SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Baby Food, Hard Wired, Endorphins
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Not enough time to do these grooming rituals: humans then developed language. We care for others and allow them to reproduce. Multitasking has made us individually less intelligent. Increases the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline: creates fog because it releases the wrong type of endorphins. The ability to feel another person"s pleasure or pain. Movies evoke emotion hard wired to do so: altruism. Helping others even though you don"t benefit yourself. Sharing (i. e. jelly beans: sense of equality. Aversion to inequality makes us feel bad. Causes fights, conflict, murders and is disruptive to society: sense of morality and fairness. Engrained in brain cells tied to mirror neurons if we feel bad for the pain for others with get morality: emotion we are not rational. Rational most reasonable way to obtain goal. Emotional decision justified by a rational information.
