Psychology 3139A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nucleus Accumbens, Grey Matter, Amygdala

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3139A/B
• Professor: Karen Hussey

Document Summary

Humans have the ability to get into other people"s minds (theory of mind happens around 4-5 yrs old) Only humans have the ability to deceive. The arms race -- human mind has to be able to detect a false smile, Informs beh, & info we have to gather social influence. Mind reading --it"s super hard to understand fully. Mark pagel language ted talk -- if you can use language for abstract ideas, you have a complex system & can keep competition at bay. Evolved traits -- technology is neither biological nor cultural evolution (very gradual process) Competition: won"t deception become the norm? (as group or indv) Diogenes -- looks for honest man, finds none in greece (lantern) I don"t want to talk to you now, but i still care. I. e. my battery was dead, i have work gtg. Chinese water army (thousands of ppl in china that are paid $ to produce content)