Political Science 3366E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Resource Depletion, Water Scarcity, Mikhail Gorbachev
6 Oct 2017
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Box 6. 1: primates aggressive and empathetic: chimpanzees are routinely used to personify different biological conceptions, shown as either aggressive beasts or caring parents reflecting the 2 faces of humankind. This phenomenon raises the question of why people voluntarily reduce the number of their descendants: this change is probably better explained by economic, social and cultural factors than biological ones. Box 6. 2: variations in the study of empathy. Interested renewed in 1970s when high birth rate in 3rd world countries occurred. A biological approach to emotions: another way to study the link between biology and conflict is to look at the influence of biochemical, neurological and endocrinal factors. How an emotion is triggered: we take in information through our senses, the stimuli travel along neurological pathways to the brain, where they are filtered by the amygdala (limbic sys. ) If the particular sense involves ongoing emotional concerns, the amygdala sends it to other parts of the limbic system for processing.
