Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making himself look macho and everything else that you could imagine." As for the matter of his sworn testimony regarding the word nigger, Pellicano insisted that Fuhrman, who retired from the force this month and now lives in Idaho, was just confused. "Did you ever hear the term mental block? I mean, when someone asks you a question like that, sometimes you don't-you block out everything except what you think you hear. That's what happened...
...Perhaps the biggest surprise from evolutionary psychology is its depiction of the "animal" in us. Freud, and various thinkers since, saw "civilization" as an oppressive force that thwarts basic animal urges such as lust and aggression, transmuting them into psychopathology. But evolutionary psychology suggests that a larger threat to mental health may be the way civilization thwarts civility. There is a kinder, gentler side of human nature, and it seems increasingly to be a victim of repression...
...getting genes into the next generation was, for better or worse, the criterion by which the human mind was designed. Mental traits conducive to genetic proliferation are the traits that survived. They are what constitute our minds today; they are us, we are designed to steer genes through a technologically primitive social structure. The good news is that doing this job entailed some quite pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism...
...culture and times--that is, about the rest of us. O.J. forced us to ponder the issue of domestic violence, with side trips into Hollywood decadence and the arrogance of male athletes. In the Susan Smith case, though, no one has come up with any grand themes other than mental illness and "evil"--both of which are ways of saying, "This is so unthinkable that we're not going to do any thinking...
Mack, 65, was traveling yesterday and could not be contacted, according to an assistant. He said last year that he does not necessarily believe in space aliens, but thinks that only some unknown traumatic experience--and not a mental illness--can explain his patients' memories...