Comments on: The Psychology Behind The Law of Attraction: Why evolution has taught us how to get what we want. http://www.perilouslyprecocious.com/the-psychology-behind-the-law-of-attraction-why-evolution-has-taught-us-how-to-get-what-we-want Miss Ash Fell Into The Rabbit Hole Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dale Glaebach http://www.perilouslyprecocious.com/the-psychology-behind-the-law-of-attraction-why-evolution-has-taught-us-how-to-get-what-we-want#comment-36437 Dale Glaebach Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:06:05 +0000 http://www.perilouslyprecocious.com/?p=122#comment-36437 As an evolutionary psychologist with spiritual interests, I thought I should make note of two minor errors, one typographical and one in the article's description of evolutionary theory. First, the typo: In the sentence, "For many, these connections alone left an unfavorable flavors in their spiritual mouths." the "an" should be omitted given that "flavors" is plural. Now the theory error: Although the author's use of "plasticity" is correct, she doesn't use "adapt" right. Adaptation is a process that occurs across lifetimes, and not within one life. Most people use this word in the more loose sense that this author does. But if your trying to speak the language of Evolutionary Psychology, one must be more careful. The things that our plastic brain allows us during our lifetimes is the ability to "adjust" to the various events that transpire. "Adapt" is used by evolutionary psychologists to refer to much more subtle and gradual changes in the genome over very long periods of time ---for example, various people around the world have adapted to drinking milk even though it is not part of original behavior and many people in the world are still lactose intolerant (the natural state) There may be some other errors, but, on the whole, I thought the article was very helpful. As an evolutionary psychologist with spiritual interests, I thought I should make note of two minor errors, one typographical and one in the article’s description of evolutionary theory. First, the typo: In the sentence, “For many, these connections alone left an unfavorable flavors in their spiritual mouths.” the “an” should be omitted given that “flavors” is plural. Now the theory error: Although the author’s use of “plasticity” is correct, she doesn’t use “adapt” right. Adaptation is a process that occurs across lifetimes, and not within one life. Most people use this word in the more loose sense that this author does. But if your trying to speak the language of Evolutionary Psychology, one must be more careful. The things that our plastic brain allows us during our lifetimes is the ability to “adjust” to the various events that transpire. “Adapt” is used by evolutionary psychologists to refer to much more subtle and gradual changes in the genome over very long periods of time —for example, various people around the world have adapted to drinking milk even though it is not part of original behavior and many people in the world are still lactose intolerant (the natural state)

There may be some other errors, but, on the whole, I thought the article was very helpful.

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