Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment
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Camouflage, mimicry and crypsis are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and are used by children who feel insecure. A sibling who feels vulnerable may mimic a sibling who appears less vulnerable. Children condition adults. Adolescent inebriety may be a deimatic display or, if persistent, Batesian mimicry. For an adult, survival in a hostile environment requires…
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We are who we are with, or Who’s Drivin’ Your Train?.
altruism, assortativity, bazball, Bion, blushing, Bob Dylan, canalization, clique, cooperation, coterie, cricket, Crown Prosecution Service, Dominance in Vertebrate Broods and Litters, Dunbar’s number, elite, erubescence, experimental design, Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment, Food-Caching Western Scrub-Jays Keep Track of Who Was Watching When, free will, Group decision-making in animals, harassment, hassle, herd behaviour, herd mentality, human parasite, information silo, jargon, job market, Kin preference in a social microbe, less marriages, Libet, Making the Decision To Continue the Fight or To Flee, Manchester United Football Club, marital rate decline, Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC, men’s liberation movement, modulation, module, neologisms, networking, ontogeny of teaching in humans, participant bias, plasticity, premier league football, readiness potential, sect, sexual equality, social distortion, subject bias, The hard work of doing nothing: Accounting for inhibitory costs during multiple action control, the instinct to teach, Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential) The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act, transfer market, vulnerable to spin bowling, Wikipedia: Haplochromis burtoni, women’s liberation, Yorkshire Cricket ClubMembership of organisations may buffer fluctuations in mental health, but the organisations become vulnerable, as shown recently by Yorkshire Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club. Organisations become vulnerable when members talk too much to each other and not enough to those in other organisations. Warning signs are generalisations about other people, for example: “We…
To be or not to be. 