Depression & Suicide

DEPRESSION ANS SUICIDE, or Why Prozac failed... (another great lecture by Dr. Hagen at WSU Vancouver) Illness concept (wakefield) Dysfunction in organism That causes harm to individual Depression is assumed to be a dysfunction, a mood disorder, it is often related to serotonin what we often hear, it is a chemical imbalance. The implication is …

Parenting, Kinship, Reciprocal Altruism

I was inspired by the lecture taught by the WSU Vancouver's anthropology professor Dr. Hagen. So I decided to post my lecture notes online... This Evolutionary Psychology lecture touched on a subject of parenting, kinship and reciprocal altruism. We’ve talked about mating and parenting, which is similar approach, although with parenting we emphasize tradeoffs. In …