Information about people behaving erratically/violently is better at grabbing your brain’s “important” sensor? (Noting that I had exactly the same instinctual reaction). This seems to be roughly what you’d expect from naive evopsych (which doesn’t mean it’s a good explanation, of course)
I’d guess there weren’t as many nutcases in the average ancestral climate, as there are in modern news/rumor mills. We underestimate how often it’s going to turn out that there wasn’t really a reason they did those things.
Information about people behaving erratically/violently is better at grabbing your brain’s “important” sensor? (Noting that I had exactly the same instinctual reaction). This seems to be roughly what you’d expect from naive evopsych (which doesn’t mean it’s a good explanation, of course)
I’d guess there weren’t as many nutcases in the average ancestral climate, as there are in modern news/rumor mills. We underestimate how often it’s going to turn out that there wasn’t really a reason they did those things.