Robert Trivers quotes

Darwinian social theory gives us a glimpse of an underlying symmetry and logic in social relationships which, when more fully comprehended by ourselves, should revitalize our political understanding and provide the intellectual support for a science and medicine of psychology. In the process it should also give us a deeper understanding of the many roots of our suffering. (Robert Trivers)

People are often unconscious of some of the mechanisms that naturally occur in them in a biased way.

Robert Trivers

Let me give you another, the way in which group membership can entrain language-usages that are self-deceptive. You can divide people into in-groups or out-groups, or use naturally occurring in-groups and out-groups, and if someone's a member of your in-group and they do something nice, you give a general description of it – "he's a generous person".

Robert Trivers

But it's exactly the other way around for an out-group member.

Robert Trivers

Robert Trivers

Occupation: American Biologist
Born: February 19, 1943
Quotes count: 4
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