We reach our best long-term strategic consequentialist decisions when we engage both reason and intuition, amygdala and dlPFC. Data + gut = best decisions. In 2007, he received the John P. McGovern Award for Behavioral Science, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [45] i137562354 |b190801975169 |daigci |gt |m |h3 |x2 |t1 |i2 |j333 |k210501 |n11-08-2023 20:31 |o- |aQP351 |r.S27 2017 There has never been a better time for Robert Sapolsky's Behave: the Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst to appear. For those as perplexed and conflicted as me about such seismic political events as Brexit and the election of US President Donald Trump, the book helps not only to tease apart the factors that can lead people to behave in ways that seem to make no sense, but also to explain our own reaction. There is no part of the current craziness of the world this book does not touch, from terrorism and nationalism to nuclear posturing and ethnic cleansing… It is brilliant and insightful, lucid and conversational, authoritative, and fair to different points of view. It is the best guide I know of to the vicissitudes of human behaviour, an antidote to sensationalist easy answers… Behave is the antidote to all those pop psychology books that promise the secret of why we do what we do Philip Ball, Lancet Bad barrel theory: the issue is not how a few bad Apples can ruin the whole barrel it’s how about barrel can turn any apple bad.

i109856478 |b1130003546938 |dpc |g- |m231212 |h20 |x3 |t3 |i11 |j2 |k170427 |n10-14-2023 17:19 |o- |a612.8 |rS241Stress can be bad for you. We no longer died of smallpox all the plague and instead die of stress related diseases of lifestyle like heart disease or diabetes or damage slowly accumulates over time. We learn of two types of cultures: collectivist and individualist. China is an example of a collectivist culture, who define themselves by relationships with others and place the needs of the whole above the one. In an individualist culture, like in the United States, people tend to define themselves by their own achievements and like to stand out from the crowd.

Drone pilots, who sit somewhere far-removed from battle, but can blow up a group of men sitting around a campfire just by pushing a button, and watch the whole thing (you know, body parts) on their computer screen, have the same rate of Post-Traumatic Stress as soldiers in the field. Sapolsky describes himself as an atheist. [7] [8] He said in his acceptance speech for the Emperor Has No Clothes Award, "I was raised in an Orthodox household and I was raised devoutly religious up until around age thirteen or so. In my adolescent years one of the defining actions in my life was breaking away from all religious belief whatsoever." [9] Stress: Portrait of a Killer". Stress: Portrait of a Killer. Stanford University, National Geographic. 2008. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 . Retrieved August 25, 2014. Sapolsky agrees with the thesis that our lives have improved, this is a debate of nuance - “Anyone who says that our worst behaviors are inevitable knows too little about primates, including us.”]Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally. There’s the brain-you’re on synapses neurotransmitter receptors brains Pacific transcription factors epigenetic effects dreams transpositions during your agenesis. Aspects of brain function can be influenced by someone’s prenatal environment the genes and hormones whether their parents were authoritative or their culture egalitarian and whether they witnessed violence in childhood and when they had breakfast. It’s the whole shebang.

Yet the question remains: if human beings are simply reactive robots, slaves to natural law who are causally buffeted by a zillion factors of biology and circumstance, why would we have any say in whether things get better? Either they will or they won’t, but on this magisterial account it seems that we can’t really choose to do anything about it. Legalization of abortion led to a drop in crime two decades later. No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legaliz... and also Steven Pinker's critique in Better Angels of Our Nature.Implicit bias tests. Sapolsky uses this literature extensively without criticism. It's not clear it's as useful as people think: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/... i127882443 |b1110011731417 |dmrlan |g- |m |h8 |x1 |t3 |i5 |j300 |k191012 |n10-31-2023 18:24 |o- |a612.8 Sap i117369706 |b1070004264961 |dflgmn |g- |m |h5 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j18 |k171030 |n01-06-2020 19:10 |o- |aQP351 |r.S27 2017 Racism, inequality, and conflict: an interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky". Tehran Times. July 15, 2020 . Retrieved July 15, 2020. aDLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dSFR |dFM0 |dOQX |dILC |dIK2 |dJP3 |dYDX |dTXMAL |dWIS |dVP@ |dJSY |dNYP |dXUN |dXFF |dVLR |dIUL |dOBE |dYUS |dNDS |dMZ5 |dWW9 |dUBC |dNZEPN |dYAM |dIDU |dHV6 |dWLU |dQGQ |dNLM |dZHB |dX#4 |dOCLCQ |dLCX |dOCL |dU3G |dOCLCO |dOHI |dOCLCA

The book does get technical at times; lots of discussion about the role of certain hormones, and the structure of neurons and the architecture of the brain. You can skip over these sec i118412589 |b1100040569359 |dmvfh |g- |m |h8 |x1 |t1 |i6 |j18 |k180216 |n08-24-2023 19:14 |o- |a612.8 |rSAP Increasing cognitive word makes liberals more conservative. The time pressure of snap judgements is a version of increased cognitive load. Likewise people become more conservative when tired in pain or distracted with a cognitive task or when blood alcohol levels rise. Vaughan, Christopher (November 2001). "Going Wild A biologist gets in touch with his inner primate". Stanford Magazine . Retrieved March 15, 2019. However, while the aforementioned techniques all work really well for remembering bits and pieces of a book for example, it didn’t help me to retain all of the key points. So I’ve decided to start writing book summaries, not only to aid my own learning and retention of key pieces of information, but also to help you accelerate your learning.i109966612 |b1060006372716 |deva |g- |m |h11 |x1 |t1 |i6 |j70 |k170511 |n06-05-2023 16:43 |o- |a612.8 |rSAP Sapolsky’s book is a chance to stop and take your breath, an ambitious but accessible introduction to behavioral neuroscience that attempts to understand the headline-grabbing findings by synthesizing across a variety of temporal and biological scales. He begins with momentary and molecular and, by constantly expanding his scope, eventually encloses the cultural and generational in his arguments. His tone is conversational, like you met at a party or a coffee shop and started chatting about the topic with someone who happens to be a world expert accustomed to explaining things to novices. Liberals believe that our best days are ahead of us where is conservatives view our best days is behind us. (‘make America great again’)