{"id":54,"date":"2008-03-11T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/11\/a-little-late-but\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:40:15","slug":"a-little-late-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/03\/11\/a-little-late-but\/","title":{"rendered":"a little late, but.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3554279466299738997\">interesting interview<\/a> with Steven Pinker where he talks about evolutionary pscyhology&#8217;s description of human motives and patterns of behavior. Interesting stuff about kin selection and reciprocal altruism, from a pretty articulate proponent. One question that he raises is whether knowing how the mind works (understanding how we&#8217;re prone to self-deception, how we defer to high-status people, how we&#8217;re driven by sexual instincts, etc) is a blessing or a burden, and whether knowing these things can actually change human behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting interview with Steven Pinker where he talks about evolutionary pscyhology&#8217;s description of human motives and patterns of behavior. Interesting stuff about kin selection and reciprocal altruism, from a pretty articulate proponent. One question that he raises is whether knowing how the mind works (understanding how we&#8217;re prone to self-deception, how we defer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}