Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Belief in belief, like religion, is a cross-cultural human universal

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 Fascinating open source research reported by Gervais et al. (Open source): Significance   Religion is a cross-cultural human universal, a...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men than to Women

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I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women ar...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

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This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking  ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity , Gemini+ advanced ,  and Anthropic  (which does not off...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures

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I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email, on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselv...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Cumulative human culture began ~600,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene

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An interesting study by Paige and Perreault :   Significance Our species, Homo sapiens, occupies a uniquely diverse set of ecological habi...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Blueprint - Nicholas Christakis on the evolutionary origins of a good society

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This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus “Blueprint” (very...
Friday, May 03, 2024

Can there be scientific criteria for what is moral behavior?

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I want to pass on an essay by Sam Harris updating his 2011 book "The  Moral Landscape."   I'm doing this mainly so that I can...
Monday, April 29, 2024

An expanded view of human minds and their reality.

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I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that t...