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Humans cooperate because they remember their own fallibility, which is why cooperation increases with age.
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Hamilton’s rule attempts to link costs, c, benefits, b, and genetic relatedness, r. Hamilton’s rule does not apply to spouses, because r is 0. Hamilton’s rule may be true without being relevant. Everyday life tells us that costly benefits are more likely to be given because of expediency, or because of mutuality, than because of…
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Evolution.
A comparative study on parental language used by parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children, autism, canalization, Combined pattern of childhood psycho-behavioral characteristics in patients with schizophrenia: a retrospective study in Japan, corpus callosum, critical comments by important family members, developmental factors, environmental factors, epigenesis, epigenetic, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary fitness, Evolutionary Psychiatry, extinction burst, feed forward, Haeckel’s law, hippocampal place cells, hippocampi, homeostasis, induseum griseum, lateral longitudinal stria, maladaptation, medial longitudinal stria, mental health, mood disorders, neocortex, ontogeny, paranoid disorders, phenotypic plasticity, phylogeny, plasticity, rank theory of depression, schizophrenia, strands of Lancisi, The influence of phenotypic modifications on evolution: the Baldwin effect and modern perspectives, the Pons test, The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution, WaddingtonMost patients with mental illness do not have relatives with the same condition. Phylogenetically, it may well have been true that social groups were stabilised by depressed members, and that families were stabilised by biddable members who passively accepted distortion: ontogenetically, these possibilities need to be tested, with the mental health of group members and…
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Mental mechanisms.
borderline state, denial, depressive position, displacement, dissociation, fantasy, intellectualisation, Melanie Klein, mental mechanisms, paranoid-schizoid position, projection, projective identification, psychic retreat, psychoanalysis, rationalisation, reaction formation, regression, repression, schizoid fantasy, Sigmund Freud, Single-neuron responses in humans during execution and observation of actions, splitting, sublimation, suppression, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological studyMental mechanisms are situational. Mental mechanisms do not have indices of test-retest reliability or of inter-rater reliability. The distributions of mental mechanisms by age, gender, social class, and intelligence are not established.Mental mechanisms may be unspoken, or may be confined to a consultation during which money changes hands. Once other people are involved, the possibility…
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The biochemistry of the unconscious mind.
activation, apocrine glands, auto-brewery syndrome, automatisms, deactivation, denial, Differential Roles of Neuronal Activity in the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas: From Information Retrieval to Motor Planning and Execution, dissociation, dopamine, Double Dissociation of Exteroceptive and Interoceptive Feedback Systems in the Orbital and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex of Humans, Experience-Dependent Neural Integration of Taste and Smell in the Human Brain, fear sweat, gamma-aminobutyric acid, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), gut fermentation syndrome, histamine, hyperarousal, hyperventillation, hypoglycaemia, Impact of Amblyopia on the Central Nervous System, inhibition, Integration of Auditory and Visual Communication Information in the Primate Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex, irritability, Lady Macbeth, low density lipoprotein, mast cells, nervous sweating, postsynaptic inhibition, presynaptic inhibition, repetition suppression, repression, skin rash, somnambulism, stress sweat, suppression, synaptic depression, tetany, the back of the mind, The Paradox of Iridescent Signals, undivided attention, Visual cortical γ-aminobutyric acid and perceptual suppression in amblyopia, William ShakespeareDenial, dissociation, suppression, and repression reduce to inhibition, and thus to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), for example, amblyopia (dim vision). Putting thoughts to the back of the mind, giving undivided attention, and suspension of disbelief, are expressions that imply inhibition, and thus GABA.“Differential Roles of Neuronal Activity in the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas: From Information…
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The physiology of the unconscious mind.
adolescence, birth rate, Cassio, Desdemona, disassortative mating, diurnal variation, Earlier Development of the Accumbens Relative to Orbitofrontal Cortex Might Underlie Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescents, feminism, GnRH, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, Hormones associated with non-maternal infant care: A review of mammalian and avian studies., human oestrus, lunar variation, marriage rate, melatonin, menstrual cycle, mirror neurones, nervi conarii, Othello, overview, oxytocin, peer review, person (mis)perception: functionally biased sex categorization of bodies, phototherapy, pineal gland, prepuberty, prolactin, puberty, seasonal affective disorder, sex differences in brain activation elicited by humor, sleep on it, the human brain representation of odor identification, The post-orgasmic prolactin increase following intercourse is greater than following masturbation and suggests greater satiety, trust, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study, violence exposure is associated with preference for masculine faces: evidence from Senegal, Wikipedia: puberty in tropical countries, winter depressionWe sleep on it, mindful of diurnal variation in what is unconscious. What is unconscious to a male can be conscious to a female, as suggested by “…our great captain’s captain,…”.While it is true that what is unconscious to a male can be conscious to a female, it is also true that what is conscious…
To be or not to be. 