How Brain Shutdown Explains Core Support for Trump and Clinton

We’ve evolved a capacity to circumvent rational and independent thinking to maintain social bonds, which explains core support for Trump and Clinton. What a choice! More than 150 million natural-born citizens old enough to be President of ...

Eusocial Coprophagous Diploids – Who is Reproducing?

Troyer (1984) has put forth the insightful hypothesis that sociality among herbivores who digest plant structural tissue has been given impetus by the close contact required to exchange obligate gut symbionts. This article appeared in ...

The Message of Evolution

Did you ever imagine that everything stops existing when you close your eyes … and is recreated just as you open them? It helps to be about 3 years old and stuck on a bench ...

Deceiving Down : Conjectures on the Management of Subordinate Status

From:Self-Deception: An Adaptive MechanismJoan S. Lockard and Delroy L. Paulhus, Eds.Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1988. I am grateful to the late Erving Goffman for encouragement, advice, and inspiration. MAKING THE FOOT FIT THE SHOE ...