#TacitCreationism
#TacitCreationism is pervasive and problematic. Dan Stein and I explain why, and why it matters, in our just-published article. 1/3
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March 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
More on #TacitCreationism in my new article "Social Situations Shape Social Emotions That Benefit Genes" a commentary on a fine article by Keltner & Oatley https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.6.1.275 on why social emotions deserve much more attention....
Challenges and Promises of a Social Functional Approach: Response to Commentaries
Article Challenges and Promises of a Social Functional Approach: Response to Commentaries was published on April 1, 2022 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 6, issue 1).
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April 19, 2022 at 10:46 PM
Fundamental controversies about emotions, psychiatry and neuroscience persist despite decades of new data. My new article blames #TacitCreationism -the tendency to think about the mind as if it was designed. ...
June 8, 2020 at 1:50 PM
For this Thursday’s #ClubEvMed I will argue that research on emotions and mental disorders has been spinning its wheels because of thinking about the mind as if it was designed. Join our online journal club discussion about #TacitCreationism !...
June 8, 2020 at 1:44 PM
#Tacitcreationism views the body as a machine with sensibly designed components with specific functions. But bodies are organic systems whose complexity is fundamentally different. Here is a pdf of the...
June 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM
#Tacitcreationism explains the persistence of fundamental controversies about emotions despite decades of research. See my just-published article in Emotion Researcher for details. @PsychTimes @ISEMPH @evmedasu @HumBehEvoSoc @EvolHumBehav @EHBEA1 ...
June 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM