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  • The Urge to Help


    Through Your Body: — Authority Authority: 121
    The Urge to Help We May Be Born With an Urge to Help By NICHOLAS WADE What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents. But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier ...
    1 week ago

  • Why the human race has needed religion to survive


    Integral Options Cafe — Authority Authority: 443
    An evol psych perspective on religion as crucial to human evolution. Partial truth, but on the right track. Sounds like an interesting book. An evolutionary biologist on religion Spirit level Dec 17th 2009 From The Economist print edition Why the human race has needed religion to survive The Faith ...
    1 week ago

  • We May Be Born With an Urge to Help


    Integral Options Cafe — Authority Authority: 443
    Another article looking at the research supporting the idea that we are basically born good, wanting to be helpful and caring about others - I guess theyve never had a three-year-old. Still, the research shows we are not born bad, as some religions might have us thunk. We May Be Born With an Urge to Help ...
    1 week ago

  • Wired to cooperate?


    Social Capital Blog — Authority Authority: 112
    An interesting article in the Science Times section of the NY Times discusses research by developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello (appearing in Why We Cooperate ). At 18 months of age, Tomasello finds that toddlers almost universally immediately help out an adult who needs assistance because his/her arms are ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Did a ‘faith instinct’ help humankind survive?


    Blogging Religiously — Authority Authority: 125
    The notion that we are hard-wired to have faith has gotten a lot of mileage the past few years. It’s the melding of faith and science into one, big…something. NYT science writer Nicholas Wade, who writes often on evolution, has a new book called The Faith Instinct that makes that case that natural ...
    4 weeks ago

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