By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellect...
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Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here bec...
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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or ...
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Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modu...
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The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception
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Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable ...
