----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:11 AM Subject: Re: The Savage Solution
> > Who knows how many conditionally expressed psychological traits humans > have? Mothers bond with their infants depending on chemical switches > (their brains are soaked with oxytocin during birth). Capture-bonding or > Stockholm Syndrome is switched on by being captured and fear. Zimbardo's > prison experiments at Stanford are best explained as being an expression of > the evolved counter part to Stockholm Syndrome. I.e., we have a > psychological mechanism to mistreat captive to induce fear leading to > capture-bonding. That trait is conditionally switched on by the mere > presence of captives. The problem I have with evolutionary psychology is that it is an a posterori general explaination. So, I thought I might deal with this by asking some questions about an area that can be explained by arguements similar to that you have given above: Battered women. My wife has worked years with battered women, and has written her master's thesis in that area. So, I am at least moderately familiar with this area, and have a resource for getting more information. So, let me ask some general questions: Are there any factors that predict that a woman is more likely to enter a relationship with someone who batters her? Are there any factors that predict whether a woman will leave such a relationship? Is a battered woman more or less likely to be abusive to her children? I would very much appreciate a discussion that starts with evolutionary psychology and then shows how the predictions can be deduced from the basic premises. Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
