Pascal Boyer

@PascalBoyerUSA

Evolutionary Psychology, Cultural evolution... To find out, read Minds Make Societies

Joined August 2017

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  1. Jan 10

    ... But, b/c it is collective action, in many places that socialized oppression will (thankfully) unravel ...

  2. Jan 10

    Hi - this might be relevant... in some places, monitoring and oppression of women as a public good [!] ... 1/2

  3. Jan 8

    ... and another one: One obstacle to understanding human minds is that we anthropomorphize humans. See why that is bad in and the rest of the book

  4. 30 Dec 2018

    When I said that social theory concepts like norm, power, do not provide explanation, I was sent to Coventry. "Will you define 'explanation'?" [!] So, courtesy of Steven , here's a good example...

  5. 10 Jul 2018

    Good (and funny) discussion of what happens when a field (like psych) has no theory --> tends to test everything in random directions, and has to become obsessed with statistics rather than processes. See

  6. 16 May 2018

    Minds Make Societies (The Book!) IS OUT: . Brief outline: How our evolved minds explain human societies. Says : “The best book yet on ... how the intellectual contributions of individual people shape the cultures of societies”.

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