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The Social Brain
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By nature, humans are a social species. Our brains are wired from birth with programs that were crucial to our distant ancestors. Infants come equipped with a basic repertoire of social skills. And...
By nature, humans are a social species. Our brains are wired from birth with programs that were crucial to our distant ancestors. Infants come equipped with a basic repertoire of social skills. And yet, as history has shown, there is a dark side to the human brain. The evidence is overwhelming that throughout our history as a species, relations between individuals and societies have been destructive as well as positive. As series host Roger Bingham explains: "We are living in the Space Age with brains from the Stone Age. We need to 'tune' our psychology, to figure out how to turn up the volume on ancient instincts like cooperation and turn down the volume on instincts like organized aggression.
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- Creator
- KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c1995
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (58 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn858998523
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 10, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Creating a Modern Community (2:20) -- Social Species (1:53) -- Hunter-Gatherer Origins (1:12) -- Human Survival Skills (1:37) -- Prosopagnosia (3:35) -- Training Babies for Society (4:27) -- Joint Attention (1:37) -- Mental "Eden" of Early Childhood (3:37) -- Theory of Mind Mechanism (1:59) -- Deciphering Emotions (4:11) -- Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis (4:57) -- William's Syndrome (2:10) -- Frontal Lobe and Social Function (2:24) -- Damaging the Social Brain (1:27) -- Gut Feelings and the Social Brain (3:48) -- Role Model Inputs in Social Awareness (2:05) -- Understanding Aggression (1:55) -- Need for Cooperation and Reciprocity (3:02) -- Modern Hunter-Gatherer Model (1:55) -- Modern Social Disconnect (1:46) -- Cultural Evolution (1:21) -- Credits: The Social Brain (0:51)