How does our evolutionary past shed light on how we think, feel, and behave in the present?
Michael McCullough is an experimental psychologist who is concerned primarily with the evolutionary and cognitive underpinnings of human sociality. He was one of the first scientists to take an interest in interpersonal forgiveness and to develop tools for studying it experimentally. He has also innovated experimental approaches to studying gratitude, revenge, prosocial behavior, religious cognition, and intertemporal choice. Additionally, he has worked in recent years to help clear up scientific puzzles about self-control and the social effects of a hormone known as oxytocin.
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The Kindness of Strangers
How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
“A fine achievement. McCullough expertly braids together the distinctive strands of evolutionary psychology, history, and philosophy to explore and explain a characteristic unique to our stage of development: kindness to strangers. An important book that looks at the whole of human history, and more, and thereby offers a valuable counterweight to the all-to-common view that everything is getting worse.”
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