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...Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...
...A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...
...III. SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, AND CONCLUSION. Part 3 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...
...creasing complexity of the wiring of the brain as pregnancy progresses. The latest evolutionary phase in programming is OOPS (Object Oriented Progr... ...are metaphor is useful. Back to Table of Contents Metaphors of the Mind (Part II) Psychology and Psychotherapy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Storytelling has... ...tial theories – they all shared his belief in the need to "scientify" and objectify psychology. Freud – a medical doctor by profession (Neurologist)... ... a crucial matter. Consider the clash - however repressed - between psychiatry and psychology. The former regards "mental disorders" as euphemisms ... ...such as biochemical or electric imbalances) and of hereditary factors. The latter (psychology) implicitly assumes that something exists (the "mind"... ...methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psychology are powerful instruments, admirable constructs of the...
...tion, we have accumulated sufficient experience to understand where Nature’s evolutionary law is leading us. The picture we will gradually present t... ...al stage, as civilization evolves toward compre- hensive harmony. According to evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sah- touris, at the end of the process ... ...e elements unite into a single, harmonious system. She used as an example the evolutionary process of life on Earth. Billions of years ago, Earth wa... ...ality of altruism is our purpose in life. We are pushed toward it by Nature’s evolutionary law through egoism itself. Nature’s purpose is for us to ... ...paths: Chapter Five: Obeying Nature’s Law 89 1. Promoting ourselves in the evolutionary process by recognizing our egoistic Nature as harmful an... ... from pain. In that, there is no differ- ence between us and any other animal. Psychology recognizes the possibility of changing every person’s prior...
...ss before. The hundred thousand books of clichéd thoughts on spirituality, psychology and self-help available today offer you ways that are congenial... ...round was there in me. Then I started exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy, Eastern and Western, mysticism, all the mo... ...y of man now. It has become the enemy of man because the potential of the evolutionary process is thwarted by the culture's creation of a perfect ma... ...lly speaking, the individual is an extraordinary piece of creation by the evolutionary process. So I say that every individual is unique. Whatever i... ... themselves is lost. _______ I can't say there is any such thing as an evolutionary process but there seems to be. What its nature is, what its p... ...me flower, but this end product of human evolution cannot be used by this evolutionary process as a model to create another one. If it throws out on... ...reserve the perfume of that because if you preserve it, it will stink. The evolutionary process or movement is not interested in using the one that i... ...ything possible. You have all these gimmicks—yoga, meditation and all the psychology. Your naturalness is something that you don't have to know. Y... ...s and the unconscious, awareness and the self, is all a product of modern psychology. The idea that you can use awareness to get somewhere psychologi...
...y asking, and what its answer is. Two books by Jung can be very useful: “Psychology and Alchemy” and “The Psychology of Transference”. In addition... ...n, and that it is not an end in itself but is finalized to humanity’s next evolutionary step: to transform oneself into an artist of one’s life and o...
... nation in other areas. They published books on child rearing and feeding psychology. They bought a fleet of baby,sized Austin cars with horns that ... ...aybe God is not finished making you yet? Maybe our whole life is just an evolutionary process. Isn't that what hap' pens with so much of nature? An...
...narcissist, hence my addiction to money (really, to freedom) in all its forms. It is my evolutionary ladder from slime to the sublime – to mastery."... ...age attacks, and transient (stress related) paranoid ideation." Object Relations – The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers - Sam Vaknin http://s... ...ed is also Narcissistic Supply. The main element is attention." Object Relations – The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers - Sam Vaknin http://s... ...cissists in a constant state of deficient Narcissistic Supply." Object Relations – The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers - Sam Vaknin http://s... ...d until the late 1980's. The discussion, analysis and study of narcissism are as old as psychology – but there is a great difference between being a... ...aning in the brutal and indifferent and nightmarish Universe of the torture cell." The Psychology of Torture – Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/...
...JA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality Psychosexual Stages of Develo... ...netic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcissist’s Mother Bor... ...ity of the Defense The Author Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality First published here: "Per... ...s like "hysteria' are intimately connected to female physiology and alleged female psychology. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bibl... ...eaders: Implications for leadership evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 48-59. "Competent women must also appear to be... ...student of his, Wendy Wood, now a professor at the Texas A&M University: "Like (the evolutionary psychologists), Eagly and Wood reject social constr... ...ure - not about emulating it. The more perplexing question remains: what are the evolutionary and biological advantages of recreational sex and h... ...homosexuality and other forms of non-reproductive, pleasure-seeking sex may be key evolutionary mechanisms and integral drivers of population dynam...
...Rosnow (with Fine 1976) explored other parallels between gossiping and marketplace psychology: For example, it might be said that consumers of gos... ...formation before setting out on their sales territories. Two concepts from social psychology are germane to a discussion of communication sources. ... ...how some social prices may one day be measured as the state of the art of consumer psychology is further refined. 65 On the other hand measure... ...w dominates communications research and theorizing. It also bridges a gap between psychology and sociology . 69 Idea Marketing: A Special Ca... ... of group life on the communication process. One, with a long tradition in social psychology , is the notion of commitment (Kisler 1975). Getting ... ...oducts, itself a significant reality to social marketers. Second, it implies some evolutionary alterations of people's value systems and hence in co...
...us Narcissist FAQ # 23: The Narcissist as a Sadist FAQ # 24: Other People's Pain FAQ # 25: The Psychology of Torture FAQ # 26: Multiple Grandiosit... ...ern, Daniel. The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. New York, Basic Books, 1985 31. Vaknin... ...ves to constitute his independence. Why should people indulge the narcissist? And what is the "evolutionary", survival value of preferring one kind... ...reatment. He knows best. He feels superior to his therapist in particular and to the science of psychology in general. He seeks treatment only follo... ...Press International (UPI). Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directo... ...ticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philo...
...les for the Divine Presence to experience and express itself. T is is an evolutionary process. We are already doing it at some level. We need to be...
...ntracting theory" - just serves to demonstrate how divorced economics is from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob bl... ...improve our chances to survive. The communication of emotions is of an unparalleled evolutionary importance and a species devoid of the ability to c... ...reasing complexity of the wiring of the brain as pregnancy progresses. The latest evolutionary phase in programming is OOPS (Object Oriented Progr... ...motionally, intuitively, know" what is meaning and that it exists. If we ignore the evolutionary explanation (a false sense of meaning was instilled... ...nants ("missing links") attesting to each incremental shift – has all but expired. Psychology, on the other hand, has always assumed that the diffe... ...ve mechanisms will go a long way towards rendering corruption obsolete. Note - The Psychology of Corruption Most politicians bend the laws of the ... ...mer wrongly. Put more succinctly: it seems that the famous "reality test" (used in psychology to set apart the "functioning, normal" individuals fr... ...volution, from natural to artificial selection, and from genes to memes? Does the evolutionary process culminate in a being that transcends its ge... ...legal system. Women's rights are being legally as well as informally secured in an evolutionary process, punctuated by minor legal revolutions. 4...
...phy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...He is also grateful to Professor Richard Hicks, Head of the Department of Psychology, Bond University for help and guidance on handling some of the ... ...ional Implementation of a Genetic Algorithm Scheme to Illustrate the Evolutionary Efficiency of Black-Scholes Delta Hedging Using Multi-as... ...ial structured products manufactured out of complex, multi-asset options. Evolutionary superiority of the Black-Scholes function in dynamic hedging ... ...ngineering this type of synthetic portfolio insurance as it has ingrained evolutionary optimality. This is exactly what we have computationally demo... ... given in Appendix (ii). Having computationally demonstrated the evolutionary optimality of a Black-Scholes type expected payoff (utility) ... ...rationalization loop will tend to increase this deviation. As human psychology; and consequently a lot of subjectivity; is involved in the pro... ...e accepts the biological origin of utility forms, any sufficiently robust evolutionary algorithm should show convergence with a Black Scholes type ex... ...on the Likelihood of Discredited Outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 33, 1997: 561-578. De Gooijer, J. G. and K. Kumar. Some recen... ...Dissonance as psychological discomfort. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 67, 1994: 382-394. Fabozzi, F. J. Handbook of Financial struc...
... investors based on their governing risk-return preferences involving financial structured products manufactured out of complex, multi-asset options. Evolutionary superiority of the Black-Scholes function in dynamic hedging scenarios is computationally demonstrated using a haploid genetic algorithm model programmed in Borland C. The work explores, both theoretically and co...
...ity in integrating a sufficiently wide range of evidence for his mental synthesis theory (such as research on language, vision science, neuroanatomy, evolutionary history of primates, and archaeological/paleontological evidence of tool and art creation and usages).” —RICHARD J. HARRINGTON, Professor of Anthropology, Integrative Centers for Science and Medicine “It is w...
...7. Introduction: a quick guide to paleoanthropology 136 Chapter 8. Cognitive evolution through the prism of paleontological evidence 160 Chapter 9. Evolutionary pressure drives better predator detection 191 Chapter 10. Overall Discussion of Part 2 219 Part 3. The “last” mutation 254 Chapter 11. The role of the prefrontal cortex in the process of mental synthesis 2...
...System An Example Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Establishment Of Budd... ... you must take a step to the left into his studies of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, and the structure of the personality. This particular step is n... ...re of that reality. To me this is the goal of religion as much as it is of psychology. We have all been burdened with the task of making whole the wor... ...stion is not “why” but “how” to manage this burden. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION What then is the connection between psychology and ... ...f this imagery traces as far back as the emergence of life from the sea in evolutionary terms. Less fanciful, perhaps, is the observation that each of... ... less relevance. If the function of religion is to express and further the evolutionary tie between human beings and the natural environment in which ... ...ropologists and also early psychologists thought, a primitive level in the evolutionary ladder of the development of thinking, but what for us may be ... ...far from knowing all that exists in the cosmos, much less the de- tails of evolutionary development and the realm of instincts, the archetypes constit... ...cal body. The content of ultimate mystical experience is experience of the evolutionary content of the collective unconscious, what Jung called the “s...
...emnants ("missing links") attesting to each incremental shift has all but expired. Psychology, on the other hand, has always assumed that the diffe... ...rise to black holes? The vanishing masses of black branes delineate a cosmological evolutionary tree - from a universe with one topology to another... ... (images, words, associations). The defence mechanisms, known to us from classical psychology projection, identification, projective identificatio... ...were selected because of previous deformations in the language field. In classical psychology, the terms: "complexes" or "primary repression" are u... ...en, ipso facto, it is normal (or abnormal, but never para or "beyond" the normal). Psychology is the science of human cognition, emotion, and behav... ...ions. They apply with equal force to the social "sciences" (e.g., to economics and psychology) and even to more robust fields like biology or medic... ...s always an agent of conservation, preservation and conformity. Thus, the creative-evolutionary dimension of the now- dead discipline is gone. No ne...
... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social psycho... ...no. She is a delightful lady. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psycho... ...apply that to what I have experienced.‖ --―Throughout the ages, many sages have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psycho... ...let‘s see what I can do to help you. I‘ll have to warn you that I try to go back to the basics as much as I can. There are so many theories in psycho... ... going to behave-- by choosing between our conscience and our more basic sensual pleasures. ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psycho... ... 8 ―It seems that instincts are much stronger as we climb down the evolut...