Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

Interested in human nature. Sharing what I learn. | PhD candidate | Veteran | Website:

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    23 Dec 2021

    The best books I read in 2021 1. Envy by Helmut Schoeck "Envy is above all a phenomenon of social proximity...Envy is always between neighbors. The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks his leg, he will be able to walk better himself."

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  2. 13 minutes ago

    “Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.”

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  3. 1 hour ago

    "wanting is more fundamental than liking. Ultimately, it doesn't matter for the preservation of our genes whether we like sex, or like food. Far more important is whether we want to have sex, and whether we seek out food."

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Ray Bradbury's method for generating story ideas: Writing down nouns ("night," "cricket," "train whistle") and free-associating, exploring what each word brought out in his subconscious

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  5. 3 hours ago

    "Some of our career decisions, based on the desire for money and attention, lead to emotional burnout, disenchantment, and dead ends...by not looking at ourselves in an honest way, and glossing over our own flaws and weaknesses, we become trapped"

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  6. 3 hours ago

    "cohabitants are far more likely than married couples to break up, particularly if they have children. As fatherlessness went through the roof, so did the number of transient men passing through the lives of women and their children"

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  7. 4 hours ago

    "Groups tend to reserve their strongest hostility not for enemies, but for apostates...Keeping the group together is in many cases a more fundamental and urgent goal than accomplishing its stated purpose or defeating its actual external enemies.”

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  8. 5 hours ago

    "our culture tends to fill our heads with all kinds of false notions, making us believe things about what human nature should be like, rather than what they are actually like...We blame other people for our woes when all along the problem is inside us"

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  9. 7 hours ago

    "The Roys meet another billionaire family..The matriarch wears plain, almost Quaker-like clothes—a crisp white shirt, a single string of pearls—that telegraph generations of inherited wealth. They are not ostentatious They have absolutely nothing to prove"

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    2 Dec 2020

    New paper! and I develop a theory of covert identity signaling. We show how covert signals are adaptive in diverse societies and among "invisible" minorities, especially when costs of being disliked are high and when homophily is weak. 1

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    Jan 1

    The gender gap in healthy eating, with women consuming more fresh vegetables than men, has doubled over recent decades in gender egalitarian Finland.

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    19 hours ago

    Yale tells students—all of whom are required to be boosted—that they may not eat at outdoor restaurants.

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    22 hours ago

    A review of 36 studies found a weak but positive correlation between creativity and unethicality. Both creativity and unethicality might "involve rule breaking and nonconformist processes." Creative people might also be better at justifying their actions.

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    23 Dec 2021

    Good Reasons For Bad Feelings by “mood is influenced most not by success or failure but by rate of progress toward a goal.… Baseline mood is remarkably stable for most people, and variations reflect mainly the rate of progress toward a goal”

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  15. 22 hours ago

    "Excuses play an important role in maintaining harmony...excuse-making after questionable conduct not only has the potential to save face for the perpetrator, but to protect the target, who might otherwise be insulted or harmed by the conduct."

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    23 hours ago

    The greatest modern philosopher

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  17. 24 hours ago

    "Psychopathic people will brag outright about their con jobs, conquests, and scams if they think the listener can be thereby impressed with their power. There is nothing unconscious about this process; it is literally shameless."

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  18. Jan 4

    "more than a third of Americans said they felt pain often or very often compared to 19% of people in China, 18% of people in Japan, 13% of people in Switzerland and 11% of people in South Africa."

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  19. Jan 4

    "Humiliation strikes us when we are revealed to have had aspirations and beliefs that are beyond us...If shame is the consequence of not living up to what one ought to, then humiliation is the consequence of trying to live up to what one has no right to"

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  20. Jan 4

    "the idea that the US is the enforcer of a 'liberal world order' makes little sense, as there is no other country that more consistently and brazenly violates the most important rules of international law"

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    Jan 3

    Of all the personality traits, only extraversion was associated with a greater probability of taking sick leave.

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