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Explaining our taste for excessive harm Marc D. Hauser Viking/Penguin For Jacques and Bert Hauser, my parents, my friends, and my reminder that life should be lived to its fullest Hauser Evilicious. Front matter 2 Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ⎯⎯ Plato To witness s...

devices that require repair. This allows for cool-headed, rational, and skillful surgeries, while fending off the humanizing emotions of compassion and empathy. This is adaptive. This is a transformation that enables doctors working in war-torn areas or regions afflicted with a d...

Night Flight They say that you can read a person’s feelings on his face. But if so, either I’m a very good actor – the opposite of what anyone who has worked closely with me would tell you – or the journalists clustered in front of me weren’t very good face-readers. They said th...

 60 Years of Investigative Satire: The Best of Paul Krassner Introduction by Andy Borowitz Blurb by Art Spiegelman Click on this for a High Res Photo. What They Say About the Author “Paul’s own writing, in particular, seemed daring and ad...

could “cure” many ailments. Mesmer became highly sought after in Paris, where he would routinely “mesmerize” his followers—one of whom was Marie Antoinette. The King wasn’t buying it, however, and he asked a commission of the French Academy of Sciences to look into the claims. (T...

livered to the government by members of the Black Panther Party,” he told me. Even that didn’t work. The Chinese de- nied the request, and Kaptchuk spent much of the next decade studying in Macau. Today, it is hard to imagine Ted Kaptchuk as a radical, let alone a fugitive. He i...

again, so I had my arms back -- and again, I couldn't seem to control my instinctive struggling. And so he stopped for a moment, held my arms in place, and laid down the law. He knows I very much prefer some kinds of pain over other kinds of pain, so he told me this: "If you wan...

and hard to predict, and there aren't any good medical resources on the matter. Maybe the pain points to something unusual about my constitution. Maybe there's a reason it's harder for me to have orgasms than the "average" woman. But the vaginal pain itself is not overwhelming,...

27(4), 623-634; Kurzban, R, Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(26), 15387-15392; Markus, H.R. (2008) Pride, prejudice, and ambivalence: toward a unified the...

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sexist, or X-ist in some cases than others, either because the individual lacks top down control or because they decide to relinquish it. In parallel with Singer’s work on the relationship between pain empathy and our classification of others as fair-minded cooperators or narcis...

Across the globe, most people in these small scale societies offered some amount of the initial pot. Across the globe, most people rejected really low offers. This shows the universal signature of fairness: an expectation of sharing resources and a no-tolerance view of greed. Cul...

to others are weakening and to motivate the repair and maintenance of the connections to others that are needed for our health and well being as for the survival of our genes (27). Physical pain is an aversive signal that evolved to motivate one to take action that minimizes dama...

the experience of inflicting pain and of receiving pain has cleared the air

Chimpanzees also suffer, experiencing pain from both physical attacks and social loss. But getting angry at something or someone and feeling pain from a physical or social assault are different from getting angry because someone’s behavior was morally wrong, and suffering from a...