One of the many reasons that the behavioral sciences have crept forward at a snail's pace over the past century, compared to physics, chemistry and biology and...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 2, 2004 11:09 pm
... TP: Yes, the word is old, and writings about it even older. But words, as words, change meanings. Modern -- and post-modern -- definitions of love are...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 2, 2004 11:11 pm
... A comment on the word "vapors." Yes, we can study vapors, either as physical chemists who study when and how liquids vaporize, or as meteorologists who...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 2, 2004 11:11 pm
... TP. Yes. ... TP: I have another posting on the word "vapors." I know what you mean -- insubstantial stuff that floats away whenever we try to grab hold of ...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Oct 3, 2004 2:21 am
... No, that is wrong on three levels. Irrational numbers are not fractions -- that's what irrational means ("not a ratio"). Irrational numbers are frequently...
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Fred Britton
fwbritton
Oct 3, 2004 5:34 am
... The cycle for the fad of wearing baseball caps backwards must be very long by these standards. I believe the first sightings were around 1983. So we're...
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artemispub
artemistroy
Oct 3, 2004 5:40 am
Who will take Africa's pulse? During the past year, South Africans have been exposed to the practice of traditional African belief systems during high-profile ...
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Michael H Goldhaber
mgoldh3
Oct 3, 2004 5:42 am
As a longtime lurker on this list, I find the discussion of love quite surprising. from the posts I have read, no one seems to have considered, no one seems to...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 3, 2004 7:03 am
Hi, all, One last comment before I retire from the fray for a while -- I've got some other kinds of things to do -- though I've enjoyed all the discussion and...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 3, 2004 7:41 am
Tim Perper ... <Snip ... RKS: Very true, especially that last bit. I think for the purposes of Evolutionary Psychology we should consider Love to be a...
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Jeremy Bowman
bowmanthebard
Oct 3, 2004 8:27 am
In adopting a biological perspective, we must think functionally -- in particular, we must consider the biological purpose of being in love. From that...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 3, 2004 11:53 am
Evolutionary accounts of love will be as varied as theories of love. If I believe that love truly and really is X, Y, and Z, then my evolutionary account of...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 3, 2004 12:17 pm
Timothy Perper ... RKS: That is partly true. I don't think we should shift to the other extreme (contrasting with ethologists limited definitions based...
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Mikey Brass
mikearchaeology
Oct 3, 2004 7:58 pm
Two archaeology courses to be run, - World Archaeology: from Sunday 31 October - Saturday 25 December 2004 - The Ancient Egyptian Past: from Sunday 31 October...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 3, 2004 8:46 pm
Who can make up the best "just so story" about why, when something very good or very bad happens, people utter the "f" word, the "s" word or the name of their...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 3, 2004 8:52 pm
Jay R. Feierman Who can make up the best "just so story" about why, when something very good or very bad happens, people utter the "f" word, the "s" word or...
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Joao Sousa
j.d.sousa@...
Oct 3, 2004 10:31 pm
Hello Jay, At 10:33 03-10-2004 -0600, you wrote: Who can make up the best "just so story" about why, when something very good or very bad happens, people utter...
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lynnoc@...
lynnoc2001
Oct 3, 2004 11:15 pm
The topic of temper tantrums has come up as a theme recently, so I find it interesting that you bring up temper tantrums as a subject of scientific study in...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 3, 2004 11:16 pm
Joăo Dinis de Sousa At 10:33 03-10-2004 -0600, you wrote: Who can make up the best "just so story" about why, when something very good or very bad happens,...
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Timothy Perper/Martha...
timperper
Oct 4, 2004 1:03 am
A brief comment. The issue is why we say something is "fucked up," or why "fuck you" as a *serious* insult, or why "you dirty little fuck" are fighting words, ...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 4, 2004 1:03 am
The answer to my question does not lie in the etymology of the English "f" word. The question should be re-phrased, "Why, when people are very happy, angry, or...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 4, 2004 1:53 am
Jay R. Feierman: The answer to my question does not lie in the etymology of the English "f" word. The question should be re-phrased, "Why, when people are very...
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Graeme Deeth
marshalldeeth@...
Oct 4, 2004 5:11 am
Timo Järvilehto wrote ... one ... love ... I can't recall in which (psych) journal, but there was an article some years ago, the title of which asked about...
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Carmi Turchick
tribalypredi...
Oct 4, 2004 5:55 am
Lynn, I agree that this issue will be difficult to study in an empirical way in the workplace. Even definitions of what a TT is can vary according to cultural...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 4, 2004 5:56 am
Graeme Deeth ... RKS: This is very true, which is why such loaded words are probably best avoided for use in scientific investigation in the first place. Even...
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Fred Britton
fwbritton
Oct 4, 2004 6:17 am
At 08:43 PM 10/3/04, Jay R. Feierman wrote: The answer to my question does not lie in the etymology of the English "f" word. The question should be re-phrased,...
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Joao Sousa
j.d.sousa@...
Oct 4, 2004 9:29 am
RKS: If we are going to explore the F*** word and its various manifestations we must look for a link between the word as used to denote something that is...
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Andy Lock
a.j.lock@...
Oct 4, 2004 9:31 am
... And then you get mixed expressions such as 'Holy shit!' ... Might it lie in Wittgenstein's use of the term 'grammar'? That ontologies are grammars, in...
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Elka Enola
elkaca
Oct 4, 2004 11:24 am
And then you have to consider my fundamentalist Christian friend who gets furious with me when I say, even, “Oh my god!” but she doesn’t bat an eye when...
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Jay R. Feierman
jrfeier
Oct 4, 2004 11:25 am
Part of the answer to the use of the intercourse word and the excrement word during anger, fear and the deity word during fear and joy might be found in Gilles...
