{"id":18896,"date":"2013-08-07T21:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18896"},"modified":"2013-08-07T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:39:29","slug":"new-study-suggests-humans-are-not-naturally-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/08\/new-study-suggests-humans-are-not-naturally-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"New study suggests humans are not naturally violent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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J.G. Vibes<\/span>
\n Activist Post<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A new study published last month in\u00a0Nature Journal\u00a0<\/em>suggests that humans are naturally good. This study adds to the mounting evidence against the popular misconception that corruption is a trait of human nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

In ten experiments using economic games, scientists observed that faster decisions result in more cooperation and generosity, while slower, calculated decisions show a decrease in cooperation and generosity. The conclusion is that the automatic reaction is to be friendly, generous and cooperative, and only upon further consideration do humans become greedy or violent. From<\/span>\u00a0the study<\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo explain these results, we propose that cooperation is intuitive because cooperative heuristics are developed in daily life where cooperation is typically advantageous. We then validate predictions generated by this proposed mechanism. Our results provide convergent evidence that intuition supports cooperation in social dilemmas, and that reflection can undermine these cooperative impulses.\u201d<\/span>
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Any scientific studies these days should be taken with a grain of salt, because we are without a doubt living in an era of soviet style science, where state and corporate entities are using the scientific establishment to project a particular worldview into the mainstream consciousness. This is why it is important to always look for funding sources and seek many different avenues of research. However, in this case, this particular study is just one of many proposals put forward by the scientific community in the past several decades stating confidently that corruption has nothing to do with human nature, as the popular misconception states.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first time this issue was brought up in the mainstream scientific community was in 1986 when scientists from around the world got together to discuss the psychological and biological evidence proving that human nature is no excuse for violent behavior. The findings that were released came to be known as \u201c<\/span>The Seville Statement<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This statement made 5 propositions, which are:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. \u201cIt is scientifically incorrect to say that we have inherited a tendency to make war from our animal ancestors.\u201d<\/span>
\n 2. \u201cIt is scientifically incorrect to say that war or any other violent behavior is genetically programmed into our human nature.\u201d<\/span>
\n 3. \u201cIt is scientifically incorrect to say that in the course of human evolution there has been a selection for aggressive behavior more than for other kinds of behavior.\u201d<\/span>
\n 4. \u201cIt is scientifically incorrect to say that humans have a \u2018violent brain\u2019.\u201d<\/span>
\n 5. \u201cIt is scientifically incorrect to say that war is caused by \u2018instinct\u2019 or any single motivation.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the Seville statement there have been many more studies reconfirming the propositions put forward. Just this past February a new study by a biologist named<\/span>\u00a0Frans de Waal showed that<\/span><\/a>\u00a0animals are naturally prone to cooperation when in the right circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As I discussed in the article<\/span>\u00a0Human Nature a Self Fulfilling Prophecy<\/span><\/a><\/span>, the actions that people carry out today, and the actions that have been carried out throughout history are the result of environmental factors, as well as psychological trauma and manipulation, they can not be chalked up to \u201chuman nature\u201d.To chalk the violence that we see around us up to human nature, is to avoid admitting there is a problem, thus preventing any progress from being made towards peace. If we think that human beings are dangerous and violent creatures, then some of us will be able to rationalize and justify malevolent behavior by writing it off as human nature, instead of condemning it as we should.If we actually condemn this behavior instead of making empty excuses for it, we will without a doubt drastically lower the level of violence on this planet. Individually, and as a species, we can only go as far as our imagination will take us. We are only capable of what we can imagine, and if all we can imagine is violence, submission, and domination, then that\u2019s all were ever going to get.<\/span><\/div>\n

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