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ss) * On lalling throughout history: Wrangham, R.W. & Glowacki, L. (in press). Intergroup aggression

r, including cases where society at large also suffers. Smith initiated the study prior to the US Presidential elections in 2004 involving Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry; during this period, the Republicans controlled both executive branches of the government. Each subject — all college undergr

party. Next, every subject read and provided reactions to short newspaper articles describing tragicomic moments for the two candidates, one in which Bush fell off his bicycle while riding, and the other involving Kerry wearing a bizarre space outfit during a visit to NASA. Last, subjects read and react

ser, Bryce Huebner, Ann Jon, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Errol Morris, Philip Pettit, Steven Pinker, Lisa Pytka, Richard Sosis, Fritz Tsao, Jack Van Honk, and Richard Wrangham. My agent, John Brockman...not only a great agent but a wonderful human being who supported me during challenging times. My editors at Viking/Pengu

individual differences, and normality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 94, 74-85; Cushman, F., Knobe, J., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2008). Moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments. Cognition, 308, 281-289; Haidt, J., & Baron, J. (1996). Social roles and the moral judgment

d to foreseeable atrocities. Sometimes our desires are toxic, as when we plot to extinguish a culturally distinctive group. On one reading, President George W. Bush may well have initiated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as retaliatory attacks on terrorists, designed to protect American interests and well-being.

nctive group. On one reading, President George W. Bush may well have initiated the wars in Afghanistan a

physical health benefits, including evidence that distorted optimism can slow disease progression. Positive illusions are, as noted by the biologists Richard Wrangham, Robert Trivers, and Dominic Johnson, a form of self-deception with considerable evolutionary benefits. But like the runaway capacity of desire, so t

urrounding province and then Sunnis over Shia. Since he was willing to kill others on a large scale-200,000 Shia slaughtered when the idiotic first Bush allowed Saddam to retain his Airforce after we had marched to Bagdad after flinging Saddam's troops out of Kuwait Or for that matter, Saddam's atta

s for other reasons. But I side with Peter in feeling that male self-domestication is more important in damping male psychopathy than female choice—Richard Wrangham vs Sarah Hrdy among evolutionary anthropologists. «I don't think scientists should have aversions to hypothesis. They should be cool analysts of d

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gist, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative Vanessa Woods, Primate Reseach Scientist, Duke & Central Africa Steve Wozniak, Cofounder, Apple Computer Richard Wrangham, BioAnthropologist, Harvard Shing-Tung Yau, Mathematician, Harvard Juan Zarate, National Security Expert, CSIS Anton Zeilinger, Physicist, Vienna

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ginia Naomi Wolf, Social Commentator, New York Nathan Wolfe, Biologist, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative Steve Wozniak, Cofounder, Apple Computer Richard Wrangham, Bio-Anthropologist, Harvard Itai Yanai, Professor of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of =echnology Shing-Tung Yau, Mathematician, Harvard Anton

surrounding province and then Sunnis over Shia. Since he was willing to kill others on a large scale—200,000 Shia slaughtered when the idiotic first Bush allowed Saddam to retain his Airforce after we had marched to Bagdad after flinging Saddam's troops out of Kuwait. Or for that matter, Saddam's attac

aps for other reasons. But I side with Peter in feeling that male self-domestication is more important in damping male psychopathy than female choice-Richard Wrangham vs Sarah Hrdy among evolutionary anthropologists. <<I don't think scientists should have aversions to hypothesis. They should be cool analysts of dat