1445 => violence in the right context is different . We pay good money to watch it in a stadium , we
1686 => , and states , and when these are bad or good things . It is a book about the ways
3979 => The next quote : Normal psychic life depends upon the good functioning of brain synapses , and mental disorders appear
6751 => pure altruism actually exist ? Can you ever separate doing good from the expectation of reciprocity , public acclaim ,
7124 => , but another planet nonetheless . Crimes of passion and good acts of passion make the most sense to us
7449 => expository tastes . Nor will they be labeled as “ good ” and “ evil ” —too hot-blooded and frothy
7505 => and a behavior has happened . Perhaps it is a good act : you ’ ve empathically touched the arm
7543 => , targeting an innocent person . Perhaps it is a good act : you ’ ve pulled a trigger ,
8509 => which MacLean himself emphasized , this model will be a good organizing metaphor for us . THE LIMBIC SYSTEM To
15745 => spent decades studying the hippocampus . It ’ s been good to me ; I ’ d like to think
17235 => ; you ’ ll go to hell ; self-discipline is good ; you ’ re happier when you ’ re
17375 => . Moreover , the frontal mantra of “ self-discipline is good ” when cookies beckon is also invoked when economizing
17753 => . This transition to automaticity also happens when you get good at a sport , when metaphorically your body knows
23604 => pain pathways at the news of the person ’ s good fortune predicted more dopaminergic activation after learning of their
23769 => our world of habituation , where nothing is ever as good as that first time . Unfortunately , things have
23985 => system is bidirectional.88 It responds with scale-free increases for unexpected good news and decreases for bad . Schultz demonstrated that
24264 => scale-free manner over a wide range of experience for both good and bad surprises and is constantly habituating to yesterday
26571 => insanely long times . No warthog restricts calories to look good in a bathing suit next summer . No gerbil
26587 => summer . No gerbil works hard at school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college to
26594 => school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college to get into a good grad school to
26600 => to get into a good college to get into a good grad school to get a good job to get
26606 => to get into a good grad school to get a good job to get into a good nursing home .
26612 => school to get a good job to get into a good nursing home . We do something even beyond this
27512 => ’ s simply not true ; for example , a good neuropsychologist can discern more of what ’ s happening
36042 => Being fearless , overconfident , and delusionally optimistic sure feels good . No surprise , then , that testosterone can
36099 => I don ’ t know why , but I feel good whenever I stand there. ” 8,9 The underlying neurobiology
40895 => . Remarkably , oxytocin made subjects less likely to sacrifice good ol ’ Dirk or Peter , rather than Helmut
44474 => And as stress becomes more severe and prolonged , those good effects disappear ( with , of course , dramatic
46363 => differ in females . Showing that she can match the good old boys when it comes to snappy sound bites
49024 => plasticity . Moderate , transient stress ( i.e. , the good , stimulatory stress ) promotes hippocampal LTP , while
49707 => seems to determine whether the hippocampus interprets the glucocorticoids as good or bad stress.11 Spine number and branch length in
50988 => the work was initially well received , being published in good journals , generating excitement . But within a few
51242 => Nottebohm , a highly accomplished and esteemed neuroscientist , as good an old boy as you get , studied the
52967 => to displace aggression . So what ’ s the subject good for in the realm of this book ? I
55563 => tell them the actual likelihood . Such feedback can constitute good news ( i.e. , something good is actually more
55569 => Such feedback can constitute good news ( i.e. , something good is actually more likely than the person estimated ,
55625 => estimates . Adolescents update their estimates as adults do for good news , but feedback about bad news barely makes
57692 => AND MORAL REASONING By adolescence , people are typically pretty good at perspective taking , seeing the world as someone
58714 => that . My adult frontal cortex may enable whatever detached good I do . The trouble , of course ,
59522 => copies of the genes of individuals , not for the good of the species ( stay tuned for chapter 10
62454 => inequality because of merit or effort or for a greater good ( “ She should play more than him ;
62485 => ) . Some kids even manage self-sacrifice for the greater good ( “ She should play more than me ;
63092 => s nice to think of others ; it ’ s good to be well regarded . Stage 4 . It
63391 => to live with yourself afterward . It recognizes that being good and being law-abiding aren ’ t synonymous . As
63415 => “ Pretty Boy Floyd , ” “ I love a good man outside the law , just as much as
63512 => it can also be insufferable , premised on “ being good ” and “ being law abiding ” as opposites
64415 => kids describe strategies like “ I kept thinking about how good that second marshmallow would taste. ” The problem ,
67746 => produce ; you ’ re less likely to attend a good school or have parents with time to read to
70021 => . . . ) this book , this produces a good adult outcome—happy , emotionally and socially mature and fulfilled
76622 => the entire chapter . Stimulating environments , harsh parents , good neighborhoods , uninspiring teachers , optimal diets—all alter genes
76841 => it hints at how bad outcomes might be reversed and good outcomes reinforced . There is another use . In
76910 => thus that it profoundly matters to provide childhoods filled with good health and safety , love and nurturance and opportunity
80271 => , that boring DNA sequence you inherited isn ’ t good enough . Remarkably , transpositional events occur in neurons
85679 => increase of 701 . Those are pretty similar numbers ; good . And in Alberta ? More than 5,000 .
94166 => successes to intrinsic attributes ( “ I ’ m really good at X ” ) rather than to situational ones
100833 => with other people ? ” ) is at least as good a predictor of health as is objective SES .
101335 => more secession of the wealthy from contributing to the public good . Kaplan has shown , for example , that
103378 => showed that the clarity of borders matters as well . Good , clear-cut fences—e.g. , mountain ranges or rivers between
103390 => clear-cut fences—e.g. , mountain ranges or rivers between groups—make for good neighbors . “ Peace does not depend on integrated
104277 => the consensus is that global warming won ’ t do good things to global conflict . For starters , warmer
104735 => war and valor in battle as an entrée to a good afterlife . Agriculturalists invent gods who alter the weather
108119 => to this point . A behavior has occurred that is good , bad , or ambiguous . How have cultural
108620 => for some , forgotten matriarchies for others . It is good to dream , but a sober , waking rationality
112707 => on of copies of genes through any other route—e.g. , good health , foraging skills , predator avoidance . The
113351 => answer with patrician authority : because animals behave For the Good of the Species . Yes , behavior evolves by
113367 => , behavior evolves by “ group selection ” for the good of the species . This idea was championed in
113404 => Lamarck . *5 Animals don ’ t behave for the good of the species . But what about that wildebeest
113443 => day ? Because he was old and weak . “ Good of the species ” my keister . They pushed
113615 => group selection . Animals don ’ t behave for the good of the species . They behave to maximize the
114568 => toward extinction . This isn ’ t behaving for the good of the species . KIN SELECTION To understand the
117290 => in via that transporter . Strength : it ’ s good at getting food . Weakness : vulnerability to the
121713 => from a male except genes , so they should be good ones . This helps explain the flamboyant secondary sexual
121777 => species A females look for stable , affiliative behavior and good parenting skills in males . This is seen in
122026 => and life span Low High Females select for Parenting skill Good genes Rates of cuckoldry High Low Primates that pair-bond
124005 => is a world away from “ animals behave for the good of the species. ” Instead , this is the
127539 => ’ s caveat that this assumes that contemporary hunter-gatherers are good stand-ins for ancestral ones ) . So humans excel
130267 => result that may not be the most adaptive but is good enough , given the starting materials . Squid are
130298 => miles per hour ) . But they ’ re damn good for something whose great-great-grandparents were mollusks . Meanwhile ,
130917 => if nature has produced something , it must be a good thing . That furthermore , “ good ” in
130924 => must be a good thing . That furthermore , “ good ” in the sense of , say , solving
131165 => these things are in our nature and probably evolved for good reasons . The critics used the “ is versus
132490 => sacrificing Them ( but not Us ) for the greater good . Oxytocin exaggerates Us/Them-ing . This is hugely interesting
132881 => opinion of Them . I guess that ’ s meager good news—at least we resist thinking that people who came
133686 => ill intent . When a kindergarten teacher says , “ Good morning , boys and girls , ” the kids
133712 => world that way is more meaningful than saying , “ Good morning , those of you who have lost a
134753 => an out-group member , Them showing fear might even be good news—if it scares Them , bring it on .
138536 => people who are/aren ’ t knowledgeable about caviar is a good stand-in for a dichotomy about socioeconomic status . As
138591 => American women , built around the stereotypes of Asians being good at math , and women not . Half the
140384 => naturally . And Americans typically view this group as containing good Christians , African American professionals , and the middle
141383 => I would delight in discussing aeronautics with you over some good wine. ” “ Baron , it is an honor
142745 => all races and ethnicities peering in microscopes plus , for good measure , a cheerleader type fawning over a nerdy
144594 => being on the right side and doing both well and good . There are even Us/Thems that I—eggheady , meek
144964 => , ” attempting to maximize this thing called the common good . Furthermore , individuals vie for leadership with differing
145257 => i.e. , the one who gets first dibs on anything good ) was in some manner a “ leader ”
146918 => Specialization of Some Ranking Systems A high-ranking chimp is generally good at related things . But humans can dwell in
147842 => species , attaining high rank is about sharp teeth and good fighting skills . But maintaining the high rank is
148870 => a stressor ; ( b ) lower levels of “ good ” HDL cholesterol ; ( c ) subtle immune
149620 => ) ; ( d ) doesn ’ t differentiate between good and bad news ( e.g. , distinguishing behaviorally between
150088 => to directly supervise lots of subordinates did not predict those good outcomes . This gives credence to executives ’ bellyaching
150757 => leaders , anchored in the unique notion of the common good . What counts as the common good , and
150764 => of the common good . What counts as the common good , and the leader ’ s role in fostering
151712 => struggle among the powerful with differing visions of the common good . Forget liberals accusing conservatives of waging war on
154084 => spies working in the State Department ” is a pretty good demonstration of imagined threat . * The difference in
154950 => conservatives are more likely to think that disgust is a good metric for deciding whether something is moral . Which
159074 => . As he states : “ Any deed , for good or evil , that any human being has ever
159184 => perpetually cited in this literature , “ The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human
163057 => instead actually lead , actually attempt to facilitate the common good . We ’ ve even developed bottom-up mechanisms for
163134 => differing visions of how best to bring about the common good . We tend to come as internally consistent packages
165431 => punishing bad acts . A kid watches puppets , one good , one bad ( sharing versus not ) .
165474 => The bad puppet . Who should gain one ? The good puppet . Remarkably , toddlers even assess secondary punishment
165486 => . Remarkably , toddlers even assess secondary punishment . The good and bad puppets then interact with two additional puppets
169841 => British and Swiss economists . Subjects played a “ public good ” economic game where players begin with a certain
172784 => address the cutting of old-growth forests . Amid the potential good that can come from such shaming , Jacquet also
173602 => the emphasis on ends over means requires that you be good at predicting what the actual ends will be ,
173740 => where it is clear that it ’ s not a good guide for everyday moral decision making . Greene and
174101 => do X in order to accomplish Y seems like a good trade-off in the short run . But in the
174151 => done to me , and there ’ s also a good chance that W would happen , and that ’
175244 => way . Say I decide that it would be a good thing to have pictures here demonstrating cultural relativism ,
175302 => me , most readers will likely resonate with dogs. ” Good plan . On to Google Images , and the
175791 => them relate a time when intuition led them to a good decision or where careful reasoning did the opposite )
175857 => “ Yes , we all agree that cooperation is a good thing . . . but here is why I
175992 => moral dilemmas of resisting selfishness , our rapid intuitions are good , honed by evolutionary selection for cooperation in a
176165 => ” It was a bald-faced lie . Is this a good thing or bad thing ? Well , it depends
176582 => things to a whole other level.37 If there is a good piece of food and a higher-ranking animal nearby ,
177566 => frontocortical . These are people who habitually lie and are good at it ( and typically have high verbal IQs
178316 => . This book ’ s focus is not really how good a liar someone is . It ’ s whether
180448 => . For example , say some baboons flush out something good to eat—say , a young gazelle . The gazelle
182494 => ACC cares about is the meaning of the pain . Good news or bad , and of what nature ?
183022 => ? 17 “ Ouch , that hurt ” is a good way to learn not to repeat whatever you just
184679 => 12—wealthier people are more likely to endorse greed as being good , to view the class system as fair and
187942 => feel bad , but that it can make us feel good , which can in turn encourage us to think
188630 => toward one individual because of a globalized sense of wishing good things for the world . * A handful of
189404 => the presses ; science has proven that it can feel good to do good , complete with activation of the
189407 => science has proven that it can feel good to do good , complete with activation of the mesolimbic dopamine system
189556 => five.53 The question , of course , is why doing good can feel good , which raises the classic question
189559 => , of course , is why doing good can feel good , which raises the classic question : is there
189582 => act that contains no element of self-interest ? Does doing good feel good because there ’ s something in it
189584 => contains no element of self-interest ? Does doing good feel good because there ’ s something in it for you
189867 => purely internal reward of altruism—the warm glow of having done good , the lessened sting of guilt , the increased
190167 => perhaps the rarest form as well . Intuitively , if good acts must be motivated by self-interest , the reputational
190208 => contrast , the motivation to think of yourself as a good person seems a pretty benign one . After all
190343 => other words , the exact same amount of public “ good ” was accomplished in each case , but the
190599 => there is typically dopaminergic activation in the one with the good luck when some of the reward is transferred afterward
190749 => cared for , feeling the warm glow of doing a good thing . And that it is rare to be
191090 => no reason why we should expect ourselves to have particularly good intuitions when aiming to heal this far-flung , heterogeneous
191185 => “ reciprocity ” being evolutionarily inseparable . Better that our good acts be self-serving and self-aggrandizing than that they don
191494 => t represent choosing a “ cognitive ” approach to doing good over an “ affective ” one . The detachment
191552 => problem to worry about . The key is neither a good ( limbic ) heart nor a frontal cortex that
193234 => metaphorically inside something when we are “ in ” a good mood , “ in ” cahoots with someone ,
193790 => of some unlikely disease . Or maybe it ’ s good news : you ’ re going to get your
194658 => posits that being viscerally disgusted by something is a pretty good indicator that it is morally wrong ; implicitly evoking
195220 => disorderly = bad , metaphorically being clean and orderly = good . *17 Just consider the use of the word
195604 => be a moral state as well—cleanliness was not just a good way to avoid uncontrolled diarrhea , dehydration , and
196246 => Many of our moments of prosociality , of altruism and Good Samaritanism , are acts of restitution , attempts to
199048 => . A GLIMMER A goal might be to use the good side of a double-edged sword to cut loose the
199902 => end to the violence of the Troubles and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement laid the groundwork for Republicans and Unionists
211412 => sociality . And most important , because it can feel good to punish , to be part of a righteous
211549 => of dopaminergic reward systems . Punishment that feels just feels good . It makes sense that we ’ ve evolved
212807 => feel up a pineapple to tell if it ’ s good . The sheer luck of the socioeconomic trajectory of
215053 => killed in a hundred days . * This suggests both good and bad news . Compared with the past ,
215201 => . But that doesn ’ t mean they ’ re good . Thus we now consider insights provided by this
215558 => nations , long-distance trade that makes them interdependent is a good deterrent . Cultural diffusion in general ( which includes
217992 => as sustained online relationships—can work a bit as well.20 All good news . Contact theory has prompted an experimental approach
221411 => a colobus monkey and was eating , getting to the good part , when this guy comes by , starts
221548 => , we work well together on patrols—it ’ s probably good if we sort things out . “ So I
223388 => and consume . Forgiveness seems to be at least somewhat good for your health—victims who show spontaneous forgiveness , or
223654 => able to explain why . Thus it ’ s a good idea to recognize the systematic features to our irrationality
228257 => finally shook America ’ s self-perception as a force of good , was the My Lai Massacre . On March
230047 => “ I can use the profits from the investments for good works , ” “ Those people really are so
230591 => a stunning scale . It must be admitted that some good came of World War I—thanks to the subsequent collapse
231260 => ; it was a holiday that stood for peace and good will toward all men . Thus we have the
231494 => spot . What are you communicating ? “ Look how good our guy is . He could have aimed at
234513 => than Wilson , in that I ’ ve had the good fortune of brilliant friends , ones who have been
236234 => charges ? * No , never ! That ’ s good enough for some cell in your spleen or your
246644 => stretch of genes on a particular chromosome . Definitely not good . Finally , there are insertion mutations . During
248403 => wonderfully written—by the anthropologist/physician Mel Konner . To my vast good fortune , Konner was my academic adviser and mentor
248483 => York : Putnam , 2009 ) . 2 . For good reviews of these distinctions , see K. Miczek et
251092 => : 363 ; K. Krendl et al. , “ The Good , the Bad , and the Ugly : An
257838 => Nsci 15 ( 2012 ) : 940 ; for a good review of the entire subject , see : D.
257910 => JPSP 85 ( 2003 ) : 616 . For a good review of how implicit attitudes are studied , see
258996 => “ Images of Eyes Enhance Investments in a Real-Life Public Good , ” PLoS ONE 7 ( 2012 ) :
265596 => Behav 63 ( 2013 ) : 97 . For a good review see C. Bodo and E. Rissman , “
276260 => ) : 1367 ; R. Sullivan et al. , “ Good Memories of Bad Events , ” Nat 407 (
277779 => 2013 ) : 576 . 41 . For a particularly good review , see L. Huesmann and L. Taylor ,
277980 => 2007 ) : 470 ; C. Ferguson , “ The Good , the Bad and the Ugly : A Meta-analytic
288813 => ( 2013 ) : 469 . 3 . For a good discussion of this , see A. Norenzayan , “
291415 => ) : 1480 ; Footnote : B. Maheer , “ Good Gaming , ” Nat 531 ( 2016 ) :
291652 => ) : 1540 ; A. Rutherford et al. , “ Good Fences : The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful
299331 => 814 ; J. Haidt , The Righteous Mind : Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion ( New
301355 => 751 . 72 . A. Rutherford et al. , “ Good Fences : The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful
303579 => K. Dion et al. , “ What Is Beautiful Is Good , ” JPSP 24 ( 1972 ) : 285
304413 => et al. , “ The Political Left Rolls with the Good and the Political Right Confronts the Bad : Connecting
305145 => 47 . J. Haidt , The Righteous Mind : Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion ( New
306757 => . P. Zimbardo , The Lucifer Effect : Understanding How Good People Turn Evil ( New York : Random House
307969 => excellent P. Bloom , Just Babies : The Origins of Good and Evil ( Portland , OR : Broadway Books
308903 => ) . 28 . M. Shermer , The Science of Good and Evil ( New York : Holt , 2004
313110 => “ Do Mirror Neurons Give Us Empathy ? ” Greater Good Newsletter , March 29 , 2012 ; V. Ramachandran
314404 => M. Hsu et al. , “ The Right and the Good : Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and
317498 => ; S. Georgianna , “ Is a Religious Neighbor a Good Neighbor ? ” Humboldt J Soc Relations 11 (
324176 => 372 , 393 , 557 , 633 , 634 public good , 495–96 third-party punishment , 497 Tit for Tat
337206 => in a later chapter . * A reminder—as with all good studies of individuals with damage to particular brain regions
337447 => cortex , where there is no such thing as a good decision , where each choice is worse than the
341892 => words , the contrast between “ bad ” and “ good ” stress ) . * As one additional ,
343163 => have to buy a new one. ” * “ Greater good ” for kids , as at any age ,
343232 => of the divide were willing to undergo sacrifice for the good of their ideological group . * I once received
343695 => . And nothing about the science says that the same good effects of attachment can ’ t be provided by
344494 => don ’ t communicate ; I ’ d be pretty good at just asking the person to be considerate and
348310 => youth , being told that StarKist wants tuna that taste good , not tuna with good taste . * !
348315 => StarKist wants tuna that taste good , not tuna with good taste . * ! Kung speak a click language
348636 => was only then that we started to hear about the good stuff , via her becoming friends with some of
349477 => equally biologically responsible for the children . * There is good evidence that inbreeding was responsible for the demise of
351394 => to birdshit. ” * Pääbo , who is a stunningly good scientist , pioneered the sequencing of ancient DNA ,
352622 => notion that anything that is bad for Them is automatically good for Us : So God appears to all the
352660 => president assembles his cabinet and says , “ I have good news and bad news . God exists , but
352736 => minister of Israel tells his cabinet , “ I have good news and great news . God exists , and
352942 => Arab American writer Amer Zahr . * Examples of “ good alien ” movies include The Day the Earth Stood
353678 => once every few years that the Packers are having a good or bad season , my mood is briefly influenced
357723 => along the lines of “ This is how I do good , ” rather than , say , “ I
357942 => , have been the perfect anonymous interaction . While the Good Samaritan who carried my message and I were anonymous
358028 => Lest we get carried away with ourselves , there is good evidence that some of the most impressive cave paintings
358969 => some Zulu , Sesotho , and English thrown in for good measure . While its existence is intensely moving ,
360132 => religiosity declines . Probably more important , this is a good demonstration that religion sure isn ’ t the only
360921 => In his Nobel address , Cajal managed to muster the good manners to praise Golgi . Golgi , in his