Are You Explaining Anger or Cheating?

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When men think about their wives fucking another guy, they this response kicks in. And that response leads to certain kinds of behaviors, like keeping them away from other men so they won't get cuckleted. They don't want to appeal at all to that intentional lair im but then it's like, are you explaining anger then, or are you just saying ones and zeros here and onson zeros there? So what we're saying is that the thing that is giving you your beliefs and desires about this situation, its this mechanism that was selected for us. The tongueyo, is cindy-cindy to me. It’s a bit of Cumb

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.