Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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World-renowned neuroscientist and Stanford professor Robert M. Sapolsky encourages us to embrace the multifaceted explanation of why we act the way we do. In his book, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, he details the influences on our behavior. He includes those that happen seconds before, such as neurological responses, to thousands of years prior, such as the genetics that hardwired our brains. Sapolsky, Robert (May 9, 2017), The biology of our best and worst selves , retrieved March 20, 2018 i110294981 |b1010002199021 |das |g- |m |h3 |x1 |t0 |i1 |j18 |k170623 |n08-28-2023 17:26 |o- |aQP351 .S27 2017 i110032950 |b3482600208700 |dsrnf |gn |m200116 |h18 |x0 |t0 |i13 |j18 |k170517 |n12-18-2019 18:02 |o- |a612.8 SAP

I finished this yesterday, but I had to stop first and catch my breath before writing a review. This was a whirlwind, a high-speed ride, exercising my amygdala mightily. No book I’ve read, at least this year, has challenged me the way this one has. And not just the science, which I will largely forget in its details soon enough. More so, the intellectual challenge was in questioning almost everything I believe. i110412461 |b32104000117511 |dpran |g- |m231130 |h14 |x4 |t1 |i6 |j2 |k170707 |n01-23-2023 22:03 |o- |aSCIENCE / Biology One for the single lads: Heterosexual women prefer the smell of high testosterone men (so Google “how to boost your testosterone” now. Or at other points, he talks about studies I am unfamiliar with but because he's sacrificed his credibility on studies I do know a bit about, I don't trust his interpretations. I think to myself, "hmmm, that sounds suspect." iOnline version: |aSapolsky, Robert M. |tBehave. |dNew York : Penguin Press, 2017 |z9780735222786 |w(DLC) 2017006806 |w(OCoLC)972640222

Increasing cognitive word makes liberals more conservative. The time pressure of snap judgements is a version of increased cognitive load. Likewise people become more conservative when tired in pain or distracted with a cognitive task or when blood alcohol levels rise. i118051477 |b1030003323514 |dcml |g- |m |h2 |x0 |t0 |i3 |j18 |k180103 |n12-10-2021 18:20 |o- |aQP351 .S27 2017 Brain activation is actually different for the two groups when viewing a picture of themselves. Someone from an individualist culture will experience more brain activity when viewing a picture of themselves than of a relative, while a collectivist will not. It also changes the way they take in sensory information. When an individualist is shown a picture of a person standing in a complex scene, they will remember the details of the person, while a collectivist will remember more details from the scene.

For the same reasons, it is unclear how much value there is in the author’s uplifting exhortations to think more carefully about our actions, and even to imbue politics with a new kind of science-based “peaceology”. Perhaps the idea is that such encouragement will be a new part of the causal chain affecting each individual’s behaviour, so compelling his readers to act more sociably. In which case I hope this book sells several billion copies.Racism, inequality, and conflict: an interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky". Tehran Times. July 15, 2020 . Retrieved July 15, 2020. Sapolsky, Robert M. (2007). A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (reprinted.). New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-9036-1. Steve Pinker failed to take things one logical step further in his book Enlightenment Now. He didn’t correct for different durations of events. He compares the half-dozen years of World War 2 with 12 centuries of the middle age slave trade! When correcting for duration as well as total world population the top 10 most violent wars now include World War 2, World War 1, the Russian Civil War now and another 20th Century event that didn’t even make Pinker’s original list, the Rwandan genocide. What a wonderful book! It is a comprehensive look at all types of behavior, from the magnanimous to the hideous. It is filled with stories that heighten the reader's level of engagement. The book is long, yes. But not overly long. Sapolsky's subtle humor and little bits of light-hearted sarcasm fill the book and make it fun to read.

After the initial year-and-a-half field study in Africa, he returned every summer for another 25 years to observe the same group of baboons, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He spent eight to ten hours a day for approximately four months each year recording the behaviors of these baboons. [15] Career [ edit ] Sapolsky in 2009 As wide as it is deep, this book is colorful, electrifying, and moving. Sapolsky leverages his deep expertise to ask the most fundamental questions about being human David Eagleman, author of Incognito Stress: Portrait of a Killer". Stress: Portrait of a Killer. Stanford University, National Geographic. 2008. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 . Retrieved August 25, 2014. Reese, Hope (October 18, 2023). "A Conversation With: Robert Sapolsky Doesn't Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)". The New York Times . Retrieved October 22, 2023. At home with: Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky; Family Man With a Foot In the Veld, By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, New York Times, APRIL 19, 2001Bad barrel theory: the issue is not how a few bad Apples can ruin the whole barrel it’s how about barrel can turn any apple bad. From an early age, in both sexes and across cultures, attractive people are judged to be smarter, kinder, and more honest. We’re more likely to vote for attractive people or hire them, less likely to convict them of crimes, more likely to dole out shorter sentences. Remarkably, the medial orbitofrontal cortex assesses both the beauty of a face and the goodness of a behavior, and its level on one of those tasks predicts the level during the other. The brain does similar things when contemplating beautiful minds, hearts, and cheekbones. And assumes that cheekbones tell something about minds and hearts. i109966624 |b1060006372958 |deve |g- |m |h5 |x0 |t1 |i1 |j70 |k170511 |n11-02-2023 16:16 |o- |a612.8 |rSAP

I have previously published an article on learning how to learn in which I detailed some of the different methods I use to retain more of what I consume which included techniques like typing out the notes I highlight in a book, incorporating what I’ve learned into a blog post, otherwise teaching others what I’ve learned and best of all, applying what I’ve learned.Have you ever wondered to yourself, “why did I just do that?” Or have the actions of others left you similarly puzzled? Finding out exactly why humans do the things we do is difficult. No one facet of science explains why we act the way we do. This is why if we want to explain human behavior, we must adopt an interdisciplinary approach. For example, I don't know much about neuro-imaging studies. About them Sapolsky says "These studies are difficult to pull off, as neuroimaging is as much an art as a science." When I read that, and when I've spent half the book hearing him talk confidently about lots of problematic studies, part of me wonders "hmmm, so are neuro-imaging studies garbage? Should I just skim this chapter?" I don't know! Sapolsky’s book is a chance to stop and take your breath, an ambitious but accessible introduction to behavioral neuroscience that attempts to understand the headline-grabbing findings by synthesizing across a variety of temporal and biological scales. He begins with momentary and molecular and, by constantly expanding his scope, eventually encloses the cultural and generational in his arguments. His tone is conversational, like you met at a party or a coffee shop and started chatting about the topic with someone who happens to be a world expert accustomed to explaining things to novices.