If it's all genetic does it make any more sense to get mad at a person who commits a crime than it does to get mad at a hurricane?
Freud: 'Early trauma shapes personality & causes evil' Behavior genetics: 'Nope. Psychopathy is largely heritable.' Hollywood screenwriters: 'But supervillain origin stories will be so much more _story-like_ if we go with Freud....'
-
-
-
If it's all trauma does it make sense to get mad at the person? Same issue regardless of your causation model.
- 3 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
We also have no grasp of the extent to which such traits are epigenetically malleable, so both statements can clearly coexist as for now, not to mention the presence of genes linked to psychopathy is only indicative of a risk, be it high or low.
-
Epigenetics is massively oversold and mostly irrelevant to psychological traits.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
laziest reading of both disciplines possible lol
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Can *both* things not be, to some extent, true here?
-
the nature-nurture "debate" has always been a false dichotomy.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Uh huh. You definitely can't tell stories about tainted blood and noble blood and stuff. Just dramatically impossible.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I’ve been in mental health field for 20yrs. Never met anyone with a common mental health condition (CMHD) (depression;GAD;OCD;PTSD) who would have been at low percentile on trait Neuroticism - what’s your view on that and what it says about nature/nurture and CMHDs Prof?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
To make movies cohere with behavioral genetics villains origin stories will have to go back millions of years
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.