epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kurzban

Evolution doesn't care how happy you are The argument that self-deception is to “protect the self” is something like the following.* Suppose human brains have systems designed to avoid pain ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marek Kohn

The search for objective evidence about the possible effects of languages upon thought leads to the question of subjective experience. What does it feel like to be bilingual? CHAPTER SEVEN ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-29 | Author:David M Buss [Buss, David M]

Costs were measured on a 7-point scale by independent raters. Figure 9.2 Distribution of Charity Offers in Public and Anonymous Groups as a Function of the Perceived Cost of the ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kenneth L Davis & Jaak Panksepp [Davis, Kenneth L & Panksepp, Jaak]

A FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE: THE LEXICAL HYPOTHESIS The lexical hypothesis embraces a faith that the spoken language encompassed a profound wisdom: the ability to describe and communicate all human interpersonal behavior ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

Cryptocercus are large for cockroaches. They survive not by sprinting away from enemies in the expected cockroach-in-the-kitchen manner, but passively, relying on the protection of their heavy chitinous armor. They ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Randolph M. Nesse

Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem Social selection has big implications for mental disorders. When I began treating patients, many wanted help to make them less sensitive to what other people thought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Deckers, Lambert

Chapter 8 Psychological Needs and Motives By annihilating desires you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Claude Adrien ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

When the suppliant kneels and holds up his hands with the palms joined, he represents a captive who proves the completeness of his submission by offering up his hands to ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:William H. Calvin

RATIONAL argument alone often cannot overcome those who simply and passionately believe. Yet logic is often bent and distorted in the service of those belief systems; it can even override ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Robert Melillo;Gerry Leisman [Leisman, Robert Melillo;Gerry]

CORTICAL-SUBCORTICAL CIRCUITS AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS In considering how cerebellar, thalamic, or basal ganglionic dysfunction may lead to depression or mania, it has been proposed that it is the result of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...

epub, mobi, azw, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-08-26 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

Beginning with Ashley Montagu in 1952, thinkers with collectivist sympathies have tried to eke out a place for unmeasured generosity by invoking group selection, a Darwinian competition among groups of ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

* * * HOW TIT FOR TAT FEELS TIT FOR TAT's strategy — do unto others as they've done unto you — gives it much in common with the average ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Clive Thompson

Ambient Awareness_ Who cares what you ate for breakfast? That question has become a cliché of Internet criticism, the go-to response to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Robert Wright

Chapter Thirteen How Jesus Became Savior For many Christians, the word “Jesus” is virtually synonymous with the word “savior.” God sent his son so that, as the New Testament puts ...