Evolutionary Psychology
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:William H. Calvin

RATIONAL argument alone often cannot overcome those who simply and passionately believe. Yet logic is often bent and distorted in the service of those belief systems; it can even override ...
( Category: Neurology February 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Robert Melillo;Gerry Leisman [Leisman, Robert Melillo;Gerry]

CORTICAL-SUBCORTICAL CIRCUITS AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS In considering how cerebellar, thalamic, or basal ganglionic dysfunction may lead to depression or mania, it has been proposed that it is the result of ...
( Category: Neurology August 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...
( Category: Social Aspects January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-08-26 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

Beginning with Ashley Montagu in 1952, thinkers with collectivist sympathies have tried to eke out a place for unmeasured generosity by invoking group selection, a Darwinian competition among groups of ...
( Category: Personality March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

* * * HOW TIT FOR TAT FEELS TIT FOR TAT's strategy — do unto others as they've done unto you — gives it much in common with the average ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Clive Thompson

Ambient Awareness_ Who cares what you ate for breakfast? That question has become a cliché of Internet criticism, the go-to response to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Robert Wright

Chapter Thirteen How Jesus Became Savior For many Christians, the word “Jesus” is virtually synonymous with the word “savior.” God sent his son so that, as the New Testament puts ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Frans de Waal

Pointing Primates Nikkie, a chimpanzee, once showed me how to manipulate attention. He had gotten used to my throwing wild berries across the moat at the zoo where I worked. ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |pt | 2010-08-15 | Author:Richard Wrangham

So however hard a man labors to produce food, in hunter-gatherer societies his rights to the food are a matter of communal decision. A man follows the rules, even if ...
( Category: Paleontology March 24,2014 )