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  The Sorriest Animal: Why We Seek Forgiveness | Scientific American

  Investigators explore how to use an apology effectively. (...) According to Duke University psychologist Mark Leary, the feeling of being disliked, ostracized or rejected was specially designed by evolution to be particularly painful; subjectively speaking, being evaluated negatively by others ...

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  Why Group Norms Kill Creativity | PsyBlog

  Unfortunately groups only rarely foment great ideas because people in them are powerfully shaped by group norms: the unwritten rules which describe how individuals in a group 'are' and how they 'ought' to behave. Norms influence what people believe is right and wrong just as surely as real laws, ...

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  How storytelling shaped humanity - Review: On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, cognition and fiction by Brian Boyd | New Scientist

  English professor Brian Boyd does acknowledge that stories need both creators and audiences, and he analyses their different evolutionary roles. Taking a cost/benefit approach, he argues that the process of creating a story may be expensive in terms of time and energy but is intrinsically ...

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  Altruism’s Bloody Roots | Wired Science | Wired.com

  A computer model of cultural evolution and between-group competition primed with data taken from studies of mankind’s hyperviolent early years suggests a bloody origin for a celebrated modern behavior. “Altruism will be strongly favored if it leads groups to win wars,” said Sam Bowles, a Santa ...

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  Warfare, culture and human evolution

  Warfare, culture and human evolution People are altruistic because they are militaristic, and cultured because they are common. At least that is the message of a couple of new studies TWO of the oddest things about people are morality and culture. Neither is unique to humans, but Homo sapiens...

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