270. Biology and Man | Robert Trivers and Dr Jordan B Peterson
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- Jul 14, 2022
- #Psychology
Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. He proposed the theory of Reciprocal Altruism, in a paper that he published in 1971, linked below. Trivers w...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Aug 29, 2023
- Curated in Deceit & Self Deception
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Aug 29, 2023
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“Imagine that a husband comes home with lipstick on his collar and his wife, who sees it, becomes agitated as a consequence. But then refuses to think through what the implications of that might be. And so the self deception is not one fully thought out proposition against another. It’s a fully thought out (or partially thought out) set of propositions about marriage stability versus an emotional queue of uncertain circumstance that had to be unpacked with difficulty. And avoidance of that is tantamount at least to some form of self deception.
She’s got a fleshed out idea of marriage stability and harmony. All she’s got to contradict that is one piece of visual evidence and an emotion. She can hold onto to her pre-existing belief with no work. In order to transform that belief, she’s going to have to do a tremendous amount of exploration and investigation.”
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Aug 30, 2023
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"I acted really badly in that argument. I really hurt my son's feelings. Only a terrible person would hurt someone's feelings. I must be a terrible person. I'm a terrible person. Now and I'm going to be a terrible person in the future and there's nothing that can be done about it.
That’s the sort of thinking that leads to suicide. And you can see the person going down the hierarchy of their beliefs right from from the little argument which is nothing all the way down to something that is so basic to their self-concept that if it's challenged they want to die. That happens a lot into real depression real severe depression"
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