Feeling someone else’s pain can be more effective for learning than just knowing that they’re in pain. At its core the ACC is about self-interest, with caring about that other person in pain as an add...
Edward Tylor, a distinguished nineteenth-century cultural anthropologist. For him culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities a...
EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in those traits; (c) some of those variants confer...
But in reality the brain is about circuits, about the patterns of functional connectivity among regions. The growing myelination of the adolescent brain shows the importance of increased connectivity.
Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the warrior gene variant of MAO-A, was inevitably fated to be unc...
Level 1: Should I Eat the Cookie? Preconventional Reasoning Stage 1. It depends. How likely am I to get punished? Being punished is unpleasant. Aggression typically peaks around ages two through four,...
Dunbar’s
As emphasized in the last chapter, epigenetic changes can be multi-generational.8 Dogma was that all the epigenetic marks (i.e., changes in the DNA or surrounding proteins) were erased in eggs and spe...