Psychologists and biologists who study the phenomenon of revenge from an evolutionary point of view will acknowledge that the impulse for taking revenge is pervasive in human societies, but will also add that this impulse is constrained, and has its costs. It is natural to have feelings of revenge, but to act on those feelings may cost inclusion in the social group. But vengeance towards someone outside one’s group is another matter.
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The Global Urgency of Everyday Empathy [VIDEO]
This video has been going around for the past month or so. It took me awhile to get to,.. (because its 16 minutes long). But plenty of people I really … [Read full article]
‘Group Intelligence Factor’ Revealed, Social Sensitivity is Key
Psychologist have long-recognized a general intelligence factor, known as ‘g‘, that correlates individual performance on cognitive tasks (how a person does on one test strongly predicts his/her performance on another … [Read full article]
Positivity (Cool Your Green Mind Monday)
Working on or caring about environmental issues is not like working at an amusement park — you get a lot more negative news than fun and games. But focusing on … [Read full article]
NASA Shrink Offers Insight on Plight of Trapped Miners
NASA adviser and UCSF psychiatrist Nick Kanas, writing in an op-ed in Monday’s NY Times, lists the crucial factors needed to maintain good mental health in isolated, confined spaces for prolonged periods of time, based upon space and extreme habitation psychological studies…factors which will become more crucial to the Chilean miners as time passes.