Chapter 282 Evolutionary Psychology Is a Good Thing

Why did Hei Bi treat him like this?

According to his current observations, "showing off" is the most logical explanation.

And it is "showing off to someone he hates".

By showing what he has and the other person does not have to gain a sense of superiority and achieve the effect of attack?

Why?

He didn't know the reason for the initial "conflict".

Before he started talking about Hei Bi's life experience, Hei Bi had already had a more obvious rejection of him.

And in the subsequent conversations, this rejection gradually deepened.

The reason for the deepening may be his "fabricated" life experience, "future man" or "person with magical experience".

This situation is very common. In his life, in school, some people would feel repulsive to people with better grades than themselves and even have conflicts because of this.

Yao Yan's memory has it that he had similar performance when he was alive.

In society, in the workplace, similar situations will also occur.

Roughly speaking, there are two ways for this kind of psychology to arise. One is rooted in genes, which will produce extra competitiveness and vigilance against excellent and powerful individuals.

In the society before his death, the concepts of "powerful" and "excellent" as a whole deviated towards "smart" and "learning ability".

Human cognition can be shaped. Some are easy to change, some are difficult to change, and some can be strengthened by later cognition to become more stable.

This vigilance, competitiveness, and aggressiveness towards "excellence" also vary in strength among different people.

However, in other cognitive judgments, these impulses may be suppressed, disappear silently, or form opposing judgments after other cognitive hedges.

It is also possible to be further strengthened, and even find a reason for "I am right".

Then, perhaps it is to comfort oneself with "this is inevitable", not to do it but not to leave any self-deprecating negative evaluation, just let it go.

Or perhaps it is to establish a new support point, and to establish other "arguments" as another point of view for the correctness of this point of view, and gradually establish interconnected arguments and evidence.

Most of these were personally experienced by Yao Yan before his death.

Yao Yan did not, and had no reason to solve the other party's rejection of himself.

The easier way to succeed is to follow the other party's point of view, admit mistakes and show an "obedience" attitude.

Just like some animals expose their bellies or lower their heads to expose their weak parts, to express obedience.

This kind of emotion that is constantly increasing and expanding after being intensified is close to the generation and development mechanism of the backfire effect. He may not be aware of his own mistakes, but in his knowledge logic system, he can find a "loophole" that "he is wrong", and the self-protection mechanism generates motivation, driving people to fill this loophole.

Whether it is self-deception or forgetting, or the collapse of this loophole, the "error" "pierced" by this loophole, as long as this problem is solved, the self-protection mechanism will stop outputting motivation.

As for why the other party began to reject him?

He really doesn't know this question, there are many possibilities.

For example, his behavior pattern or some other characteristics overlap to a certain extent with the person the other party hates.

Although people know that this person and the person they hate are not the same person, the physiological judgment mechanism and the information classification mechanism will classify things with certain identical or even similar characteristics into one category.

When making associative judgments, some non-shared features will be unconsciously interlaced.

This is a rough explanation of the "halo effect" in physiological logic.

Another defect caused by the "simplification" mechanism.

Of course, it may also be based on "security" and self-protection.

Because there is already a "corpse poet" in the cracked skull team, a new corpse poet may reduce his status.

Even, it may be because the judgment that "the number of crew members will decrease, and their status will decrease" is not because of "there is a new corpse poet", but "there are new members".

As for which one it is, Yao Yan does not have enough information to make a judgment, and it is even possible that these conjectures are overturned now.

However, the question is again.

Why does Yao Yan's thinking logic go in the direction of "analyzing the cause"?

Driven by curiosity?

Self-protection?

Carefully analyzing this behavior, it can be found from similar memories that when Yao Yan analyzes the cause of others' behavior, the original curiosity and even resentment and hatred will be eliminated.

In this kind of analysis behavior, Yao Yan seemed to have gained some pleasure and some sense of superiority before his death.

From the perspective of physiological logic, the initial source of "finding the cause" may be that in the process of survival elimination, individuals with "damage removal behavior" are more likely to survive.

Then, this screening and elimination gradually formed the immune mechanism.

At a more macro level, individuals who can self-clean damage have experienced the elimination of survival competition again.

Similarly, individuals with the consciousness of actively performing such behavior are more likely to survive.

This kind of concept is a relatively basic concept in evolutionary psychology.

Unfortunately, the research level of this theory is only a rough discussion, and the scope of application is uncertain. It is difficult to judge whether it is right or wrong, but it makes sense logically.

By analyzing why the enemy behaves in such a way, humans have an effect close to "cleaning the injured area" at the psychological level, which can inhibit the continued generation of emotional impulses such as hostility, attack, and counterattack.

When he made the judgment that "Black Arm is hostile to him", the inertia of his thinking that he himself was not aware of made him think in this direction.

However, substantive acts of revenge have also lost part of their motivation.

It turned into a "spiritual victory."

According to "normal people's logic" and "basic concepts of gains and losses" and "retaliation concepts", when attacked, one should at least return equivalent retaliation.

Depending on different people's understanding of "equivalence", this revenge may be a verbal counterattack, a physical violent attack, or other ways of harming the other party's interests.

for example

Black Arm, who walked to the side of the ship, did not realize that the undead had approached the bone ship and would soon be attacked. Instead, he should choose to ignore or even laugh at him and wait for the other party to be killed, at least to let the other party "suffer some pain." .

As for what Yao Yan planned to do?

Well, I didn’t plan to do anything.

He is not hostile to the other party, does not hate the other party, and does not intend to let the other party die.

However, he really didn't intend to do anything.

So, this time.

Should we talk about the heart or the deeds?

Did he do something wrong or not?

However, this question is meaningless.

Wrong and right are meaningless to Yaoyan now.

ps: When many people discuss right and wrong, they often don’t realize the “why”.

What concepts are based on to judge right and wrong.

And is this concept itself correct?

As for freedom of thought and all that?

Boundaries exist because of society. There is no bottom line in freedom. There are probably many "cool characters" like Yao Yan who are indifferent to human nature.

Oh, to be precise, there are many characters who make themselves look "emotionless".

The anti-human elements under the banner of internationalism can all be seen now, and there is nothing else that cannot be used as a disguise.

Oh, evolutionary psychology is a good thing, but it also has its scope of application. Human subjective initiative, emotions and cognition that can be shaped cannot be ignored.

Of course, this sentence is an explanation of the fact that those who do not understand evolutionary psychology may lead to unnecessary misunderstandings by some book friends because of literal interpretation.

If you have time, you can read related books and papers on evolutionary psychology, which is quite interesting.

Some of these views have similarities with the philosophical concepts of some schools.

The most important thing to say is that the relevant concepts involved in my book are relatively superficial, and problems in expression ability and understanding direction lead to different understandings. Please give priority to credible documents in related disciplines.

As an author, I have come into contact with too much broad and complex knowledge when reviewing various materials, but at best, I am just a clown showing off knowledge.

Even those classified as "science popularizers" are not qualified. Science popularization must also be rigorous. No, science popularization must be even more rigorous.

Moreover, many of the viewpoints covered in my book are not of a school in themselves.

To use an example that is simple but not accurate enough and can only roughly convey the meaning, the words printed with a sharp tool and the words displayed with ink, paint, and electronics may look "the same", but the difference is too big.