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. View quote
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". View quote
Robert Trivers
But it's exactly the other way around for an out-group member. View quote
Robert Trivers