Robert Trivers
Auteur van The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
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Robert Trivers is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers University. Winner of the Crafoord Prize, he was recognized for "his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict, and cooperation." Trivers lives in Somerset, New Jersey, and in Jamaica.
Werken van Robert Trivers
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition Series) (2002) 74 exemplaren
Deceit and self-deception 1 exemplaar
Social Evolution 1 exemplaar
The Folly of Fools 1 exemplaar
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Trivers, Bob - Geboortedatum
- 1943-02-19
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- USA
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- Santa Cruz, California, USA
Somerset, New Jersey, USA
Jamaica - Opleiding
- Harvard University (PhD|Biology|1972)
Harvard College (AB|History|1965) - Beroepen
- evolutionary biologist
sociobiologist
university professor - Organisaties
- Rutgers University
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- Crafoord Prize (2007)
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- I have been an evolutionary biologist since the fall of 1965 when I first learned that natural selection is the key to understanding life and that it favors traits that give individuals an advantage (in producing surviving offspring). Spring of 1966 I learned Hamilton’s kinship theory, which extended one’s self-interest to include not only one’s own offspring but also those of relatives, each devalued by the appropriate degree of relatedness.
I was eager to contribute to building social theory based on natural selection, because a scientific system of social theory must, by logic be based on natural selection, and getting the foundations correct would have important implications for understanding our own psyches and social systems. A general system of logic that applies to all creatures also vastly extends the range of relevant evidence.
I then published a series of papers on social topics: reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment and sexual selection (1972), the sex ratio (1973), parent-offspring conflict (1974), kinship and sex ratio in the social insects (1976), summarized in my book on social evolution (1985). All of these papers can be downloaded from my ‘bibliography’ and a link to the book can be found under ‘books’.
I devoted 1990 to 2005 to mastering genetics, in particular,
selfish genetic elements, which typically are harmful to the organism as a whole but spread through within-individual genetic conflict. They infect all known organisms, including ourselves and come in many different forms. This entire subject is reviewed in my book with Austin Burt (2006), a link to which can be found under ‘books’ and various papers on the subject can also be found in my ‘bibliography’.
Finally, I have recently attempted to master the scientific literature on self-deception and to sketch out some of the many applications of the resulting view. Links to this book are found here on the front page. Links to earlier papers on the subject can be found in the ‘publications’.
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Een eigenzinnig boek. Steunend op een indrukjwekkende wetenschappelijke bibliografie, presenteert de auteur zijn steeds verhelderende en vaak verbluffende inzichten in onze systematische misleiding van anderen en ons zelfbedrog. Soms leest zijn verhaal als een erg persoonlijk dagboek, soms als strenge wetenschap, soms als politiek commentaar, soms als hoogstaande journalistiek. Het verveelt geen ogenblik en is geloofwaardig van de eerste bladzijde tot de laatste. Een absolute aanrader.
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Deception is everywhere in nature. And nowhere more so than in our own species. We humans are especially good at telling others less - or more - than the truth. Why, however, would organisms both seek out information and then act to destroy it? In short, why practice self-deception?
After decades of research, Robert Trivers has at last provided the missing theory to answer these questions. What emerges is a picture of deceit and self-deception as, at root, different sides of the same coin. We deceive ourselves the better to deceive others, and thereby reap the advantages. From space and aviation disasters to warfare, politics and religion, and the anxieties of our everyday social lives, Deceit and Self-Deception explains what really underlies a whole host of human problems. But can we correct our own biases? Are we doomed to indulge in fantasies, inflate our egos, and show off? Is it even a good idea to battle self-deception?
With his characteristically wry and self-effacing wit, Trivers reveals how he finds self-deception everywhere in his own life, and shows us that while we may not always avoid it, we can now at least hope to understand it.… (meer)