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Started by Da6s, June 28, 2010, 07:20:54 PM

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Da6s

June 28, 2010, 07:20:54 PM
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/04/strength-in-naughty-or-nice/


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New research from Harvard University suggests that moral actions may increase people's capacity for willpower and physical endurance. Study participants who did good deeds — or even just imagined themselves helping others — were better able to perform a subsequent task of physical endurance.
The research, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows a similar or even greater boost in physical strength following mean-spirited deeds.
Researcher Kurt Gray, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard, explains these effects as a self-fulfilling prophecy in morality.
"People perceive those who do good and evil to have more efficacy, more willpower, and less sensitivity to discomfort," Gray said. "By perceiving themselves as good or evil, people embody these perceptions, actually becoming more capable of physical endurance."
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

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June 28, 2010, 07:49:37 PM
Perhaps this is why Osama Bin Laden is (supposedly) still alive despite having a (supposedly) bad kidney or two. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Jasper

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June 29, 2010, 12:06:13 AM
That's great! 

Now.  Which one sounds like more fun?

Nast

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June 29, 2010, 05:17:05 AM
Huh! I wonder if it isn't just self-perception of being good or evil, but rather just a strong sense of self  that does it. Willpower and all that.

But I personally wouldn't take a lesson from a game in which divorcing your wife earns you 10x more evil than murdering her.
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Freeky

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June 29, 2010, 05:17:58 AM
Quote from: Nast on June 29, 2010, 05:17:05 AM
Huh! I wonder if it isn't just self-perception of being good or evil, but rather just a strong sense of self  that does it. Willpower and all that.

But I personally wouldn't take a lesson from a game in which divorcing your wife earns you 10x more evil than murdering her.

lol I didn't know that! :lulz:

Triple Zero

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June 29, 2010, 01:55:35 PM
Quote from: RWHN on June 28, 2010, 07:49:37 PM
Perhaps this is why Osama Bin Laden is (supposedly) still alive despite having a (supposedly) bad kidney or two. 

They weren't bad kidneys, they were EVIL kidneys!

So they had more endurance!
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June 29, 2010, 02:58:05 PM
I heard he refused a transplant because he didn't know where the donor's kidneys had bean. 
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June 29, 2010, 03:08:54 PM
Quote from: RWHN on June 29, 2010, 02:58:05 PM
I heard he refused a transplant because he didn't know where the donor's kidneys had bean. 

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June 29, 2010, 03:12:46 PM
Quote from: RWHN on June 29, 2010, 02:58:05 PM
I heard he refused a transplant because he didn't know where the donor's kidneys had bean. 

Ah fuck you did it again!
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June 29, 2010, 03:13:43 PM
If he took them though, he wouldn't have to dial Aziz anymore.
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