explain a puzzle in our lives or to help us through trauma. These stories are narratives that provide new truths by denying particular elements of reality. They represent the mind’s method of filling in gaps, providing justifications for what we can’t explain or wish to explain i...
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Stotting handicaps the individual, imposing a significant cost on the ability to move. But the cost paid is relative to the individual’s condition. Without the cost and the ability to manage it, everyone could stot. And if everyone could stot, the cats would quickly figure out ho...
rewarding experiences. Some actions have benign or even beneficial consequences for the welfare of others, while others have malignant and costly consequences. Exquisite studies pioneered by the American cognitive neuroscientist Kent Berridge have uncovered the core elements of...
who fail to care for their young, cads who have extramarital affairs, and trigger-happy murderers who take the lives of innocent people. What changes in the brain enabled us, but no other species, to engage in promiscuous thinking? To understand what changed in the brain, it is...
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. — Plato To witness suffering does one good, to inflict it even more so. — Friedrich Nietzsche Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. — William Golding Hauser Evilicious. Front matter HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012749
stinger into the brain that causes intense auto-grooming followed by three weeks of lethargy. During this down time, the cockroach turns into a living meal for the wasp’s larvae. *A Brazilian parasitoid wasp of the family Braconidae, lays its eggs inside a particular species of...
Punishment in humans is emblematically promiscuous. We castigate others whenever they violate a social norm, in both competitive and cooperative situations, targeting kin and non-kin. Punishment is doled out by the individual directly harmed and also by third party onlookers. We...
…idually, Defendants. EXHIBITS VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF BRADLEY J. EDWARDS, ESQUIR EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION PAGE Tuesday, March 23, 20010 10:00 - 5:07 p.m. PLAINTIFF'S EX. 1 ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ 211 CRIMINAL COMPLAINT 2139 Palm Beach Lakes; Boulevard PLAINTIFF'S EX. 2 COMPLAINT 239 We...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 I bring to this task a strong and dynamic world view that has been shaped by my life experiences and which has, in turn, shaped my life experiences. In looking back on my life, I am inevitably peering through the prism of the powerful ideology that has provided...
of them. Admiral Luis Maria Mendia, one of the leaders in Argentina’s “Dirty war,” convinced victims to board a plane under the pretext of a freedom flight, and then once in flight, were thrown out of the plane, adding sheer terror to the brutality of their death. Accounts such a...
Earthquakes, viruses, chimpanzees, and some children often cause excessive harm to innocent others, at least if the focus is on numbers and the way in which death arises. The earthquake that reached a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale and demolished the capital of Haiti in 20...
O Schadenfreude On February 15, 1978, a relatively unknown boxer with few professional fights, stepped into the Las Vegas boxing ring and snatched the world heavyweight champion title from Muhammad Ali. Ah, along with his entourage of managers, coaches and fans were shocked, tho...
liking part company, with liking falling dormant due to sensitization, wanting grows in intensity, seeking but failing to find satisfaction. So begins an appetite for violence, one that can turn into a craving. A craving to impress Gazelles on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania...
Chapter 3: Ravages of denial Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. -- George Bernard Shaw In October of 1980, a 39 year old man walked into the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia, having suffered a gun shot to the left side of his skull...
A further parallel between chimpanzees and small scale human societies comes from analyses of two extreme warring societies, the Waorani of New Zealand and the Yanomamo of Venezuela. Though violence accounts for between 40-55% of all deaths in these two groups, attackers appeared...