Comments on: Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens

By: mark safranski

mark safranski — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How long before it clicked with someone that you manipulated them into pro-social behaviors ? ;O)

" Mr. tdaxp, I think that's....HEY!!!"

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

great Xmas movie quote:

'A + + +! O, Ralphie!'

but no pertinent feedback.

any interesting responses in class?

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sean,

Thanks for the props! There was an interesting discussion on the moral implications of moving people away from altruism towards wary cooperation.

"Altruism" as second-order free-riding is an important realization, and one that takes a while to sink in.

Mark,

Curtis thought something similar [1]

It would be interesting to see how students with metacognition react to this sort of manipulation...

[1] http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/11/reflecting_on_r.php

By: Curtis Gale Weeks

Curtis Gale Weeks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henceforth, I will leave only bare comments on TDAXP and reserve the longer comments for Phatic Communion!

Thanks for the link, Dan! I've left another as a trackback...

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Curtis,

I responded [1], but twice, accidentally! :-)

I agree with your comments on blogspirit -- check out the Jim River Reports from the latter part of today [2]

[1] http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/12/gardens_for_chi.php
[2] http://www.jimriverreport.com/archive/jim_river_report_20061201.html