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The Adapted Mind & Evolutionary Psychiatry

Volume · 10 passages

  1. Substantial preference on the part of young children for savanna over all other biomes.

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  2. Prospect refers to having a grand view, an overview, as it were of the landscape. Refuge refers to having a safe place to hide, a place from which one can see without being seen.

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  3. Dominance is signaled in day-to-day life through a variety of nonverbal gesture recognizable cross culturally.

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  4. Low dominants smile more often, less likely to infringe on another’s personal space, and more likely to look away from the gaze of others, eyes downcast.

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  5. Submissive tend to exhibit a drawn in, slouching posture, dominants tend to have an upright bearing, shoulders straight and head through back, and to move with a general ease and freedom of body movements.

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  6. Traditional societies look to their healers for authority, or charisma, attention to their symptoms and personal history, knowledge of their condition, and the power to provide restoration to health.

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  7. Women are sexually attracted to men who displace traits that are reliably correlated with Social dominance. Size and physiognomy, social traits such as kinship relationships and political alliances, individual behavioral traits, such as self-confidence, body language, and aggressiveness.

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  8. High dominance Personality

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  9. Bright, initiating, self-assured, decisive, muscular, assertive, persuasive, and ambitious.

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  10. Psychotherapy is so ancient that it has a prior claim to be designated as the oldest profession. It is a form of social grooming which probably arose out of the care-givining/care-receiveing aspects of the parent-child bond.

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