About liking, I don’t like everyone by default. And sometimes people like people who defect against them. There’s some correlation, but it doesn’t seem to be a complete explanation.
About suicide, do you think suicide is much less likely if you have no kin? That seems empirically checkable and I’d be amazed if it turned out to be true.
I would have expect suicide to be less likely if you have no kin, as that’s my hypothesis. A very quick Googling doesn’t show anything up though, so I’ll update in favor of “other hypothesis I haven’t thought of yet”.
[Edit: in order to help vindicate or demolish this hypothesis, some other things it would predict: suicidal intentions would be correlated with loss of appetite, spending frugally and family-wide poverty]
The original journal article is behind a paywall, but here is Jesse Bering’s SciAm Blog post elucidating on Dr. Denys deCatanzaro’s theory on adaptive suicide.
His theory seems to be in alignment with your beliefs on the subject.
About liking, I don’t like everyone by default. And sometimes people like people who defect against them. There’s some correlation, but it doesn’t seem to be a complete explanation.
About suicide, do you think suicide is much less likely if you have no kin? That seems empirically checkable and I’d be amazed if it turned out to be true.
I would have expect suicide to be less likely if you have no kin, as that’s my hypothesis. A very quick Googling doesn’t show anything up though, so I’ll update in favor of “other hypothesis I haven’t thought of yet”.
[Edit: in order to help vindicate or demolish this hypothesis, some other things it would predict: suicidal intentions would be correlated with loss of appetite, spending frugally and family-wide poverty]
The original journal article is behind a paywall, but here is Jesse Bering’s SciAm Blog post elucidating on Dr. Denys deCatanzaro’s theory on adaptive suicide.
His theory seems to be in alignment with your beliefs on the subject.