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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

The Weekend University

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The Atherape and the Prestige Orientation

Most people are flexible, so that would be their starting point. But you would then try to work them into a more pro social frame of mind. We did an experiment on creating a school for rat risk high school students. A lot of these kids became more cro social. They opened up. The reason that they were self serving was not they were like, intrinsically self-serving. To be prosocial is to make yourself vulnerable.

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