Note to everyone: I have bitten off way more than I can chew as I continue to observe and think about New Bedford, a poor city near to me that is trying to revive itself against multiple challenges. It has gotten me thinking about immigration, self rule, the role of the natural environment, the larger.
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Reflections
Posted by Ann Nicholson
I have just read all the current posts as well as earlier posts. It made for a thought provoking morning for which I am most grateful.
I am thinking of how I maintain the status quo and what it will take for me to move differently. Along side of this, I think of society's response to.
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Jim Edd Jones
June 5, 2015
Nuclear Family Emotional Process, Beliefs, and Learned Nonuse
In nuclear family emotional process, beliefs about self and each other in the family are consistent with the pattern of the emotional process and become self-fulfilling. The phenomenon of learned nonuse is one important part of that self-fulfilling process which intensifies and solidifies.
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Thoughts on altruism
Stephanie Ferrera
David Sloan Wilson has published a new book: Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others. I haven’t yet read it, but I did read H. Allen Orr’s review in New York Review of Books, March 19, 2015.
Orr begins: “Altruism may seem a good thing—unless you.
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Some personal reflections on learning more about mammalian social behavior
I have been curious about the recent studies of mammal social groups. As scientists learn more about mammal social behavior, they gain a more filled-in picture of the animals’ close ties to others in their social group, as well as their allegiance to the group as.
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