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However, when the web of interpersonal relations becomes too dense, market competition and impersonal commerce get strangled.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
They intentionally turn off their feelings of sympathy to insulate themselves from patients’ stress. Patients experience these therapists as distant and aloof. The therapists, in turn, become alienated and bored.
George S. Pransky • The Relationship Handbook
Asperger’s assessment of these girls was in the context of his role as director of the Curative Education Clinic in Vienna during the Third Reich. Shockingly, there is strong evidence that this clinic was a core part of the regime’s child ‘euthanasia’ programme.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- Sahlins (1972), p. 37. 21. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/the-exchange-david-plotz.html.
Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultur
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Tribal society produced very few loners, a type that was common among the mountain men.
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
tyranny afoot—in which case the person subjugated has a moral obligation to speak up. Why? Because the consequence of remaining silent is worse.