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Source: “Authentic Happiness,” Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., Chapter 3
We are endowed with access to powerful and insistent emotional states. They arise from the deepest and most primitive areas of our brain. They include more than fight or flight survival instincts to take decisive action to kill or conserve; they include the capacity for [...]
Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: Evolution and Gender
Lecture 14 – Psychology, Sex, and Evolution
This lecture reviews what evolutionary theories and recent studies in psychology can tell us about sex and gender differences.
Students will hear how psychology can help explain many of the differences that exist in whom we find attractive, what we desire in a [...]
Lecture 10 – Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
This lecture introduces students to the study of psychology from an evolutionary perspective, the idea that like the body, natural selection has shaped the development of the human mind.
Prominent arguments for and against the theory of natural selection and its relationship to human psychology are [...]
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