... [snip] ... Is this not equally true of human beings? Do not the children raised by wolves or otherwise in total isolation from other human beings fail to ...
What I've heard from ZImbardo is that in retrospect the young men in the Prison Experiment felt it was a positive experience, from which they learned a great...
Does anyone have some good references (preferably on-line) or pointers to books that discuss crime and punishment issues from an Evol-Psych perspective? I'm...
A question for the neuroscientists on this list. It may not have an answer yet. I was thinking about modularity in the brain, and how it might be formed. The...
Steven D'Aprano [mailto:dippy@...] wrote: (Timo Jarvilehto) ... Yes, you are right; human beings may develop (human) consciousness only as a part of...
... One thing that this discussion seem to ignore is that most people tend to avoid admitting that they have done something that they shouldn't, in any sense....
I understand that the five factor (or, possibly, six factor) traits are independent of one another; but what about the facets or sub-scales that make up the...
... Are you sure about that? I think this opinion puts you on a slippery slope. How much suffering of a few are you willing to trade for the benefit of the...
... Don't you feel that you are being horribly elitist to assume that the "irrational highly emotive masses" are incapable of understanding anything but the...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:18 pm
... I have met just two formally trained, MA level bio-ethicists. One was doing PR for a major drug co. and the other, as far as I could ascertain, was...
Lynn makes some very important points here <snip> We are wired for empathy, we don't need culture to control our anti- social tendencies, but quite the...
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Irwin Silverman
isilv@...
Sep 1, 2003 3:19 pm
... participants were glad to have participated, 15 percent were neutral, ... type of research should be carried out, and 74% said they had learned ... Don't...
Though my research group <http://csrg.cs.memphis.edu/CSRG/index.html> is one of a half-dozen or so around the world (that I know of) seriously attempting to...
A Brave Theory? It has been suggested to me recently that aggression, bravery, and fortitude - fighting skills - are selected for. It is also suggested that...
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Jorge Simão
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Sep 2, 2003 6:27 am
Hi! The Short answer.... Neuronal surfaces get specialized contigent on inputs they get and global topological architecture. (For a nice review of the topic...
... This is a good point. However, there are several problems with the idea that altruism and empathy would be expressed prosocially without culture. The first...
All research includes risk/benefit analysis. There would be no research of any kind without it. IRB forms include detailed description of possible risks, as...
Dear Andrew Brown, just off-the list: if you are interested on an unorthodox view you could take a look at a recent article of mine ...
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Phil Roberts, Jr.
philrob@...
Sep 2, 2003 6:29 am
... 'Prosocial' is a term I've borrowed from you, and I am no doubt using it clumsily to refer to something a little too specific, such as the willfulness of...
... -- Agreed -- no theory has ever fitted all of the available data. In other words, there are always some observational results that a given theory cannot...
Most researchers and scholars, even those well disposed to the idea that heritability measures are useful in some contexts have not championed their use when...
Searching the evolution of human sexuality The Intelligencer A book review in The New York Times caught my eye. The title of the book is "Sex, Time and Power:...
Dear list, For those who are interested in the Intelligent design vs evolutionary psychology debate there is an article on this subject in the latest edition...
Public release date: 1-Sep-2003 Contact: Richard Davidson rjdavids@... 608-262-8972 University of Wisconsin-Madison Study shows brain activity influences...
Dear Jorge, May I suggest: Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1987). From Evolution to Behavior: Evolutionary Psychology as the Missing Link. In J. Dupré (Ed.), The...
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Phil Roberts, Jr.
philrob@...
Sep 2, 2003 9:15 am
... I think you're forgetting about the venerable Hume, Herb. Some might even argue that, compared to Hume, the past seventy-five years of controlled and...
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Jorge Simão
jsimao@...
Sep 2, 2003 9:19 am
Hi, again! I get your point. And I read it and *believed* about it several years ago when I read the Adapted mind. My general point is that EP uses past...
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 8:12:02 AM, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair wrote: LEOK> adaptations LEOK> are not behaviour, adaptations are the brain...
... I would recommend starting with a base-level textbook, rather than monographs, because the latter tend more to distort the data to fit their theories. Even...
... I probably got the links below from this list so I apologise if this is repitition but the articles are certainly apposite to this discussion, taking the...
