Endnotes: Chapter 4 Recommended Books Chagnon, N. (1996). Yanomamo. 5th Edition. Harcourt Brace. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. (2009). Worse Than War. New York: Public Affairs. Jones, A. (2010). Genocide: a comprehensive introduction. New York: Routledge. Kiernan, B. (2007). Bloo...
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maladaptive consequences. Brain imaging studies show that different circuits turn on when we lie about long held personal stories as opposed to lies about in-the-moment situations. When we distort reality, either omitting information or twisting it to create a false belief, we ha...
there was significant activation in the nucleus accumbens. They felt an immediate honey hit, joy over the rival’s pain. The higher the activation in this reward area, the more likely they were to choose the option of watching the rival experience pain — like watching a public exe...
devices that require repair. This allows for cool-headed, rational, and skillful surgeries, while fending off the humanizing emotions of compassion and empathy. This is adaptive. This is a transformation that enables doctors working in war-torn areas or regions afflicted with a d...
measure of risk, a factor that both juvenile and adult courts should be using to determine their sentencing, especially the individual’s future dangerousness. Individual differences in glucose metabolism, together with relative differences in brain activity, lead to stable diffe...
sexist, or X-ist in some cases than others, either because the individual lacks top down control or because they decide to relinquish it. In parallel with Singer’s work on the relationship between pain empathy and our classification of others as fair-minded cooperators or narcis...
example, invading another country is not aggressive, but designed as a pre-emptive strike to protect group interests. Moral disengagement enables behaviors that are either immoral, illegal, or counter to deeply rooted intuitive prohibitions against harming others. It is a proces...
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— worth a total of 153.5 billion dollars, were to give up one third of their net worth, they could solve world hunger. On a personal level, they would barely notice this donation. With this knowledge, why should I bother to give a penny? This is one example of apathy regarding ou...
…bled us to feel good about doing bad. It enabled us to incur the costs of punishing others while reaping the rewards of marching to the moral high ground. It enabled us to solve the problem of large scale cooperation with unrelated strangers. This was a fundamental breakthrough i...
haloperidol — a DRD2 dopamine antagonist — helps control aggression in psychotic patients. Guo found that levels of violence were about twice as high for one variant of the DRD2 gene than others, and about 20% higher for a particular variant of the DAT1 gene. These genetic varian...
dehumanization, and self-deception which each have both beneficial and toxic personalities, so too does globalization. Globalization has integrated developing countries into the global economy and allowed them to profit from new resources and advances. But globalization has also...
When Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John Bobbitt’s penis, she fulfilled her desire to harm another. She carried out this gruesome act despite the moral and legal sanctions against it. But she did not plan this act in advance, and nor did it occur in the heat of the moment, tr...
At birth, newborns preferentially listen to their native language over a non-native language. Soon thereafter, infants prefer to listen to their native dialect over a non-native dialect, and look longer at their own race than another race. This shows that they can discriminate be...
What seems most critical to the pathology is the lack of control which leads to repetitive lying over a long period of time. Compared with run of the mill liars, pathological liars often seem unaware that they are lying and do so many times a day as part of their daily habit. In...