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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations. The book was nominated for the 2003 Aventis ...
Jeremy Griffith (born 1945) is an Australian biologist and author. [1] [2] He first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger.He later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, [3] [4] which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour. [5]
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings ...
The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature is a 2007 book by experimental psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker "analyzes how our words relate to thoughts and to the world around us and reveals what this tells us about ourselves." [1] Put another way, Pinker "probes the mystery of human nature by examining how we use words". [2]
List of scientific misconduct incidents. Appearance. hide. Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research. A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions.
Contents. Criticism of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology seeks to identify and understand human psychological traits that have evolved in much the same way as biological traits, through adaptation to environmental cues. Furthermore, it tends toward viewing the vast majority of psychological traits, certainly the most important ...
W.W. Norton. Publication date. 2006. ISBN. 978-0-393-05948-9. No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality [1] is a book by psychology researcher Judith Rich Harris. It was published in February 2006. Harris attempts to explain why people are so different in personality, even identical twins who grow up in the same home. [2]
The Center for Humans and Nature Press is the Center's independent publishing wing—exploring themes of human interconnection with nature and human responsibilities to the whole community of life. The Center for Humans and Nature Press print publications include the five-volume book series, Kinship: Belonging in a World Relations . [15]