Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #evopsych, aggregated by home.social.
"It is no accident that one of Epstein’s favored disciplines was evolutionary psychology, with its explanations for male dominance, justifications for male aggression, legitimizing of female submission and connections to the race “science” in which Epstein was also interested."
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-academic-justification-for-male-supremacy/
@RadicalAnthro #evopsych guys need to learn basic methodology, the whole field is just bullshit. In theory it doesn't have to be bullshit, but most of it is: "how can we prove our assumptions about human nature with convoluted quantitative studies that are built to confirm them".
On Mental Adaptations And Modularity Of Mind — H. Clark Barrett interview
https://youtu.be/_jGJfPDQXlo
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evoPsych #psych #psychology
Are Some Diseases Adaptations?: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings — Randolph Nesse interview
https://youtu.be/o29wuO0AJUA
#biology #cognitiveScience #diseases #evolution #evoPsych #psych #psychology
The Signaling Functions of Beliefs, and Self-Deception — Eric Funkhouser interview
https://youtu.be/vvWvyRASv-s
#biology #beliefs #cognitiveScience #deception #evolution #evoPsych #psych #psychology #selfDeception
Infant Social Learning — Maleen Thiele interview
https://youtu.be/Votz88W3PZA
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evoPsych #psych #psychology #socialLearning
I'm not saying all evolutionary psychology is bullshit - I'm just saying I've yet to hear of any that wasn't...
"We contend that evolutionary psychology now provides predictions and powerful ways to interpret findings about the differences and changes in human cultural preferences (e.g., for romance158, 159, e.g., for horror160)"
“Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It”
“To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.”
By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01
Alt-URL: https://archive.is/jTEZa
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych #psychology #psych
“Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It”
“To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.”
By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01
Alt-URL: https://archive.is/jTEZa
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych #psychology #psych
“Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It”
“To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.”
By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01
Alt-URL: https://archive.is/jTEZa
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych #psychology #psych
“Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It”
“To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.”
By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01
Alt-URL: https://archive.is/jTEZa
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych #InvisibleGorilla #psychology #psych #TheInvisibleGorilla
“Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It”
“To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive.”
By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01
Alt-URL: https://archive.is/jTEZa
#biology #cognitiveScience #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych #psychology #psych
😯 A couple bees opening a bottle of Fanta 😯
Mind-Control —
When the parasite Toxoplasma Gondii infects a mouse it makes the mouse less fearful & more exploratory
This makes it more likely that the mouse will end up eaten by a cat and in the cat's belly, where the parasite can sexually reproduce
The mouse's behaviour is an adaptation — not for the mouse but for the parasite
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719316699
#extendedPhenotype #mindControl #parasites #zombies
#toxoplasmaGondii #toxoplasmosis
#biology #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych
Nietzsche’s will to power is misleading (even if not singularly interpreted) similarly as Dawkins’s selfish gene. While our understanding of N’s meaning is still in progress, we deny the bio-evolutionary implications. Certainly hoops could be jumped through to spin the claim but we’d argue the desire for power, however favorably portrayed, is secondary or tertiary to other more biological, rather than psychological, drives. #Nietzsche #philosophy #biology #psychology #evolution #evopsych
"Blind natural selection, however, makes them behave rather as if they were purposeful, and it has been convenient, as a shorthand, to refer to genes in the language of purpose." (Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
Our current moral anti realism theory, in part: Our blind and ignorant evolutionary natures makes us believe and behave as if some things, actions, and behaviors are ethical and some are not. 1/2
#philosophy #ethics #science #evolution #evolutionarypsychology #evopsych #psychology
@rmkelly 2/2 Long short, I take the compassionate POV of crime and violence, that they are due to "mental disorders" & need treatment. Rationally and logically, to harm, oppress, or exploit others is a symptom of disease. #evopsych @philosophy #philosophy
@rmkelly I approach our sense for justice (moral culpability) from an evolutionary psychology POV. We are hardwired by evolution to seek justice by an irrational process and in a reality where kill or be killed prevailed. It is not fully natural to be rational and logical. #evopsych #philosophy @philosophy 1/2
What do you call the metaethical position that says morality is an evolved trait that helps humans coordinate at scale, and so good/evil is to the group roughly what pain/pleasure is to the individual?
#philosophy #morality #metaethics #ethics #moralphilosophy #evopsych