Explaining schizophrenia, anorexia or autism by proposing ways they might offer advantages is tempting but almost always wrong. Diseases are not adaptations shaped by natural selection.
@awaisaftab.bsky.social talks evolutionary psychiatry with Randolph Nesse:
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What makes us hate waiting so much?
A better understanding of how circumstantial factors (unpleasantness, blameworthiness) and personality traits interact can help with the design of waiting spaces an the planning ahead for anticipated waiting:
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Hoe kan één enkele lagekostenluchtvaartmaatschappij het marktaanbod grotendeels reduceren tot het minimum minimorum?
Met de medeplichtigheid van klanten en concurrenten.
Mijn @apache_be stukje, Al ‘ziggend’ naar de bodem:
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Origami? Super cool.
But nature got there first—some of the ancient Japanese paper folding tricks evolved in animals long before humans discovered them:
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Not so immature—while less common than in childhood/adolescence friendships, “immature” exclusion and clique behaviour, do occur in close adult friendships too (possibly involving (perceived) sexual interest), research by Williams et al suggests:
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Victims of deception *settle* on a false answer to a question.
Sapir and Haas argue this account more clearly distinguishes ‘inquiring’ and ‘settled’ states, thus explaining better than competing perspectives why scepticism makes deception harder:
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There is growing evidence that the gut microbiome responds to the compounds in coffee, and new research suggests moderate drinking of either caffeinated or decaf coffee can be benefit both psychological wellbeing and digestive health:
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via @psypost.bsky.social
Post-operative delirium is a (mostly) temporary side effect of the general anaesthetic, especially in elderly patients.
New research links the phenomenon to subsequent cognitive (notably memory) decline:
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A single supplier adopting an uncompromising low-cost strategy can only lead to a race to the bottom if abetted by customers, and by competitors who ‘zig’ along, copying the strategy, rather than to ‘zag’ and differentiate:
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The reason why an economy is difficult to evaluate is that it is bigger than you think, and that is because most things—including our own life and the world itself—are bigger than you can imagine.
Fun and incisive by Scott Sumner:
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