A fascinating essay on runaway consumerism by @paulbloomatyale, with some insightful critiques of my signaling theory of consumer trait-signaling in 'Spent'.https://twitter.com/BostonReview/status/1089934884838297605 …
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@paulbloomatyale overlooks here is how signaling selection pressures could have shaped human sensory responses, aesthetic preferences, interests in provenance, & learnability of associations between product features, brands, status, & attractiveness.1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
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Agreed. I'm not yet convinced that the psychological mechanisms I'm most interested in--such as a strong focus on object origin--could have arose through signaling pressures ... but it's a very cool hypothesis.
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I've tried to do this in my writings on evolutionary aesthetics ; see my http://primalpoly.com website
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