From the Rescuer to the Aggressor – understanding the 10 types of human

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From the Rescuer to the Aggressor – understanding the 10 types of human

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From the Rescuer to the Aggressor – understanding the 10 types of human

"The proposition is that the human brain, and the behaviour emanating from it, has been, much like the human body, shaped by evolution. Acts of the most heinous violence, as well as acts of the most affecting altruism, are adaptive responses to the situations in which our societies and communities were built. The ultra-aggression of a child soldier is his way of inoculating himself against post-traumatic stress (and, in the moment, it works). Dias’s inquiry falls broadly into the field of moral cognition, “this incredible new discipline, putting together psychology, philosophy and neuroscience to map how the brain makes decisions,” he says, which he discovered recently at Harvard."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... d-soldiers
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