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Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors by culanuchachamim on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:24PM (#36488230)
Can you expand on why you think this is a batshit crazy garbage?
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Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors by Camouflager on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:50PM (#36488349)
The statement is misusing words, in that rewards make you happy by definition. This is a typical postmodern statement, trying to reorganize deep rooted cognitive structures, with words, which is completely backwards.
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Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors by ddevault on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:07AM (#36490184)
Evolutionary psychology is psuedoscience.
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Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors by kelipso on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:48AM (#36493678)
It makes a lot more sense than the usual psychology frameworks, so I would rather approach it from an evolutionary psychology point of view than not lol.
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