evolution… Is anxiety a choice? 2 Feb 201931 Jan 2019 Is anxiety a choice? Is an anxiety disorder a choice? Can a person choose not to be anxious? Last night I had an interesting conversation with a stranger in the…
evolution… Hard-wired 14: Why Freud was almost right 1 Feb 201928 Jan 2019 Although not a fan of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection (he was more influenced by the earlier, Lamarckian evolutionary theory), Sigmund Freud was very nearly right…
evolution… Hard-wired 13: Creationism? Bring it on! 29 Jan 201927 Jan 2019 I was recently challenged to a debate by a creationist who confidently informed me that evolution is a lie, even going so far as to ask me if I knew…
evolution… Hard-wired 12: Know thy enemy 27 Jan 201926 Jan 2019 Nobody seriously can deny that our evolutionary journey, from the simplest chemical compounds to the complex organisms we know as Homo sapiens involved extreme callousness and even casual cruelty. Survival…
evolutionary psychology… Hard-wired 11: Heuristics – our evolved psychological shortcuts 26 Jan 2019 Heuristics are the psychological shortcuts that keep us going in a complex world. They shorten decision-making time and allow us to function without constantly having to stop and think about…
evolution… Hard wired 10: Evolution, human culture and the big brain 9 Jan 20192 Jan 2019 Evolutionary psychology as we shall see, is tightly bound up with culture. To understand the evolution of culture we need first to explain how we developed our big brain. Without…
evolution… Selection pressures 2 8 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 Our series on evolutionary psychology continues with the basic 'nuts and bolts' of natural selection and its impact upon speciation, survival and behaviour (flight, hiding, sexual attraction etc). This necessarily…
evolution… Selection pressures part 1 2 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 What do we mean by 'selection pressure'? Doesn't evolution just happen anyway? https://youtu.be/0ewXtxJsV-g
evolution… Hard wired 7: The evolutionary environment 26 Oct 201826 Oct 2018 What do we mean by EEA? The acronym 'EEA' stands for the 'Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation/Adaptiveness', otherwise known as the 'Evolutionary Environment' or the 'Ancestral Environment'. Originally coined by John…
evolution… Hard-wired 6: Why is anything hard-wired at all? 1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018 Back into the routine with the mental health YouTube channel. Here's the latest instalment of the evolutionary psychology series https://youtu.be/r3HML3nBUz0 Let’s be clear about just what ‘hard wired’ means. After…
