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- Feb 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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- Timothy Morton's concept of = hyperobject
- can be interpreted as reflections of alienation
- emerging out of rapid cumulative cultural evolution
- that has made our cognitive machinery genetically evolved and adapted to small group living ( within Dunbar's number) over hundreds of thousands of years
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maladaptive to our too-quickly-culturally-evolved modernity
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References
- https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Maladaptive+cognitive+bias
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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belief perseverance
- belief perseverance
- definition
- a cognitive bias in which people encountering evidence that runs counter to their beliefs will, instead of reevaluating what they’ve believed up until now, tend to reject the incompatible evidence
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Confronting facts that don’t line up with your worldview may trigger a “backfire effect,”
- Confronting facts that don’t line up with your worldview
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may trigger a “backfire effect,”
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- in contentious issues, merely presenting facts may more deeply entrench there other's held beliefs
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It can feel like an attack on you if one of your strongly held beliefs is challenged.
- It can feel like an attack on you
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if one of your strongly held beliefs is challenged.
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Comment
- question
- what causes a strongly held belief?
- what makes use feel a threat?
- why does it generate fear in some but not others?
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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people’s desire for sweet and fatty tasting foods.
- example
- people’s desire for sweet and fatty tasting foods
- In ancestral times,
- sugar and fat typically signaled positive nutritional value (Ramirez, 1990).
- Consequently, people’s sensory systems are designed
- to detect the presence of sugar or fat in food,
- and the brain’s gustatory centers produce desirable taste sensations
- when those foods are consumed.
- This would have served our ancestors well,
- facilitating the choice of beneficial and nutritious foods.
- in modern times
- Many foods found in post-industrialized societies
- contain processed sugars, hydrogenated oils, and other additives that enhance the taste of the food
- without adding any nutritional benefits.
- Foods laden with corn syrup, for example,
- typically contain high numbers of calories
- and their regular consumption can result in obesity, diabetes, and other problems.
- Thus, the mismatch between
- the features of ancestral versus modern foodstuffs
- can lead adaptive sensory mechanisms
- to produce maladaptive physiological consequences.
- The desire for sweet and fat foods
- promotes health problems,
- even when this desire operates in a perfectly normal manner
- and would produce health benefits
- in the environment for which it was designed
- example
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Some of the challenges people face today, however, diverge quite a bit from those faced by their ancestors. Such divergences can lead adaptive psychological mechanisms to “misfire” – to respond in ways that might have been adaptive in the past, but that no longer produce adaptive consequences today.
- Some of the challenges people face today,
- diverge quite a bit from those
- faced by their ancestors.
- Such divergences can ,- lead adaptive psychological mechanisms to “misfire”
- to respond in ways that might have been adaptive in the past,
- but that no longer produce adaptive consequences today.
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Psychological adaptations have been designed over thousands of generations of human evolution. The adaptations humans possess today, then, were designed to operate in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, a composite of the social and physical challenges as they have existed for hundreds of thousands of years
- Psychological adaptations have been designed over thousands of generations of human evolution.
- The adaptations humans possess today, then,
- were designed to operate in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,
- a composite of the social and physical challenges as they have existed for hundreds of thousands of years (Bowlby, 1969; Cosmides & Tooby, 1992).
- As such, they may or may not be well-adapted
- for life in contemporary society
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we describe a conceptual framework for understanding adaptive sources of dysfunction – for identifying and combating “adaptations gone awry.”
- we describe a conceptual framework
- for understanding adaptive sources of dysfunction
- for identifying and combating “adaptations gone awry.”
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Each reflects the operation of psychological mechanisms that were designed through evolution to serve important adaptive functions, but that nevertheless can produce harmful consequences.
- Each of these 4 problems
- anxiety disorder
- domestic violence
- racial prejudice
- obesity
- reflects the operation of psychological mechanisms
- that were designed through evolution
- to serve important adaptive functions, - but that nevertheless can produce harmful consequences.
- Each of these 4 problems
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What do anxiety disorders, domestic violence, racial prejudice, and obesity all have in common?
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- What do
- anxiety disorders,
- domestic violence,
- racial prejudice, and
- obesity
- What do
- all have in common?
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- maladaptive cognitive biases!
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mismatches between current environments and ancestral environments
- cognitive biases may cause dysfunction due to mismatches between:
- current environments and
- ancestral environments
- cognitive biases may cause dysfunction due to mismatches between:
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from aggression and international conflict to overpopulation and the destruction of the environment, people display a capacity for great selfishness and antisocial behavior. Can an evolutionary perspective – with its inherent focus on the functionality of human behavior – help explain the occasionally self-destructive and maladaptive side of human nature?
- from aggression and international conflict to overpopulation and the destruction of the environment,
- people display a capacity for great selfishness and antisocial behavior.
- Can an evolutionary perspective
- with its inherent focus on the functionality of human behavior
- help explain the occasionally self-destructive and maladaptive side of human nature?
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