Human Paleopsychology: Applications To Aggression and Patholoqical Processes

567 Pages·1987·11.55 MB·English

by  Kent G. Bailey

HUMAN
PALEOPSYCHOLOGY
APPLICATIONS TO AGGRESSION
AND PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
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HUMAN
PALEOPSYCHOLOGY
APPLICATIONS TO AGGRESSION
AND PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Kent G. Bailey
Virginia Commonwealth University
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
1987 Hillsdale, NJ London
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bailey, Kent.
Human paleopsychology.
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
1. Genetic psychology. 2. Man—Animal nature.
I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Behavior. 2. Human Development.
3. Phylogeny. 4. Psychology. 5. Regression (Psychology).
WM 193.5.R2 B154h]
BF701.B27 1986 155.7 86-19823
ISBN 0-89859-810-9
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21
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To Paul D. MacLean, whose theory of the triune brain
forms the core of the New Social Science
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Contents
Preface xi
Foreword xv
1
Introduction 1
What is Man? 1
Animal Nature and Human Nature 2
The Phylogenetic Regression-Progression Model 29
Summary 30
2
The New Biology 33
The New Darwinian Revolutions 33
The New Biology and New Social Science 37
The Evolved Nervous System 53
Summary 73
3
Ape and Angel Revisited: A Theoretical Perspective 75
Phylogenetic Regression-Progression 75
Intelligence and the Regression-Progression Continuum 99
Summary 113
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viii CONTENTS
4
Regression-Progression and Human Evolution 116
The Continuum 116
The Content of Human Evolution 124
Summary 157
5
Fundamental Paleopsychology: Correlates and
Consequences of Phylogenetic Regression 160
Correlates 160
Summary and Comment 200
6
The Primers and Elicitors of Phylogenetic Regression 202
Internal Primers 205
External Elicitors 219
Summary 236
7
Some Special Theory-Derived Primers and Elicitors 240
Stress-Related Elicitors 240
Other Theory-Derived Elicitors 248
Summary 262
8
The Paleopsychology of Motivation and Learning 264
Motivation and Behavior 264
Learning and Behavior 283
Summary 300
9
Hierarchical Analysis of Behavior and Misbehavior 303
The Causes of Behavior 303
The Method of Hierarchical Analysis 330
Summary 347
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CONTENTS ix
10
The Mark of Cain: Old Aggression in a New Age 349
Quotes of Our Time 349
Background Issues 350
Aggression, Violence, and the Brain 363
Theoretical Considerations 372
Summary 383
11
Paleopsychological Bases of Aggression in Humans 386
General Overview 386
Primitive Aggression Type 1: Predation 390
Primitive Aggression Type 2: Territoriality 400
Primitive Aggression Type 3: Dominance 409
Summary 420
12
The Paleopsychology of Pathological Processes 423
Definitions and Theory 423
Illustrative Analyses: Disorders of the
Sex-Aggression Linkage 438
Summary 457
Appendix
The Regression-Progression Model: Assumptions,
Subassumptions, and Corollaries 460
References 468
Author Index 509
Subject Index 520
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