May I address your question about morality as it applies to human beings?
Once I read Mary Trump's memoir about her Uncle Donald, I realized that the family dynamics, as determined by the patriarch, told us all we need to know about Trump's immorality. In this case, I don't know if it could have been passed down through DNA or was simply a result of modeling.
Love this video and it's very popular with my students. DerWaal is working in the context of naïve interpretations of Darwin that all organisms are selfish. Much work like his as well as theoretical work shows that's not true. Some of my work and that of many others shows that altruism and self-interest are common in humans and that both predict, in opposite directions, concern with environment. A key addenda is scope of concern. Nearly everyone cares about family, but people vary in how large a group they care about and how that is defined. This allows for bias and polarization and is manipulated politically. For more on animals see animalstudies.msu.edu.
As to how to bring about change, finishing a very academic book partly on that. Short answer, norms matter . Norms are what you think others think and do, what you think they think you should do, what you think you should do. So modeling and encouraging fairness and altruism. Again, huge research lit. On Google Scholar you can look for Linda Steg or Wesley Schultz or me.
May I address your question about morality as it applies to human beings?
Once I read Mary Trump's memoir about her Uncle Donald, I realized that the family dynamics, as determined by the patriarch, told us all we need to know about Trump's immorality. In this case, I don't know if it could have been passed down through DNA or was simply a result of modeling.
Love this video and it's very popular with my students. DerWaal is working in the context of naïve interpretations of Darwin that all organisms are selfish. Much work like his as well as theoretical work shows that's not true. Some of my work and that of many others shows that altruism and self-interest are common in humans and that both predict, in opposite directions, concern with environment. A key addenda is scope of concern. Nearly everyone cares about family, but people vary in how large a group they care about and how that is defined. This allows for bias and polarization and is manipulated politically. For more on animals see animalstudies.msu.edu.
As to how to bring about change, finishing a very academic book partly on that. Short answer, norms matter . Norms are what you think others think and do, what you think they think you should do, what you think you should do. So modeling and encouraging fairness and altruism. Again, huge research lit. On Google Scholar you can look for Linda Steg or Wesley Schultz or me.
Thanks, Tom!