more likely to get angry and violent in the face of frustration and other emotional challenges, whereas the high expressing form builds a child that is walled off, immune to the same challenges. MAOA is crucial not only in long term human development, but also in everyday, ephem...
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to imagine butchering human bodies. Like so many simple claims that go unchallenged, we should be puzzled by this one. We should ask: what’s normal? The evolutionary history of each species’ brain does not provide a complete account of what the brain can do. Consider again a top...
27(4), 623-634; Kurzban, R, Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(26), 15387-15392; Markus, H.R. (2008) Pride, prejudice, and ambivalence: toward a unified the...
To accept DeWall's striking results, it is necessary to accept one connection between self-control and aggression and a second between glucose and self-control: SELF-CONTROL DOWN ~ AGGRESSION UP GLUCOSE DOWN ~ SELF-CONTROL DOWN That aggression often follows from a loss of cont...
Viding, E, Wood, N W, & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Effects of age and MAOA genotype on the neural processing of social rejection. Genes Brain Behav, 9(6), 628-637; Tikkanen, R., Auvinen- Lintunen, L., Ducci, F., Sj6berg, R.L., Goldman, D., Tihonen, J., Virkkunen, M. (2010). Psychopa...
child that he was going to leave the room. If they wanted to eat the marshmallow, they only had to ring the bell. But, as Mischel informed them, if they waited for his return, he would bring them more marshmallows. Mischel took out his stopwatch and recorded how long each child w...
Stapel, D. (2010). Power increases dehumanization. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 14(1), 113-126; Moller, A.C, & Deci, E.L. (2009). Interpersonal control, dehumanization, and violence: A self-determination theory perspective. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13(1)...
The sweetness of control When humans and other animals travel the road to excess, whether for food consumption, violence, power, or sex, it is either because they gave in to an in-the-moment impulsive itch or because a history of losing self-control turned into an addictive habi...
Endnotes: Chapter 3 Recommended books: Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). The Science of Evil. New York: Basic Books. Hamburg, D. (2008). Preventing Genocide. Denver: Paradigm Publishers. Johnson, D. P. (2004). Overconfidence and war. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Kelman, H.C.,...
written words cut the legs out of this account. Eberhardt’s results suggest that apes are associated with the socio-cultural, racial category “Black.” These findings reveal a deep seated, dehumanized representation that is readily triggered even in highly educated people. But pe...
presented in the last section, Eberhardt was also interested in the possibility that if people carry this association around in their head, they do so unconsciously, despite explicit avowals that they are not at all racist. And if they carry this association around unconsciously,...
honey hit to the brain when we shine. There is evidence that schizophrenia is associated with a dysfunctional dopamine system, which might help explain the overconfidence in their beliefs, especially beliefs in powerful religious icons. Winning boosts confidence, which increases...
experiments were related in one way or another to Hannah Arendt’s thoughts about Adolf Eichmann and the fact that good people are capable of horrific things: the banality of evil. Hiding behind every average Joe is a person equipped with an engine of malice. Banality is the veil...