From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 23:21:40 MDT
At 03:30 PM 8/15/02 -0700, Lee wrote:
>few can pretend to have one
>set of motives while secretly harboring another without at least
>giving tiny signs. So women would evolve the ability to see
>through such deception, and conclude---either logically or on the
>basis of intuition---that this particular man was in some ways
>a phony.
>So an arms race ensues: the genes' strategy for some men will
>continue to evolve even better patterns of deception, and women's
>detectors will also evolve correspondingly.
This is routine ev psych. I gather that sociopaths/psychopaths are often
compellingly persuasive to their victims exactly because they *don't*
convey that subtle blip unintentionally revealing the cognitive/affective
glitch or doublespeak. I *think* this damaged module has even shown up in
brain scans (or rather failed to showed up where it ought to have done); a
quick google didn't settle this.
Damien Broderick
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