“Yes, people with divergent ideas are more likely to be exiled.”
I did mention creative achievement as well, not just divergent thinking. So are musicians and actors among these exiled? These seem like the type of professions that are lauded in mainstream culture more than exiled. Creativity correlates both with being attractive to the opposite sex and suicidal ideation (not to mention suicidal completion). Now, sexual attraction doesn’t necessarily prove that these are socially acceptable professions, but I think it is premature to call these people “exiled” without additional evidence.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8726961
“This may partly explain the high suicide rates witnessed for occupations such as artists, High-risk occupations for suicide 7actors and entertainers, musicians and merchant seafarers. Nurses have previously been identified with
high suicide rates. (I also want to point out nurses. While nurses aren’t necessarily more creative, they are certainly not exiled social pariahs) ”
I still stand by the position that depression being rooted solely on the basis of tribal exile, or as an evo-psych emotional reaction to tribal exile, as grossly simplistic.
The risk to lose friends make people to rationalize their behavior to make them more similar to a group, convincing himself of some identity, or optimizing toward a set of habits of the average guy of her group. Additionally, contrarian thinking signals status too.
“Yes, people with divergent ideas are more likely to be exiled.”
I did mention creative achievement as well, not just divergent thinking. So are musicians and actors among these exiled? These seem like the type of professions that are lauded in mainstream culture more than exiled. Creativity correlates both with being attractive to the opposite sex and suicidal ideation (not to mention suicidal completion). Now, sexual attraction doesn’t necessarily prove that these are socially acceptable professions, but I think it is premature to call these people “exiled” without additional evidence.
Sources:
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/safp/article/view/13477 “Specialties with high suicide risk are musicians, dentists, nurses, social workers, artists, mathematicians, scientists and police officers”
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8726961 “This may partly explain the high suicide rates witnessed for occupations such as artists, High-risk occupations for suicide 7actors and entertainers, musicians and merchant seafarers. Nurses have previously been identified with high suicide rates. (I also want to point out nurses. While nurses aren’t necessarily more creative, they are certainly not exiled social pariahs) ”
http://repository.unm.edu/handle/1928/10410
I still stand by the position that depression being rooted solely on the basis of tribal exile, or as an evo-psych emotional reaction to tribal exile, as grossly simplistic.
The risk to lose friends make people to rationalize their behavior to make them more similar to a group, convincing himself of some identity, or optimizing toward a set of habits of the average guy of her group. Additionally, contrarian thinking signals status too.
For much of human history yes.