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Geoffrey Miller
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Evolutionary psych professor; wrote some books. Into the deep past & far future, esp. genes, minds, civilizations, sex, freedom, families, & Effective Altruism.

New Mexico
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    Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 22

    Maybe psychology would make better progress if we all just stopped doing 'research' for a year and read all the classic novels & great books that we should have read in college. Compile & systematize their insights rather than ignoring the accumulated genius of history.pic.twitter.com/iYpFB2wxUW

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      2. Coffee is for closers‏ @Beersforopeners Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly

        I am always very worried when I hear people say things like this. It makes your field sound very unscientific.

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      3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 22
        Replying to @Beersforopeners

        Arguably we've been trying to be too 'scientific' -- and yet here we are in the midst of our replication crisis....

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      4. Nick‏ @nickmjow Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly

        @nntaleb has made a similar argument which is to use texts from the ancients and pair that with psych research

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      5. Coffee is for closers‏ @Beersforopeners Oct 22
        Replying to @nickmjow @primalpoly @nntaleb

        Further reason not to do it.

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      2. Pomo Apostate‏ @PomoApostate Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Is literary analysis not taken seriously as a component of research in psychology departments?

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      3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 22
        Replying to @PomoApostate

        LOL, literally. I've _never_ heard a researcher give a talk that started 'We thought this was a cool insight from famous novelist X, and we decided to test it....'

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      4. Pomo Apostate‏ @PomoApostate Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly

        My work asks if literature can supplement clinical accounts of family violence. But I'm pretty weak on the clinical side of things. Anyways, this is a great topic.

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      2. The Stoic Emperor‏ @TheStoicEmperor Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Co-signed. Jane Austen was a great evolutionary psychologist.

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      3. Asteri‏ @MmeBear7 Oct 23
        Replying to @TheStoicEmperor @primalpoly

        "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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      2. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ a bear‏ @sisyphustweeted Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly @CHSommers

        Former prison psychiatrist and peripatetic curmudgeon Theodore Dalrymple wrote a whole book (along with countless other essays) on that very point.pic.twitter.com/Oum7r24dXV

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      3. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ a bear‏ @sisyphustweeted Oct 23
        Replying to @sisyphustweeted @primalpoly @CHSommers

        The title “Admirable Evasions,” FYI, is an allusion to King Lear: “an admirable evasion/Of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish/Disposition to the charge of a star!”pic.twitter.com/UQpJgDiSGL

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      1. Keith‏ @CynicCentral Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly @Cernovich

        You make a point similar to @jordanbpeterson (I think.) We've spent a few millennia federating a lot of human wisdom about what works. Chucking it all to run with the latest pet-rock theory from post-modernism seems sketchy at best

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      1. Joshua D Phillips‏ @JoshPhillipsPhD Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Agree. 100%. My students homework for Wednesday is : check out one great book from the Western Canon and bring it to class. No reading. No writing. Just check out the book and know it exist

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      2. Clinically Sane‏ @Tweetsintoabyss Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Harold Bloom is an excellent place to start.

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      3. Clinically Sane‏ @Tweetsintoabyss Oct 23
        Replying to @Tweetsintoabyss @primalpoly

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Canon:_The_Books_and_School_of_the_Ages …

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      4. Clinically Sane‏ @Tweetsintoabyss Oct 23
        Replying to @Tweetsintoabyss @primalpoly

        Literature is the best place to discover depth of culture. (second maybe to direct interpersonal interaction). It facilitates a depth of experience. Bloom said that modern people's emotions started as Shakespeare's thoughts.

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      1. Richard5832‏ @richard5832 Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        "Henry wrote novels like a psychologist while William wrote psychology texts like a novelist."https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199503/oh-those-fabulous-james-boys …

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      1. Nagato Dharma ฿‏ @NagatoDharma Oct 22
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        Yo, wow didn't expect to see Henry James books on twitter. I've read The Turn of the Screw, plus amazing movie adaptation in 'The Others'. Portrait of the Lady nice soundtrack by Wojciech Kilar. This tweet made my day, thank you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVLUWfpXEE …

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      2. jerryhat‏ @jerryhat Oct 22
        Replying to @primalpoly @CHSommers

        Rejecting the past and learning - the same things - but from their own mistakes is what kids do. It wasn't a problem until they were all given the platform of social media, it was just kids learning to become mature adults.

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