Johannes Alfons Karl, Ronald Fischer

RITUALS, REPETITIVENESS AND COGNITIVE LOAD

(2018, SMA)

Rigid ritual movement reduces stress, with participants of the experiments in the high stress condition who showed more rigid behavior experiencing a greater reduction in heart rate and diastolic blood pressure.


Annick De Witt and all.

Understanding public perceptions of biotechnology through the “Integrative Worldview Framework"

(2016, SMA)

How worldviews seen thru Integrative Framework Framework (3 types, 5 aspects) may explain complicated public reactions to advanced biotech?


Peter Richerson et al.

CULTURAL GROUP SELECTION PLAYS AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN EXPLAINING HUMAN COOPERATION

(2016, SP)

If cultural transmission constitute an inheritance system that can evolve in a Darwinian fashion, then culture-led gene-culture coevolution may have favored genes that encourage group advantageous behavior.


Adam Rutheford

THE HUMAN LEAGUE: WHAT SEPARATES US FROM OTHER ANIMALS?

(2018, GA)

Why a woman or man from 1,000 centuries ago would fit in perfectly well in any city in the world today but the way we live our lives since then has become ever more complex?


Emily Ogden

DEBUNKING DEBUNKED

(2018, GA)

In the context of some of the stories we tell collaboratively in our relationships with others, the question of lying or truth does not arise.


Patrick Francois et al.

THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN PROSOCIALITY: CULTURAL GROUP SELECTION IN THE WORKPLACE AND THE LABORATORY

(2018, SMA)

Competition between hunter-gathering societies induced selection of group beneficial (prosocial) but individually costly traits and societies with the fitness-enhancing norm/institution combinations proliferated via defeating less successful groups.


Anders Dræby Sørensen

THE PARADOX OF MODERN SUFFERING

(2010, SMA)

The levels of existential suffering and mental distress in developed Western countries have not decreased in line with this political, economic, and social development.