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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 13

    What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/10/12/what-are-we-like-10-psychology-findings-that-reveal-the-worst-of-human-nature/ … via @researchdigest

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      1. Peter Nosko‏ @PNosko Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        This is a refreshing change from your usual optimism. 👍

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      1. Robert Poon‏ @RobP299 Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        Interesting read. I’ve always wondered how culture mediates our neural systems to display such diverse behaviors in humans. Maybe we are programed for malevolence but change is certainly possible. I wonder if brain science will possibly help explain the varieties in behaviors?

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      1. Natalia Govsha‏ @NataliaGovsha Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        controversial article... how many people - so many opinions ... as well in science ... I'd like to know a bit about the author and the researchers...about their inner world

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      1. Tony McGahan‏ @tonymcgahan Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        Primitive primates evolving. We are as we are.

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      1. Carl Sagan‏ @demon_haunted_ Oct 13
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        Avoidable human misery is more often caused, not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. #CarlSagan #demonhauntedworld

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      1. ῭Spooky Primate΅  💀‏ @PalePrimate Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        We're only a few hundred thousand generations removed from the earliest Homo Sapiens, and a few thousand generations removed from a tribalistic "Lord of the Flies" reality. Can't expect those aggressive tendencies to vanish overnight. Let's keep trying.

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      2. Michael Flynn‏ @Mjfl92 Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        do we really admire the rich? I've found a much more common behavior is to be resentful towards wealth and resilient against conceding any success as anything but luck...

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      3. Gina Riggio‏ @andthenshewrote Oct 13
        Replying to @Mjfl92 @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        "resentful towards wealth and resilient against conceding any success as anything but luck" - I think the admiration we feel is possibly less conscious, a point made later in the article about being motivated by envy rather than admiration.

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      1. Gabriel Winocour‏ @gwinocour Oct 28
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        The entire oeuvre is blinkered..

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      1. Sebastián Garaviño‏ @_SebasGara Oct 14
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        @EhAveMariaOme Vea, ome.

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      1. Susan Carroll‏ @SueHolywood Oct 14
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        We? Speak for yourself. I'm adorable - the rest of you need to take a good look at yourselves!

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      1. alanpater‏ @alanpater Oct 13
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        ooch

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      1. Paul‏ @_Paul_Roach Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        I’m gonna go with “wait and see” with a whole bunch of social and behavioral claims for a bit. Feeling a bit burned by replication issues😂

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      2. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        in'69 i came across Life mag 25 yrs anniv of Nazi camps. been reading abt Holocaust,especially survivors' memoirs Wiesel, P Levi. Watched Shoah all of it ,thrice over. Hardest is not the killings. Dead r dead, nothing will bring them back. Hard part is lack of regrets...

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      3. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 13
        Replying to @tuduylinh @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        from nazis and from neighbors who turned in their jewish neighbors. from H Arendt i read all stats abt which countries have highest jewish % killed . Nazis success depended on neighbor betraying neighbors. after all nazis don't know who is who. neighbors do. So that during WW2 ..

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      4. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 13
        Replying to @tuduylinh @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        you'd say, well, then in 70s there is Khmer rouge , in 90s there is Rwanda genocide n Yougoslavia disintegration and then Isis... Read book making case Rwanda killings is all abt resources competition ie farmland. So you have killings for resources,religion,politics ..

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      5. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 13
        Replying to @tuduylinh @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        Primo Levi killed himself for a damn good reason imo :despair. That said ,the "we" in the article I understand is not the "majority we ". But there is enough latent % of pop during any period that could be incited by the right sort of agitator(s) for these horrible acts ...

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      6. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 13
        Replying to @tuduylinh @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        to occur again. After all i believe they r selected by darwinian competition for survival. tribalism, jealousy, lack of introspection etc ... help survival. only in Hollywood movies do kindness,selflessness ... win.

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      1. Robert Hampton‏ @sillynotabsurd Oct 13
        Replying to @sapinker @ResearchDigest

        You say "worst." I say AWESOME!!! See? I'm an optimist! :D

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