“There's a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can't be true" challenges neuroscientist Abigail Marsh.
We all do this maybe in a lesser degree of course. As a child not getting your way, you want an ice cream or so. The other extreme is never to allow your needs. Never been really heard. How do you test that? Especially woman who are at least in the -60-80’s supposed to do what ever someone else wants you to do.
We are neither caring nor not-caring, we are neither kind not cruel. Studies will never arrived at a consistent or reliable conclusions about many of the behaviours we try understand about people psychologically. And this is because we're looking at the whole thing the wrong way up.
Very interesting. It's sad that psychopathy, like personality disorders, is not very amenable to treatment. But it's good to know that rats are altruistic--amongst themselves. Altruism does seem to be highly selective sometimes.
Human behavior is the most complex thing in the universe.
We all do this maybe in a lesser degree of course. As a child not getting your way, you want an ice cream or so. The other extreme is never to allow your needs. Never been really heard. How do you test that? Especially woman who are at least in the -60-80’s supposed to do what ever someone else wants you to do.
We are neither caring nor not-caring, we are neither kind not cruel. Studies will never arrived at a consistent or reliable conclusions about many of the behaviours we try understand about people psychologically. And this is because we're looking at the whole thing the wrong way up.
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Very interesting. It's sad that psychopathy, like personality disorders, is not very amenable to treatment. But it's good to know that rats are altruistic--amongst themselves. Altruism does seem to be highly selective sometimes.