Beschreibung:
Bringing together a host of exciting new scientific discoveries from the fields of neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, attachment theory, and social psychology, The Good Life aims to help us make sense of good and evil.
Introduction. Primed for goodness. Attachments and helping others. How empathy and altruism grow. Why stress can make us nasty. Impulsiveness, self-regulation and aggression. Cold aggression, callousness and psychopaths. A battle between emotion and reason. Hormones of cooperation and competition. Evolved to both cooperate and compete. Moral games. Group minded and narrow minded. Reputations, shaming, gossip and punishment. Consumerism, society and our divided brain. Conclusions.