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focused you on the trait of stubbornness, sending you down a single psychological chute constructed unfairly to confirm my judgment.
Robert Cialdini • Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
researchers working in university departments of psychology were in the grip of behaviourism, which discounted innate or genetic factors,
Anthony Stevens • Jung
his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
We know that we only project our interpretation on a dog whose behaviour is governed by instincts and not reason.
Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob
Darwin’s theory of sexual selection began to explain mating behavior by identifying two key processes by which evolutionary change can occur: preferences for a mate and competition for a mate.
David M. Buss • The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
In species in which males stick by their mates or protect their own offspring, it’s because male brains were slightly modified to be more responsive to oxytocin.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
this tendency is simian in the sense that it is made possible by apes; more precisely, by a certain sort of cognitive development that took place in the apes and, as far as we know, no other animal. The tendency to see the world and those in it in cost-benefit terms; to think of one’s life, and the important things that happen in it, as things that
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