Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolutionary psychology. Show all posts
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...
Friday, March 01, 2024

The Hidden History of Debt

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I pass on this link from the latest Human Bridges newsletter, and would encourage readers to subscribe to and support the Observatory's...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

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I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al. titled "‘Our Roots Run...
Monday, July 17, 2023

MindBlog's reading list.

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I've decided to pass on links to articles I have found worthwhile reading , realizing that I am not going to have time to frame their id...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The psychological illusion of "The Good Old Days"

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Mastroianni and Gilbert (open access) do a nice study illustrating that the the universal perception of our ongoing moral decline is a psyc...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Multilevel cultural evolution - new theory and practical applications

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I want to point to a exceptionally lucid and well written expostion by David Sloan Willson et al. and pass on the opening paragraphs of the...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

An evolutionary psychology perspective on the politics of leadership

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Thomas Edsall does another of his scholarly analyses, this time putting Trump as the wannabe alpha male in a larger evolutionary context. I ...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Can a theory of events-in-time - our future history - ever be crafted?

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I first drafted this as I usually do to pass on clips that attempt to extract the core points from a fascinating brief piece by Venkatesh R...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Market exposure and human morality

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In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society, and specious claims that we can't have a moral socie...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Third-party punishment by preverbal infants

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From Kanakogi et al. : Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality

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MindBlog receives articles for commentary from the Cambridge University Journal of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I will pass on the followi...
Friday, April 08, 2022

Humans don’t have culture because we’re smart, we’re smart because we have culture.

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The title of this post is a sentence taken from the final paragraph of Henrich's Perspective article in Science on the work of Thompson...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Expression unleashed: The evolutionary & cognitive foundations of human communication

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I'm passing on the abstract of a dense but interesting article by Christophe Heintz and Thom Scott-Phillips that will be published in B...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Children universally across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways

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From Kanngiesser et al. in PNAS: Humans, as compared with other animals, create and follow conventional norms that determine how we greet ...
Monday, November 01, 2021

What the mind is - similarities and differences in concepts of mental life in five cultures

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From Weisman et al. , who do a fascinating study of cognitive structures 'from the bottom up', allowing data to give rise to ontolog...
Friday, October 01, 2021

Can we get human nature right?

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Iris Berent does an interesting Perspective artice in PNAS that considers the strong intuitions that laypeople hold about human nature. Pe...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Evolutionary models of financial markets.

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Levin and Lo's introduction of a PNAS special issue on evolutionary models of financial markets is an interesting read. A few clips: ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Seven nuggets on how we confuse ourselves about our brains and our world.

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In a series of posts starting on Nov. 27, 2020 I attempted to abstract and condense the ideas in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 2017 book “How Emot...