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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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December 15, 2022

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Bad Ideas Recruit the Mind’s Immune System to Protect Themselves

Some bad ideas get past a mind’s defenses and then hijack the mind’s immune system. These bad ideas recruit the mind’s defenses to protect themselves, even if that recruitment ends up harming the mind that hosts it.
Barry Mauer
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December 13, 2022

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The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity

Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.
Josh Compton
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December 8, 2022

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Cultural Immune Systems as Parts of Cultural Superorganisms

When the concept of 'organism' is expanded to include groups as organisms, the concepts of both “mental” and “immunity” can be seen in a new light.
David Sloan Wilson
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December 6, 2022

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The Science of Mental Immunity Has Arrived

The emerging field of “cognitive immunology” may hold solutions to our world’s growing disinformation problems.
Andy Norman
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November 30, 2022

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The Nordic Third Way: A Conversation with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun

The Nordic nations are identified as exemplars of good governance, which avoid the excesses of both centralized planning and laissez-faire capitalism.
Nina Witoszek
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November 17, 2022

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Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin

Our emergence as a species and the last ten thousand years of human history demonstrates how positive cultural change has taken place.
Peter Turchin
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October 31, 2022

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Introducing the ProSocial Commons Book Club

The only thing more pleasurable and instructive than reading a good book on your own is being able to discuss it with others!
David Sloan Wilson
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October 26, 2022

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What Happened to Selfish Genes?

Dawkins himself calls Agren's book "the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered...he gets it right."
David Sloan Wilson
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October 25, 2022

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Evolution of Responses to Homelessness to Reach Functional Zero

Rosanne Haggerty has been working with others to end homelessness since 1990.
David Sloan Wilson
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October 25, 2022

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Hylo: Prosocial Coordination for a Thriving Planet

Technologies are products of the culture in which they emerge, and they guide the emergence of new cultures.
David Sloan Wilson
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October 24, 2022

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Introducing the ProSocial Commons: The Next Generation

The ProSocial Commons is for anyone who wants to further our mission to "consciously evolve a world that works for all.”
David Sloan Wilson
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October 23, 2022

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Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones

Systems scientist, cultural historian, and futurist Riane Eisler will address the urgent question of why despite some forward movement, there have been so many regressions to authoritarianism, violence, and domination worldwide.
David Sloan Wilson
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What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren

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Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

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Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson

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Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten

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November 2, 2020

Human Nature at Work with Andrew O'Keeffe

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November 2, 2020

The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin

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November 2, 2020

Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby

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Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi

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September 2, 2020

[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

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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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