http://popsych.org/some-research-i-was-going-to-do/ The Internet's Best Evolutionary Psycholo-guy Wed, 03 Jan 2018 01:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://popsych.org/some-research-i-was-going-to-do/#comment-441 Now You’re Just A Moral Rule I Used To Know | Pop Psychology Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:42:14 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=518#comment-441 [...] was, a fantastic idea for a research project, hindered only by the fact that someone had conducted a very similar experiment a few years prior to my insight. To those of you unfamiliar with the way research is conducted, this might not seem [...] [...] was, a fantastic idea for a research project, hindered only by the fact that someone had conducted a very similar experiment a few years prior to my insight. To those of you unfamiliar with the way research is conducted, this might not seem [...]

]]> http://popsych.org/some-research-i-was-going-to-do/#comment-328 Aaron Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:26:41 +0000 http://popsych.org/?p=518#comment-328 It could be the brain in the process of training its loss-aversion response to the situation. i.e. when the student takes a loss, some function kicks in that scans for all possible outcomes that could have caused the loss, and since the subconscious does not understand probability, it seeks to put the blame at the feet of the only other possibility; the supposed human perpetrator. This response would serve the student by keeping him away from the situation where resources are at risk, and possibly enrages him sufficiently enough that he bashes the other student with his club and takes his resources. It could be the brain in the process of training its loss-aversion response to the situation. i.e. when the student takes a loss, some function kicks in that scans for all possible outcomes that could have caused the loss, and since the subconscious does not understand probability, it seeks to put the blame at the feet of the only other possibility; the supposed human perpetrator. This response would serve the student by keeping him away from the situation where resources are at risk, and possibly enrages him sufficiently enough that he bashes the other student with his club and takes his resources.

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