem for evolutionary psychologists who claim that women choose relationship-based romance literature over visual erotica. read more
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• The Barking Dog Blues: Why Dogs Bark and What to Do About It

  
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  During the process of domestication humans specifically chose dogs that barked loudly and could sound the alarm if something unusual or dangerous occurred. To control barking we can respond to the message the dog is sending or we can mimic the behavior that wild canines used to control noisy puppies. read more
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• What Is Man?

  
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  The sky’s the limit once we lend our own inventiveness to the evolutionary process. read more
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• Geoffrey Miller Fat Tweet Follow Up: UNM Prof Claims ‘Social Experiment’

  
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  Professor Geoffrey Miller of UNM is visiting NYU this summer, but he embarrassed both universities this week with a rapidly deleted tweet mocking obese grad students and insinuating that he judged students’ work on their appearance as well as the work itself — a comment that got the evolutionary psychology ...
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• Weight Loss: How to Turn Pain Into Pleasure

  
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  The epidemic of obesity and related diseases is caused by a sedentary lifestyle rather than over eating, as argued in my previous post. A healthy dose of physical activity is the cure. The problem is that activity has an undeserved reputation for causing pain. read more
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• REFERENCE: The Smith Model, an architecture for cybernetics and mind-body/ free will/ determinism/ compatibilism analysis . . .

  
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  Since the issue of agent freedom and cause has again come up, it is worth the while to post the following summary on the Smith Model for agent cause and cybernetics, from the IOSE unit on minds etc: __________ >> (c) Of neurons, brains and minds The neuron (in its various types) is the key building brick ...
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• Geoffrey Miller, Visiting NYU Professor, Eats Crow After Obnoxious Fat Shaming Tweet

  
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  Geoffrey Miller is a visiting professor currently on loan from the University of New Mexico to New York University, but a horribly body shaming tweet he sent this weekend has probably made both schools ashamed to claim him. Over on Twitter,  Geoffrey Miller tweets under the totally scientifically respectable handle ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Weeks Top Posts

  
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• Bad Evolutionary Arguments

  
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  The introductory psychology course I teach for is very heavy on evolutionary psychology. The danger with evolutionary explanations is that its pretty easy to come up with bad ones. Heres the best illustration Ive seen, from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal : How do you tell a good evolutionary argument from ...
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• The Superself: Genome, Menome, and Wenome

  
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  Selfhood resides not only in the genome and the menome, but in the wenome. read more
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• Can Atheism Really Replace Religion?

  
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  My blogs on this topic generated millions of hits and plenty of skepticism. Resistance to overwhelming scientific evidence for the decline in religion is nothing new. Objections come from religious people and some atheists who argue there will always be weak people, unlike them, who need religion. Does either camp ...
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• Does Punishing a Dog After a Transgression Really Work?

  
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  People often punish a dog after they find evidence that it has misbehaved, or sometimes in the middle of the act when the dog has already finished most of the unwanted behavior. Data shows that such punishment doesnt work. Even punishing a dog only 15 seconds after the act has been committed is unlikely to keep the ...
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• #PopEvPsych has another fail - sex and sexuality differences

  
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  Its one of the biggest "commonplaces" of Pop Evolutionary Psychology, and somewhat of more restrained "legitimate" (I reserve the right for the scare quotes) evolutionary psychology that men are from Mars and women are from Venus in terms of sexual desire, sexual drive levels, and, above all, sexual roving eyes and ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Self" Is a Misnomer

  
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  The “self” may appear to act alone but it depends on input from other selves... read more
  3 weeks ago

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