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Half of Emotional Expressions Are Universal; 25% Are Culturally Specific
“Across these five different cultures, China, India, Japan, Korea, the U S really different cultural systems. About 50% of any expression that an individual would admit is this universal expression, you know, where if you get embarrassed, you turn your head awa…”
Wealthy Individuals Are More Likely to Cheat and Drive Aggressively
“Our studies show fitting this power abuse hypothesis that if I'm from the well-to-do and, you know, or feeling I'm from the upper class I'm less likely to attend to people carefully when they're speaking. I in an experiment, I'm more likely to lie and say I go…”
Machiavellian Tactics Succeed in One-Shot Deals but Fail Long-Term
“There are measures of Machiavellianism, and you, if you're a Machiavellian, you know, and you lie and manipulate and don't mind really harming people to rise in power, you'll do well in one-shot negotiations, but for the most part, you don't do too well in ris…”
Historical Average for Human Maternal Breastfeeding Is Four Years
“Through breastfeeding, which, you know, the human average across history is four years of skin to skin contact and the provision of nourishment and the oxytocin that's released and the prolactin that is this oceanic feeling of connection that's foundational.”
Darwin Believed Sympathetic Communities Flourish Better Than Ruthless Individuals
“We have this notion of Darwin as being founded on survival of the fittest. And it's the strong and the nasty and the manipulative and the Machiavellian who thrived in evolution. And Darwin didn't believe that at all. And in fact, he anticipated a shift in evol…”
UC Berkeley Lab Links Extreme Compassion to Vulnerability to Mania
“We've done work in my lab on people who show a lot of hyper connectivity and compassion to others. And you know, they tend to fit a profile of being vulnerable to mania”
Social Darwinists Distorted Darwin to Justify Victorian Racial Superiority
“What happened is how the social Darwinists after Darwin, used his thinking, and what they did, as is characterized in this really important book on social Darwinism by Degler, is they said, hey, there's this English scientist who says, you know, we can explain…”
Early Hunter-Gatherer Societies Maintained Collaborative, Horizontal Power Structures
“The best, most reliable data on hunter-gatherer societies, small groups, 75 people, we evolved in these groups for 200,000 years, was that power was collaborative, it was distributed across people, and it was kind of horizontal. It was hard to, there weren't r…”
Brain Scans Reveal Privilege Actively Dampens Empathetic Neural Activation
“Keeley found that if I come from a place of power and privilege, and I listen to my friend, those regions of the brain aren't activated, right?”
Charitable Donations Activate Brain Reward Circuits Similarly to Receiving Gifts
“Investigators at the University of Oregon led by Harbaugh and colleagues showing that if I give money to charity, it activates the reward circuits of the brain, much as if I receive that gift.”
Half of Scientists Were Creationists When Darwin Published Evolution Theory
“At the time that Darwin published his theory of evolution, 50% of scientists were creationists.”
Research Shows Average Young Siblings Squabble Six Times an Hour
“Judy Dunn found, for example, the average siblings, two little beautiful, you know, laughing two and four year old siblings are fighting with each other six times an hour, right? So every 10 minutes they get into a squabble, or they're wrestling, or pulling ea…”