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ity. This helps the child acquire a huge amount of information about her surroundings, because the mind is biased to ignore all ...

(normally) leads to something that leads to something ... that builds the "animal" concept. The same is true of other concepts. ...

because they are rare (they could become common) but because they were not part of the conditions prevailing when the relevant g ...

PROGRESS BOX 6: DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIFICITY Inference systems make us attend to partic- ular cues in environments and produce s ...

Our interaction with people depends, obviously, on whom we are deal- ing with. In contrast, our interaction with giraffes, snake ...

Bearers of such genes would tend to have more offspring than non- bearers and some of their offspring would carry these genes to ...

described above). So one could now combine the psychological find- ings with their evolutionary background, a combination that i ...

they gauge the reliability of these partners for long-term cooperation and child rearing.^20 Life in ancestral environments was ...

source of danger transmits the wholeof the risk. In other words, there is no "dose-effect" here. Contagious substances do not lo ...

the-environment. The journalistic cliché that this is the "information age" is misleading if it suggests that in the past, eithe ...

humans can acquire vast amounts of information by direct experience. But the fact is, even that could not be acquired without ma ...

thing that involves four different individuals. Obviously, the only way to produce such complex thoughts is to have infor- matio ...

favorite band, when and where the cover photographs were taken, etc. Or consider the more extreme case of British "trainspotters ...

the rule "If people get their faces scarified then they have a right to eat buffalo," subjects spontaneously check for buffalo- ...

where a certain degree of trust ensures cooperation and mutual benefits. Biologist Matt Ridley coined the term "groupishness" to ...

xYou expect similar dispositions and behavior toward you from other members (and of course not from nonmembers). xAs a result, w ...

PROGRESS BOX 7: EVOLUTION, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL MIND Specific inference systems were tailored by selection for their contribution ...

stand it, in some abstract way, but they just did not "feel" the anger. After a few weeks of driving their own cars in the city ...

As psychologist Endel Tulving points out, episodic memory is a form of mental "time travel" allowing us to reexperience the effe ...

of different objects (e.g., a lollipop and a balloon) if that is what the creators intended.^35 It is certainly useful to reason ...