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The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics
As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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March 9, 2023
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The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention
A better metaphor for economics is that of a giant organism continually reacting to and also modifying its own environment.
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March 7, 2023
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Some Pessimistic Advice to an Aspiring Economist
The core assumption in modern economics is highly flawed but it can be hard to find anyone in economics departments willing to acknowledge it.
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March 2, 2023
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Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Introduction
This series of essays is a catalyst for change in the economics profession and how it is taught to the next generation of economists.
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February 28, 2023
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Where Do Librarians Fit in the Effort to Improve Mental Immunity?
Misinformation is an epidemic and librarians are the frontline workers.
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February 21, 2023
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Building Mental Immunity
Education will play a central role in strengthening the mental resilience of current and future generations.
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February 16, 2023
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A Tribalism Vaccine
At the core of human adaptation is the solution to the riddle of how a human mind, which was crafted to work with people we know, evolved the instinct to work with people we don’t. But there was a cost, and the result was a seemingly intractable paradox embedded in humanity’s moral compass.
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February 14, 2023
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Are Some False Beliefs Good For You?
Some psychologists champion what they call ‘positive illusions’, mild misapprehensions about ourselves that are conducive to health and happiness
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February 9, 2023
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Mental Immunity, The Group Mind, and Existential Fear
As a highly social species, humans have an evolved tendency to favor the ‘in-group.’ This trait significantly impacts our immunity, or lack of it, to false or harmful information.
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February 7, 2023
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Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”?
New research suggests there may have been Darwinian mechanisms behind the evolution of witch-hunting phenomena.
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January 19, 2023
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The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology
Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and information chaos.
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January 12, 2023
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Evolving My View on Mental Immunity
After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished friend, my more deeply ingrained worldview now appears to be casting doubts upon it.
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January 10, 2023
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Changing A Belief Means Changing How You Feel: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Immunology
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Finding Purpose in Evolution Education: A Conversation with Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
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March 6, 2020
PsychTable.org: A Digital Classification Table of Human Evolved Psychological Adaptations. A Conversation with Niruban Balachandran and Daniel Glass
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February 26, 2020
Evolution Doesn't Make Everything Nice: A Conversation About Primate Societies with Joan Silk
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January 29, 2020
Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk
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October 21, 2019
Peter Gray on Education as a Biological Phenomenon, Learning from Hunter-Gatherers, and Letting Children Lead
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
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Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses
James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his day and these insights are present in his novel. To explore this link, we can begin by looking at the most direct references to evolution science. Amidst the range of references to cultural figures in Ulysses, Charles Darwin makes a number of appearances, most notably in the fourteenth chapter, Oxen of the Sun.
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