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Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change
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Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic science of intentional change centered on evolution; second, to provide examples of intentional behavioral and cultural change from the applied behavioral sciences, which are largely unknown to the basic scientific community. All species have evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that enable them to respond adaptively to their environments. Some mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity count as evolutionary processes in their own right. The human capacity for symbolic thought provides an inheritance system with the same kind of combinatorial diversity as genetic recombination and antibody formation. Taking these propositions seriously allows an integration of major traditions within the basic behavioral sciences, such as behaviorism, social constructivism, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology, which are often isolated and even conceptualized as opposed to each other. The applied behavioral sciences include well-validated examples of successfully managing behavioral and cultural change at scales ranging from individuals, to small groups, to large populations. However, these examples are largely unknown beyond their disciplinary boundaries, for lack of a unifying theoretical framework. Viewed from an evolutionary perspective, they are examples of managing evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity, including open-ended processes of variation and selection. Once the many branches of the basic and applied behavioral sciences become conceptually unified, we are closer to a science of intentional change than one might think. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014.
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“The capacity for cultural transmission also exists in many species – more than one might imagine, as it is a relatively new topic in animal behavior research (Hill 2010; Laland & Galef 2009; Laland & Hoppitt 2003; Page & Ryan 2006).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.3. Learning from the immune system about evolutionary psychology
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- Disputedcites Hill 2010 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Conclusion says that some animals pass behavioral traditions between generations, but “they do not transmit cultural content.” In “Experimental and Statistical Techniques to Detect Social Learning” (page unavailable), Hill argues that animal traditions are building blocks of culture rather than culture itself. This contrasts with the claim that cultural transmission exists in many species. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Not matchedcites Laland & Galef 2009
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“Only when we depolarize the distinction between EP and the SSSM can a science of change occur (Bolhuis et al. 2011; Buller 2005; Scher & Rauscher 2002; Wilson 2002b).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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- Partly supportedcites Bolhuis et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Towards a New Science of the Evolution of the Mind” (page unavailable), the paper calls for methodological and conceptual integration of evolutionary psychology with adjacent fields. Its Conclusions likewise advocate a broader, multidisciplinary approach. It does not say that depolarizing the distinction between EP and the standard social science model is the only way a science of change can occur. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“For example, taste aversion (Garcia et al. 1966) challenged the idea that immediacy per se is key in stimulus pairings in classical conditioning, as illness could follow by tens of hours and still induce aversion to ecologically sensible food-related cues.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
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- Partly supportedcites Garcia et al. 1966 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The introduction says that immediate reinforcement is not required for all learning, and the Results and Discussion report taste aversion after delayed drug injections. This supports the challenge to immediacy, but the reported significant effect extends to 75 minutes, not the citing sentence’s “tens of hours.” The discussion mentions other avoidance responses developing hours after ingestion, without establishing that duration for this experiment. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Many human traits can change only by genetic evolution (e.g., the ability to digest lactose in adults; Holden & Mace 2009).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.4. The human symbolic inheritance system
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- Supportedcites Holden & Mace 2009 source
The Abstract identifies adult lactose digestion capacity as an inherited genetic trait. The Selective Pressures for Drinking Milk section describes selection for lactase persistence, supporting its use as an example of a trait that changes through genetic evolution. The broader statement about ‘many human traits’ is the citing authors’ framing. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“When the cognitive revolution dethroned behaviorism in academic psychology during the second half of the 20th century, behaviorism did not disappear. Instead, it developed into a robust set of methods for accomplishing behavioral change in a variety of applied disciplines such as applied behavior analysis (Baer et al. 1968) and behavior therapy (Wolpe 1958).”
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- Supportedcites Baer et al. 1968 source
Baer et al. is cited for applied behavior analysis as an example of a discipline using methods to change behavior, not for the separate claim about the cognitive revolution or for behavior therapy. The paper’s summary of applied behavior analysis describes experimental manipulations, specified procedures, and their effectiveness in producing valuable behavior change. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wolpe 1958 source
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“it is possible for the replication of cultural traits to be a systemic process without the need for gene-like replicators (Henrich et al. 2008; Laland & Brown 2011).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.4. The human symbolic inheritance system
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- Supportedcites Henrich et al. 2008 source
The section “Replicators are not necessary for cumulative adaptive cultural evolution” (p. 5) says that cultural transmission can accurately replicate population-level characteristics without discrete, gene-like replicators. The discussion on p. 4 likewise describes a replicator-approximating process arising even when representations are non-discrete and transformed during acquisition. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“The ability to derive such relations when they have their bases in arbitrary cues and not physical properties seems to require multiple exemplars of the key relational tasks (Berens & Hayes 2007).”
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The Abstract reports that reinforced multiple-exemplar training facilitated arbitrary comparative relations. The Discussion says the training contingencies were necessary for acquiring generalized comparative relational performance, supporting the citing sentence’s hedged claim. Page numbers are not available in the indexed passages. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“For example, if a person learns in arbitrary matching to sample that three events are related in the order X<Y<Z, and if Y is then paired with a shock, Z will elicit more arousal than Y will, even though there were never any shocks paired with Z and there is no physical relationship between Y and Z (Dougher et al. 2007).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
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- Partly supportedcites Dougher et al. 2007 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract reports that after arbitrary match-to-sample training and pairing the middle stimulus B with mild shock, the larger-ranked stimulus C produced greater skin-conductance changes than B in 6 of 8 experimental participants. The Results and Discussion also say C was never associated with shock. The claim's unqualified 'will elicit more arousal' overstates a result observed in most, but not all, participants. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Therapies that teach people to respond more flexibly in the presence of emotions increase healthy variation that can help them rise to the challenge of diverse problems such as chronic pain (e.g., Wicksell et al. 2009), substance use (e.g., Witkiewitz & Bowen 2010), tinnitus (e.g., Westin et al. 2011, worksite stress (Flaxman & Bond 2010), or suicidal behavior (Berking et al. 2009).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wicksell et al. 2009 source
- Supportedcites Witkiewitz & Bowen 2010 source
This citation is attached to substance use, not the other problems listed in the sentence. The Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention section describes teaching clients to observe emotional discomfort without automatically reacting, and the Results report that the intervention attenuated the link between depressive symptoms and craving in predicting subsequent substance use. The paper does not measure “healthy variation” by that name, but it supports the substance-use example of responding more flexibly to emotions. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Westin et al. 2011 source
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“Growing evidence indicates that the core ability to relate symbols and objects in this way when relationships are arbitrarily applicable is learned (e.g., Barnes-Holmes et al. 2004), beginning in infancy (e.g., Luciano et al. 2007).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
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- Supportedcites Barnes-Holmes et al. 2004
The Discussion (page unavailable) reports that training established relational responding in young children and that they generalized it to novel objects. This supports the learned-ability claim attributed to Barnes-Holmes et al.; the sentence cites Luciano et al. separately for the infancy claim. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Supportedcites Luciano et al. 2007 source
The Abstract reports that multiple-exemplar training began with a child at 15 months and that derived visual–visual equivalence responding emerged at 19 months. This supports the part of the citing sentence attributed to Luciano et al.: that the ability can develop in infancy. The paper cautions that its findings from one child need replication. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“The game was especially effective at achieving these outcomes for boys (Bradshaw et al. 2009; Kellam et al. 2008).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Partly supportedcites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports that educational effects tended to be greatest for boys, but those effects were for the classroom-centered intervention, which combined the Good Behavior Game with an enhanced academic curriculum. The same section says the study cannot determine the Game’s independent contribution to those outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Supportedcites Kellam et al. 2008 source
The Discussion states that the GBG’s long-term benefits were particularly pronounced for males. It also says that, across the outcomes examined, effects appeared stronger for males than for females. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The Morningside Academy in Seattle uses many of the procedures from the Good Behavior Game and related behavior analysis studies for students in grades K–10, with exceptional success (Johnson 1997).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Partly supportedcites Johnson 1997 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper identifies Morningside Academy as a Seattle school serving grades K–10 and reports average gains of 2.5 grade levels per school year over ten years (MORNINGSIDE ACADEMY; Standardized Tests, page not provided). It describes behavioral instructional methods and a points-based daily report card, but does not say the school uses procedures from the Good Behavior Game. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Other successful schools for at-risk teenagers are similarly intensive (e.g., Angrist et al. 2010; Henig 2008).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Not matchedcites Angrist et al. 2010
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- Partly supportedcites Henig 2008Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Other Outcomes section describes Bay Area KIPP schools as intensive, with 9.5-hour days plus summer and Saturday classes. Final Thoughts says the studies show positive academic effects, but emphasizes methodological limitations; the Bay Area schools studied served grades 5–8, so the source does not establish the broader claim about successful schools for at-risk teenagers. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“During grades six through eight, the GBG students were less likely to use tobacco or hard drugs.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Partly supportedcites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Prior Research section reports reduced tobacco initiation by the end of seventh grade and reduced hard-drug initiation during Grades 6–8. Those findings concern the classroom-centered intervention, which combined the Good Behavior Game with academic enhancements; the paper does not establish the effect of the GBG alone. (LLM, conf=0.85)
- Partly supportedcites Kellam et al. 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results sections on lifetime regular smoking and drug abuse/dependence report lower rates among GBG participants than controls. But the measured outcomes were assessed in young adulthood, not during grades six through eight, and the paper does not establish reduced use of specifically “hard drugs” in those grades. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“These lifelong positive outcomes illustrate the cumulative effect that cooperative behavior can have over the course of child development (Belsky 2010; Del Giudice et al. 2011; Ellis & Bjorklund 2005; Ellis et al. 2012; Moffitt et al. 2011).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Partly supportedcites Belsky 2010Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Childhood experience and reproductive strategy” (page not provided), the paper links supportive childhood environments to a reciprocally rewarding interpersonal orientation and later pair bonding and parental investment. It does not establish that children’s cooperative behavior itself has a cumulative effect producing lifelong positive outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.78)
- Partly supportedcites Del Giudice et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 3.2 (page unavailable) says childhood peer acceptance and social rank can persist into adulthood. Section 6.1 (page unavailable) links a prosocial orientation and favorable adult relationship outcomes to interpersonally oriented self-control. Neither passage establishes that cooperative behavior during childhood cumulatively causes lifelong positive outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“Left unmanaged, evolutionary processes often take us where we would prefer not to go.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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“Viewed from an evolutionary perspective, they are examples of managing evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity, including open-ended processes of variation and selection.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > Abstract
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“Taking these propositions seriously allows an integration of major traditions within the basic behavioral sciences, such as behaviorism, social constructivism, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology, which are often isolated and even conceptualized as opposed to one another.”
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“Some mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity count as evolutionary processes in their own right.”
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“The human capacity for symbolic thought provides an inheritance system having the same kind of combinatorial diversity as does genetic recombination and antibody formation.”
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“Once the many branches of the basic and applied behavioral sciences become conceptually unified, we are closer to a science of intentional change than one might think.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > Abstract
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“Using evolution to inform public policy earned such a bad reputation that “social Darwinism” came to signify the justification of social inequality (Hofstadter 1959/1992; Leonard 2009).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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- Not matchedcites Hofstadter 1959/1992
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“A solid foundation in evolutionary theory can also help us understand why some changes we desire, which count as adaptations in the evolutionary sense of the word, can turn out to be bad for long-term human welfare.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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“The study of evolution in relation to human affairs has a long and tortuous history that led many to abandon and even oppose the enterprise altogether (Ehrenreich & McIntosh 1997; Sahlins 1976; Segerstrale 2001).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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- Not matchedcites Ehrenreich & McIntosh 1997
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Sahlins 1976 source
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“If we can think about the human capacity for behavioral and cultural change as we do the immune system, we can begin to provide an appropriately broad foundation for a science of intentional change.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.3. Learning from the immune system about evolutionary psychology
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“It is therefore ironic that when Tooby and Cosmides (1992) formulated their version of EP, they set it apart from the SSSM that included the Skinnerian tradition (see also Pinker 1997; 2002).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tooby & Cosmides 1992 source
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“Evolutionists routinely rely upon a blank slate assumption of their own when they reason about adaptation and natural selection.”
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“Long before Tooby and Cosmides’s version of EP made the scene, the so-called cognitive revolution had largely displaced behaviorism in academic psychology.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
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- Not matchedcites Brewer 1974
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- Not matchedcites Bruner 1973
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“Insofar as individual learning and cultural change count as evolutionary processes, a blank slate assumption can be made about what evolves on the basis of the molding action of selection, which is permitted but not caused by the proximate mechanisms underlying the evolutionary processes”
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“Evolution became a pariah concept to avoid as a conceptual foundation for the study of human behavior and culture for most of the 20th century.”
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“They predict the adaptations that would evolve by natural selection, given heritable variation and a sufficient number of generations.”
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“The point that Skinner was making with his key phrase “selection by consequences” was that evolution goes beyond genetic evolution.”
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“One of the seeds of the cognitive revolution, which took root in Tooby and Cosmides’s version of EP, was a challenge to what most perceived to be the extreme domain generality of behavioral approaches.”
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“When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, they emerge as examples of wisely managing evolutionary processes to accomplish significant improvement in human well-being.”
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“It is a fabulously complex set of adaptations that evolved genetically to protect organisms against disease.”
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“Against this background, debates about the existence of domain-general cognitive mechanisms can be seen to be largely misplaced.”
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“In short, the error of theorists such as Cosmides and Tooby was to ignore (or at least greatly downplay) the possibility that the complex special-purpose adaptations that evolved by genetic evolution resulted in nongenetic mechanisms of inheritance, capable of rapidly adapting people to their current environments in a domain-general fashion.”
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“Apart from the particular school of thought known as EP, there is a long tradition of thinking about the immune system, brain development, learning, culture, and science (as a particular form of culture) as evolutionary processes that result in adaptations to current environments according to their respective criteria of selection”
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“What interests us in this context is how these concerns quickly led to abandoning the idea that general learning process accounts were possible.”
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“The question is not whether the mechanisms qualify as domain general, but whether they result in heritable variation, which allows the evolutionary process to be domain general.”
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“The concern over the limits of domain generality in cognitive psychology redoubled as EP arrived as a self-described discipline, including the influential volume The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Barkow et al. 1992; see also Pinker 1997; 2002).”
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“Reconciling the differences between the behaviorist tradition and EP can go a long way toward reconciling the apparent paradox of genetic innateness and the capacity for short-term change in all branches of the human behavioral sciences.”
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“Indeed, the randomized control trials and other high-quality real-world experiments described in section 2 can be regarded as a refined variation-and-selection process with faster and more accurate feedback on effectiveness than other mechanisms of cultural evolution.”
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“When this error is corrected, the blank slate traditions represented by authors such as Skinner and Durkheim can be seen as fully compatible with modern evolutionary theory.”
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“The phenotypic properties of organisms are caused by selection and merely permitted by heritable variation (Campbell 1990; Wilson 1988).”
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“The innate component is massively modular, much as Tooby and Cosmides describe for human psychology.”
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“For example, they confidently predict that many species inhabiting desert environments will evolve to be sandy colored to conceal themselves from their predators and prey. This prediction can be made without any knowledge of the genes or physical composition of the species.”
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“By far, the best understood Darwin machine is the vertebrate immune system.”
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“In the abstract of his influential article “Selection by Consequences,” Skinner (1981) framed his version of behaviorism in terms of evolution:”
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“These insights are fully justified from an evolutionary perspective, to the extent that learning and cultural change qualify as evolutionary processes.”
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“It is important to stress that the cultural inheritance system does not entirely supersede the other inheritance systems.”
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“The variation-and-selection process employed by the adaptive component of the immune system enables the organism to adapt rapidly to diseases that have evaded the innate component of the immune system.”
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“As an example, religious and superstitious beliefs might not correspond directly to anything that exists in the real world, but they might still be favored by selection, based on the behaviors they motivate in the real world.”
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““tacit systems of higher-order relations at various levels of generality modulate how human subjects judge and discover novel relations within those domains””
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“Conversely, a person can hear the word cheese a million times in the absence of cheese and the relation will remain intact.”
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“However our symbolic inheritance system and its combinatorial properties arose, the result was a quantum jump in our capacity for open-ended behavioral and cultural change.”
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“Like genotypes, symbotypes evolve based on what they cause the organism to do, regardless of the direct correspondence between the mental and environmental relations.”
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“The massive modularity thesis of Tooby and Cosmides is like a description of the innate component of the immune system without the adaptive component.”
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“Combining the valid elements of both positions enables us to reconcile the concepts of elaborate innateness and an open-ended capacity for change.”
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“The concept of “evolution without replicators” applies even to genetic evolution (Godfrey-Smith 2000).”
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“One hundred million antibodies occur not by a happy accident but by an orchestrated process creating combinations of genes from highly polymorphic regions of the chromosomes.”
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“Human evolution increasingly is seen as a major transition, similar to the evolution of eukaryotic cells, multicellular organisms, and eusocial insect colonies (Boehm 1999; Maynard Smith & Szathmary 1995; Sober & Wilson 1998; Wilson 2011a).”
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“It is therefore incorrect to say that cultural evolution serves to maximize genetic fitness, as if the latter can be defined without reference to the former.”
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“In this sense, it is impressively domain general.”
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“Genotypes, symbotypes, and antibodies share something else – almost infinite variety, based on the recombination of their elements.”
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“The human cultural adaptive radiation is comparable in scope to the genetic adaptive radiations of major taxonomic groups such as mammals and dinosaurs (Pagel & Mace 2004).”
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“Genetic evolution and cultural evolution have been shaping each other for a very long time.”
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“However, the human capacity for behavioral and cultural change is so distinctive that it borders on unique (Deacon 1998; Jablonka & Lamb 2006; Penn et al. 2008).”
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“a human symbolic system consisting of a few handfuls of “object→sign” relations will be able to derive thousands of combinations, each potentially resulting in a different phenotype for selection to act on (Deacon 1998).”
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“The capacity for open-ended learning at the individual level occurs in many species, as Skinner showed for pigeons and rats.”
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“the four inheritance systems discussed by Jablonka and Lamb (2006) – genetic, epigenetics, learning, and symbolic thought – have been interacting with one another throughout our history as a species (Richerson & Boyd 2005).”
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“On the other hand, Skinner’s effort to explain as much as possible in terms of operant conditioning is like a description of the adaptive component of the immune system without the innate component.”
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“The immune system offers an additional insight into the distinctively human capacity for behavioral and cultural change: It is inherently a multi-agent cooperative system.”
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“A major transition might have been required to evolve a multi-agent cooperative system for behavioral and cultural change comparable to the immune system.”
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“Deliberately trying to avoid a symbolically invoked experience can be counterproductive, because it increases attention focused on the experience and its likely negative outcomes. This often later elicits the experience itself, expanding the range of events associated with the aversive event.”
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“Behavior therapy works by altering the selective environment; for example, by repeatedly exposing clients who fear spiders to the objects of their fear without adverse consequences so that they can acquire a wider range of responses than avoidance in a spider’s presence (Craske & Barlow 2008).”
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“In a direct analogy to the epigenetic regulation of gene expression, these methods use what we might call “episymbolic” processes to regulate the impact of symbotypes on behavior.”
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“Moreover, the direct and immediate costs and benefits of behaviors more readily function as consequences that select behaviors, compared with those effects that are more diffuse, delayed, or indirect.”
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“In normal humans, arbitrary learned relations of a particular kind between A and B and between B and C automatically result in predictable derived relations between B and A, C and A, A and C, and C and A.”
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“Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) goes beyond behavior therapy by encouraging clients to reconceptualize their problems (e.g., Beck 2011).”
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“For example, trying not to think of a painful memory by listening to pleasant music will soon enough lead to the music itself invoking the memory (Wenzlaff & Wegner 2000).”
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“Everyday life is rife with examples of people who behave as they do because it makes sense in terms of a conceptual framework, such as a religion, a political ideology, or a scientific theory, not because of a history of operant conditioning of motor responses.”
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“Evolution from a less adapted state to a more adapted state will not take place if the intermediate steps are not adaptive.”
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“The symbolic representation of flying as safe can help counteract sensory input that it is dangerous (e.g., Flatt & King 2010).”
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“Even traits that count as adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word can be maladaptive from the standpoint of human welfare; for example, by benefiting some individuals at the expense of others (e.g., rape, murder, or selling addictive products such as tobacco to youth) or by achieving short-term goals at the expense of long-term goals (e.g., discounting the future).”
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“In general, however, the pattern of results we describe here primarily with ACT applies with equal force to all of the newer acceptance and mindfulness–based treatments, such as dialectical behavior therapy (Linehan 1993) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT; Segal et al. 2002).”
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“ACT integrates metaphors such as these with experiential methods (e.g., exposure, contemplative practices) with the goal of changing the impact of negative symbotypes and creating new behavioral options in pursuit of one’s most important life goals.”
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“In this fashion, new, more flexible responses can extinguish and replace dysfunctional learned and repertoire-narrowing effects (fear and avoidance), in much the same way as occurs with other species.”
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“These dysfunctional outcomes of evolution can be expected no matter what the mechanism of inheritance.”
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“The emphasis in these methods is on detaching oneself from the internal dialogue and becoming mindful of one’s true values, rather than trying to solve problems by eliminating difficult thoughts and feelings.”
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“Paradoxically, accepting that given thoughts and feelings might not go away can be an important step toward making them go away, in the sense that they become less salient and central because they are no longer the focus of attention or have the threatening implications that they once did.”
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“The useful human capacity for creating networks of relations and transferring them across contexts can cause particular symbotypes to dominate over others, even when they are dysfunctional, especially when alternative symbotypes appear unavailable or the paths to them seem obscure.”
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“Operant and classical conditioning are learning processes that evolved during the early history of life (Ginsberg & Jablonka 2010).”
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“A variety of evidence-based practices have emerged over the last few decades that add regulation of the impact of symbotypes to this array of individual change methods, through such techniques as mindfulness meditation, attentional training, emotional acceptance, and deliberate use of perspective taking.”
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“Symbotypes can be changed directly in some cases, producing helpful phenotypic changes.”
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“Equally important, when combined with the clarification of values, acceptance supports the key processes of increasing healthy variation and selection by chosen consequences, allowing the behavioral system to evolve.”
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“Due to these dysfunctional consequences of learning as a Darwin machine, people who are functioning normally as evolutionary processes occasionally find themselves in highly dysfunctional states requiring therapy.”
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“In evolutionary terms, the reason that cognitive therapy adds value to behavior therapy is that people are influenced by a symbolic Darwin machine in addition to a learning Darwin machine.”
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“Experiential avoidance of painful private experience is arguably one of the most persistent and pathologically repertoire-narrowing processes known in human psychology (Hayes et al. 1996; 2006; Wenzlaff & Wegner 2000; see also Kashdan 2009) precisely because it creates an adaptive peak that prevents further healthy hill-climbing processes.”
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“It is no coincidence that some methods of ACT and other acceptance and mindfulness–based interventions converge with religious and meditational practices – systems that have been managing the variation-and-selection process for millennia (Wilson 2002a).”
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“the more important point is that RFT is beginning to delineate some of the proximate mechanisms of the symbolic Darwin machine that is necessary to expand core evolutionary theory.”
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“We begin with the enigma of how people with perfectly healthy brains and bodies can nevertheless become so dysfunctional that they seek therapy.”
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“An example is the common tendency toward experiential avoidance, in which avoidant responses to aversive events are linked to their emotional and cognitive effects, spreading avoidance far beyond its original context (Hayes et al. 1996).”
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“The best way to appreciate the generality of these therapeutic methods across so many domains is from an evolutionary perspective: They are broadly applicable because they help manage variation and selection.”
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“The principles provide a surprisingly practical how-to guide for any group attempting to achieve common objectives, not just for groups attempting to manage common-pool resources.”
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“Polycentric governance. When groups are nested within a larger society, relationships among groups and between them and higher-level entities (such as state and federal regulatory agencies) must reflect the same principles outlined above for single groups”
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“Empirically, she was able to identify eight design principles that enable groups to manage their common-pool resources successfully (Ostrom 1990):”
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“It is recognized by all theoretical frameworks for studying the evolution of social behavior, including multilevel selection theory, inclusive fitness theory, evolutionary game theory, and selfish gene theory.”
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“The field of social psychology, for example, has a long history of emphasizing norms, group identity, and other aspects of group psychology that can be readily interpreted from an evolutionary perspective (Simpson & Kenrick 1997).”
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“The groups adapted to their particular environments through an open-ended process of cultural evolution, not by the expression of genetically evolved modules triggered by the environment.”
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“These frameworks have been argued against one another in the past; but in their most general forms, they become equivalent methods for accounting for evolutionary change in multigroup populations (Okasha 2006; Sober & Wilson 1998; Wilson 2012; Wilson & Wilson 2007).”
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“As we stated at the beginning of this article, a science of positive intentional change is surprisingly close, once successful research programs in the applied behavioral sciences are related to core evolutionary theory.”
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“Moderation analyses showed that ACT was more helpful with patients who were also suffering a mood disorder (Wolitzky-Taylor et al. 2012), suggesting that targeting flexibility is especially useful when dealing with problems that are more complex.”
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“The Institute of Medicine’s report on prevention (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine 2009) documents numerous effective preventive interventions for all phases of human development, from the prenatal period through adolescence.”
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“It is important to stress that human groups do not necessarily adopt the core design principles on their own, as if the principles were purely instinctive.”
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“She did this by assembling a database of groups around the world that were attempting to manage common-pool resources.”
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“The reason that Ostrom could derive the design principles in the first place is because groups varied in their employment of them, both with failures and successes.”
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“Just as the principle of selection by consequences works at the level of individual behavioral and genetic selection, it is fruitful to analyze the selection of group practices by the consequences to the group (Biglan & Glenn 2013).”
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“A science of intentional change at the level of groups draws on a set of evolutionary principles that complements the principles reviewed in the previous section.”
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“The first intervention reduced the very specific practice of convenience store clerks in Wyoming and Wisconsin illegally selling cigarettes to minors.”
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- Not matchedcites Embry and Biglan 2009
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“A natural randomized control study of London high schools conducted by Rutter and colleagues (1979) reveals that improvements in academic success, behavior, delinquency, and attendance came about through strategies that hauntingly echo Ostrom’s observations.”
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“According to Turchin (2003; 2005), empires tend to originate in geographical regions chronically at war, which acts as a crucible for the cultural evolution of exceptionally cooperative societies.”
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“For society to function at these larger scales, new products of cultural evolution are needed to interface with old products of genetic evolution (Johnson et al., in press; Mullins et al., in press; Richerson & Boyd 2005; Stoelhorst & Richerson, in press; Witt & Schwesinger, in press).”
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- Not matchedcites Mullins et al., in press
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“Relations between stepparents and stepchildren are likely to be especially problematic, because there is no genetic interest at all (Daly & Wilson 1988; 2001; but see Buller 2005).”
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“Not only did the Regents Academy students greatly outperform their comparison group in a randomized controlled design, they performed on a par with the average high school student on the state-mandated exams.”
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“The Promise Academy has since improved its success with the older students, but only with an intensive effort that includes an extended day, extended school year, meal and health care programs, and more (Whitehurst & Croft 2010).”
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“If we can solve some of these problems by improving parenting practices, we can substantially improve the quality of human life on our planet.”
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“The core design principles are scale-independent and therefore apply similarly to large groups such as business corporations and nations; however, functional organization at the level of large groups requires an additional set of considerations, as we will outline in the next section.”
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“The Regents Academy operates during the normal school day and year; similar programs are feasible for most public school districts.”
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“At least according to this metric, a single year erased years of academic deficits.”
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“Not only did the Regents Academy students greatly outperform their comparison group in a randomized controlled design, they performed on a par with the average high school student on the state-mandated exams.”
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“Interventions that involve working with at-risk adolescents in groups often backfire because the positive reinforcement of deviant behavior within the peer group outweighs the coaching that the adults are trying to provide.”
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“Also, the Good Behavior Game works in 12th-grade classrooms (Kleinman & Saigh 2011).”
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“This general principle applies as forcefully to global problems such as climate change and the worldwide economy as to a statewide problem such as illegally selling cigarettes to minors.”
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“Strategies that have paid careful attention to the science of behavioral change show remarkable promise.”
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“The core design principles are scale-independent and therefore apply similarly to large groups such as business corporations and nations; however, functional organization at the level of large groups requires an additional set of considerations, as we will outline in the next section.”
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“More than 40 years of research from within the behavioral tradition shows how high levels of coercive interactions can be selected for within families in a tragic coevolutionary race to the bottom (Forgatch et al. 2008; Patterson 1982; Reid et al. 2002).”
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“The game, as played in several thousand classrooms today, has most, if not all, of the core design principles identified by Ostrom for common-pool resource groups.”
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“Contemporary evolutionary science can help us find the right environmental interventions better than we could before.”
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“Interventions that start during the adolescent stage of the life cycle are inherently more challenging than early childhood interventions, because the life challenges, personal habits, and social networks of at-risk adolescents are often firmly entrenched.”
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“In this halting fashion, with much carnage along the way, modern human society manages to function at a remarkably large scale.”
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“A new program for at-risk 9th- and 10th-graders called the Regents Academy, which is the first to be designed explicitly from an evolutionary perspective, achieved impressive results during its first year (Wilson et al. 2011b).”
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“This objective can be accomplished surprisingly easily, once the design principles that enable groups to function as cooperative units have been identified, as the GBG attests.”
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“In the second example, prevention scientists in Australia (Sanders et al. 2002) developed a population-level approach to improving parenting practices called the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program®”
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“We will describe two interventions from the field of prevention science that successfully changed cultural practices at the level of counties, states, and nations.”
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“Moreover, this resulted in a lower incidence of smoking by minors, according to independently collected survey data.”
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“Conventional evolutionary theory provides part of the answer by showing that the interests of parents only partially overlap with the interests of their children.”
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“The difficulty of working with adolescent peer groups extends to classroom interventions.”
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“Tallying the financial costs and benefits, the intervention was highly cost effective for the states, compared with the potential federal penalty of millions of dollars in lost block grants.”
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“These insights are valid as far as they go, but they also provide an outstanding example of how conventional evolutionary theory has failed to include learning and symbolic systems as evolutionary processes in their own right.”
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“Yet it missed the fast-paced process of selection by consequences, resulting in behavioral strategies in parents and offspring that are adaptive in the context of the immediate family environment but profoundly maladaptive over the long term.”
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“In this fashion, expanding core evolutionary theory beyond genetic evolution results in new possibilities for action that were previously invisible.”
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“The novelty of Triple P is that its multilevel approach can change parenting in large populations.”
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“In addition to the two examples described in detail in this section, numerous other interventions have achieved effects in whole populations.”
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“Using very conservative estimates of cost-effectiveness, the dollars saved by implementing Triple P greatly outweigh its implementation cost.”
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“More than 50 experimental evaluations demonstrate that parents locked in a negative coevolutionary spiral with their children can learn to adopt a positive coevolutionary spiral that involves providing high levels of positive reinforcement for cooperative behavior and mild, consistent negative consequences for uncooperative behavior (e.g., de Graaf et al. 2008; Nowak & Heinrichs 2008; Patterson et”
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“All of the interventions we have described were implemented because they targeted outcomes that were concerns of individuals or were well-established threats to public health (e.g., youth tobacco use, child abuse).”
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“An important implication of Darwin machines is that a capacity for change requires certain forms of stability and homeostasis.”
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“Consider the possibility that severe personal and societal dysfunctions, which have defied solutions for decades, can sometimes be relieved by interventions that require just a handful of hours (e.g., Bach et al. 2012; i2013, for struggles with hallucinations or delusions; or Walton & Cohen 2011 for feelings of belonging in minority college students).”
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“Positive intentional change cannot occur unless the “machine” part of the Darwin machine is faithfully maintained.”
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“Evolutionists do not have an already perfected framework to offer other disciplines.”
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“Table 2 lists seven community-wide interventions that have been evaluated in randomized trials and shown to affect the incidence or prevalence of one or more youth problems, including tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use and delinquency.”
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“In a longitudinal study that began in the 1980s in the Baltimore City School District, the GBG was implemented in the first and second grades for some classrooms but not others, in a randomized controlled design. No intervention took place after the second grade.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
What the sources say
- Disputedcites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Prior Research section dates this Baltimore City trial to the 1993–1994 school year, not the 1980s. Method > Study Design confirms that classrooms were randomized, but says the interventions were implemented only in first grade, not in both first and second grades. It also says the Good Behavior Game was part of the classroom-centered intervention, rather than a stand-alone intervention in this trial. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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- Supportedcites Kellam et al. 2008 source
Methods §2.1 describes a Baltimore trial begun in 1985, with classrooms randomly assigned to GBG or control conditions. It states that children received GBG in first and second grades and that the trial involved two years of exposure, supporting the claim that the study intervention did not continue after second grade. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Behavior therapy was gradually supplemented (not replaced) by cognitive therapy, which in turn has been supplemented (not replaced) by acceptance and mindfulness–based techniques with proven efficacy (Hayes et al. 2011b; Hofmann et al. 2010), in what is sometimes called a “third wave” of cognitive behavioral methods (Hayes 2004).”
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- Not matchedcites Hayes et al. 2011b
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Partly supportedcites Hofmann et al. 2010 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report improvements in anxiety and mood symptoms with mindfulness-based therapy, supporting the mindfulness-efficacy part of the cited phrase. The Discussion says the review excluded Acceptance and Commitment Therapy from its analyses, so it does not establish the efficacy of acceptance-based techniques. The historical progression and “third wave” label are attached to other citations in the sentence. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hayes 2004 source
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“Focusing on chosen values as the selection criteria for action can empower people to confront their anxieties (Roemer et al. 2008), face the challenges of chronic illness (Lundgren et al. 2008), or create lives in the face of chronic pain (Vowles & McCracken 2008).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Roemer et al. 2008 source
The Methods (Treatment; page unavailable) describe helping clients identify valued directions and try valued activities they had previously avoided. The paper also reports reduced GAD symptoms after this acceptance-based treatment (Abstract; page unavailable). Roemer et al. is cited for the anxiety-related clause, not the separate claims about chronic illness or pain. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lundgren et al. 2008 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vowles & McCracken 2008 source
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“Research shows that just these cognitive elements alone are helpful, resulting in improved outcomes because of how patients appraise their symptoms (Meuret et al. 2010).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
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- Supportedcites Meuret et al. 2010 source
The Method (Interventions) describes cognitive therapy focused on changing patients’ appraisals without additional therapeutic techniques. The Results (Mediation of Changes in Panic Symptom Severity over Time) find that changes in symptom appraisal mediated reductions in panic severity in the cognitive-therapy condition, though the relationship was bidirectional and was not found for the respiratory-treatment condition. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Embry and Biglan (2008) compiled a list of more than 50 evidence-based kernels (see Table 1 for a sample)”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.1. Change at the level of individuals
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- Supportedcites Embry & Biglan 2008 source
In “Designating Example Kernels for This Paper,” the authors state that Table 1 presents 52 kernels and describe them as examples meeting their evidence-based definition. That directly supports the claim that they compiled more than 50 evidence-based kernels. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Extreme child abuse is the tip of an iceberg of parenting practices that harm not just the short-term but the long-term welfare of children, resulting in depression, academic failure, teenage pregnancy, obesity, substance abuse, and crime—generically called Adverse Childhood Experiences, made famous by the studies of middle-class persons enrolled in Kaiser Permanente (Anda, Brown, Felitti, Dube, &”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Anda, Brown, Felitti, Dube, & Giles, 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Background (Table 1; page not available) reports associations between adverse childhood experiences and depression, teen pregnancy, obesity, and alcohol or illicit drug use. The Methods define ACEs to include abuse and household dysfunction, and identify the participants as Kaiser Permanente members. The paper does not report academic failure or crime as outcomes, establish short-term harms, or show that the listed outcomes were caused by parenting practices. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Anda, Butchart, Felitti, & Brown, 2010 source
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“In high school, they scored higher on standardized achievement tests, had a greater chance of graduating and attending college, and had a reduced need for special education services.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Conclusions and Implications section reports all four outcomes, but for the classroom-centered (CC) intervention, which combined the Good Behavior Game (GBG) with an enhanced academic curriculum. The Discussion says the study cannot determine GBG’s independent contribution. The Results also measure special education service use across Grades 1–12, not specifically in high school. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Partly supportedcites Kellam et al. 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (section 3.7; page unavailable) report somewhat higher high-school graduation rates among GBG youth, but say the overall difference was not statistically significant. The Methods (sections 2.3.2 and 2.4; pages unavailable) mention college attendance and standardized achievement measures, but the passages do not report higher high-school test scores or greater college attendance for GBG youth. A search for special education found only a description of which first-grade classrooms were eligible for the trial, not a reduction in students’ need for services. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“In college, they had a reduced risk for suicidal ideation, lower rates of antisocial personality disorder, and lower rates of violent and criminal behavior.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Could not verifycites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not provided) reports improved educational outcomes through age 19, not reduced suicidal ideation, antisocial personality disorder, or violent and criminal behavior among GBG students in college. Searches for those outcomes found only background and Methods passages about predictors of later antisocial behavior and crime, not intervention effects on the claimed outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.76)
- Partly supportedcites Kellam et al. 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports a GBG impact on suicidal ideation and describes reductions in violent and criminal behavior; Table 10 reports lower ASPD rates for GBG participants than controls. But the Methods (§2.3, page unavailable) describe follow-up of young adults aged 19–21, not outcomes specifically among students in college. The overall ASPD comparison in Table 10 is also not statistically significant (p = 0.07), although the comparison for highly aggressive, disruptive participants is (p = 0.02). (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“By the sixth grade, students from the GBG classrooms were less likely to be diagnosed with conduct disorder, to have been suspended from school, or to be judged in need of mental health services.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Bradshaw et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Prior Research section reports all three sixth-grade outcomes, but for children assigned to the classroom-centered (CC) intervention, which combined the Good Behavior Game with an enhanced academic curriculum. The Discussion says the study cannot determine the Good Behavior Game’s independent contribution, so attributing those outcomes to GBG alone overstates the source. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Could not verifycites Kellam et al. 2008 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (§1.1; page unavailable) reports lower antisocial behavior by middle school, but not sixth-grade conduct-disorder diagnoses, suspensions, or judgments of need for mental health services. Searches for those specific outcomes found no passage in our copy that addresses the claim; the paper says its own focus is young-adult outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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“Two years after the start of the study, the counties that did not receive the program showed large increases in substantiated child abuse, out-of-home placements due to child abuse problems, and increases in hospital-reported child injuries.”
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What the sources say
- Supportedcites Prinz et al. 2009 source
Table 3 (Results, Population Outcomes) shows increases in control counties from pre- to post-intervention for all three indicators: substantiated maltreatment, out-of-home placements, and hospital or emergency-room maltreatment injuries. The Implementation section identifies the intervention period as two years, and the Discussion describes large effects across the three indicators. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“However, the counties that got Triple P performed significantly better on all three measures: Fewer children were abused, as indicated by both substantiated maltreatment and hospital reports of injuries due to abuse, and fewer children went into foster care.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Prinz et al. 2009 source
Table 3 (Results, Population Outcomes) reports statistically significant differences favoring Triple P counties on substantiated maltreatment, out-of-home placements, and maltreatment-related hospital or emergency-room injuries. The Discussion clarifies that substantiated maltreatment rose in both groups but rose less in Triple P counties; the other two indicators decreased there. The reported differences are relative to control counties, not reductions from baseline on all three measures. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Prinz, Sanders, and colleagues (2009) tested Triple P in 18 South Carolina counties and showed for the first time that it is possible to prevent child abuse in entire populations.”
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What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Prinz et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract reports a trial in 18 counties and calls it the first to show a preventive impact on child maltreatment at the population level; the Discussion reports improvements in three population indicators. The Method (Design) identifies the location only as “a southeastern state,” not South Carolina, so our copy does not support that geographic detail. It also specifies that Triple P was implemented in nine counties, with the other nine serving as controls. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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In the paper
“They randomized 9 counties to receive the intervention and 9 to receive no intervention.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Prinz et al. 2009 source
The Method (Design) states that 18 counties were randomly assigned to Triple P dissemination or a control condition, and the Results (Implementation) identifies nine Triple P counties. The control condition received services as usual without Triple P, so “no intervention” is accurate if it means no Triple P intervention, not no services at all. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Prinz et al. (2009) point out that for a community with 100,000 children, the differences translate into 688 fewer cases of child abuse, 240 fewer out-of-home placements, and 60 fewer children needing hospitalization.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
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- Partly supportedcites Prinz et al. 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion gives all three figures, but specifies a community with 100,000 children under age 8, not children of any age. It also describes the 60 as children with injuries requiring hospitalization or emergency-room treatment, rather than hospitalization alone. Page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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In the paper
“The only solution to this problem is to become wise managers of evolutionary processes (Wilson 2011c).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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- Not matchedcites Wilson 2011c
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“All species have evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that enable them to respond adaptively to their environments.”
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“We begin with the basic suggestion that evolution must be at the center of any science of change.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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“The applied behavioral sciences include well-validated examples of successfully managing behavioral and cultural change at scales ranging from individuals to small groups to large populations.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > Abstract
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In the paper
“evolution is the study of how organisms change in relation to their environments, not only by genetics but also by mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that evolved by genetic evolution, including some that count as evolutionary processes in their own right”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
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“A fully rounded evolutionary perspective requires equal attention to functional design, proximate mechanisms, developmental pathways, and phylogenetic histories (Tinbergen 1963).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.2. Evolution as a domain-general process
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tinbergen 1963 source
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“It has many hallmarks of massive modularity, but it also has the open-ended capacity to rapidly evolve new defenses in the form of antibodies.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.3. Learning from the immune system about evolutionary psychology
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In the paper
“These two facts often appear in opposition to each other, as if evolution implies genetic determinism, which in turn implies an incapacity for change over short time intervals.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change
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In the paper
“Skinner’s passage leaves no doubt that he regarded the open-ended capacity for behavioral and cultural change as both (1) a product of genetic evolution and (2) an evolutionary process in its own right.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Skinner 1981 source
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In the paper
“In our opinion, this is a profound mistake needing correction to achieve an integrated science of change.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
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In the paper
“These points apply to learning and culture as well as genetic evolution.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.2. Evolution as a domain-general process
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In the paper
“On the other, as with all species, the human brain is an elaborate product of genetic evolution.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change
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- Rests on an assumption: The human brain is an elaborate product of genetic evolution.
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In the paper
“Tooby and Cosmides could be correct about massive modularity and still would be wrong to reject the blank slate assumption for learning and culture – insofar as massive modularity leads to nongenetic mechanisms of inheritance.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.2. Evolution as a domain-general process
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In the paper
“Macrophages can sense and engulf foreign particles, for example, but they have no capacity to change their sensory abilities.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.3. Learning from the immune system about evolutionary psychology
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In the paper
“Evolutionary processes that rely on nongenetic inheritance mechanisms either evolved genetically or were created by humans, as Skinner appreciated in the abstract quotes above.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.2. Evolution as a domain-general process
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Skinner 1981 source
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In the paper
“Cognitive theorists stressed that the enormous complexity of the mind needed direct study, in contrast to Skinner’s insistence on focusing on the functional relations of environment and behavior (Brewer 1974; Bruner 1973).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 2. Toward a basic science of change > 2.1. B. F. Skinner: Evolutionary psychologist
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Brewer 1974
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- Not matchedcites Bruner 1973
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“Genetic evolution is a domain-general process, but the mechanisms of genetic inheritance are many and specific in their functions (e.g., error correction mechanisms, transcription mechanisms).”
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“The ability to change behavioral and cultural practices in practical terms can profit from a basic scientific understanding of behavioral and cultural change.”
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“core evolutionary theory needs to expand beyond genetics to include other inheritance systems, such as environmentally induced changes in gene expression (epigenetics), mechanisms of social learning found in many species, and the human capacity for symbolic thought that results in an almost unlimited variety of cognitive constructions, each motivating a suite of behaviors subject to selection (Jab”
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“This integration needs to be a two-way street, involving not only contributions of evolutionary theory to the human-related disciplines but also the reverse.”
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“Immunologists distinguish between the innate and the adaptive components of the immune system (see Sompayrac 2008 for an excellent tutorial).”
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“Ironically, although Tooby and Cosmides praised genetic evolution as a domain-general process, capable of adapting organisms to virtually any environment, they failed to generalize this insight to include other evolutionary processes.”
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“Evolutionists know that heritable variation is not omnipresent and a sufficient number of generations often has not elapsed for species to become fully adapted to their environments.”
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“In this fashion, the concept of elaborate innateness that became associated with EP sat in opposition to the open-ended capacity for change that became associated with what Tooby and Cosmides branded the SSSM.”
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“Once this misformulation is accepted, then the capacity for short-term change becomes conceptualized as outside the orbit of evolutionary theory.”
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“Properly understood, these two words reconcile the apparent paradox of genetic innateness and the capacity for open-ended change over the short term.”
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“As a result, an enormous amount of integration must occur before a science of human behavioral and cultural change can center on evolution.”
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“A mature EP needs to include elements of the SSSM associated with major thinkers such as Emile Durkheim, B. F. Skinner, and Clifford Geertz.”
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“The central metaphor of the cognitive revolution was that the mind is like a computer that we must understand in mechanistic detail to know how it works.”
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“In particular, the polarized distinction between evolutionary psychology and the standard social science model (Pinker 1997; 2002; Tooby & Cosmides 1992) was a wrong turn we must correct.”
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- Not matchedcites Pinker 1997; 2002
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“This is also what Durkheim (tr. 1982) perceived for cultural evolution when he wrote in 1895 that “individual natures are merely the indeterminate material that the social factor molds and transforms” (p. 106).”
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“Nevertheless, blank slate adaptationist reasoning remains one of the most powerful tools in the evolutionary toolkit, and Tooby and Cosmides use it liberally to develop their vision of EP.”
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“On the one hand, human behavior and culture appear elaborately flexible.”
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“Seligman reviewed a body of evidence showing that the parameters of learning processes had to be viewed in light of the evolutionary preparedness of organisms to relate particular events.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Seligman 1970 source
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“This might be because the human capacity requires a degree of teamwork among group members that most other vertebrate species lack.”
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“These higher-order relations are abstracted from immediate physical properties, becoming somewhat independent of them, and once established are maintained by their utility, coherence, and role in a social community.”
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“Humans are most distinctive in their capacity for symbolic thought. The rudiments of symbolic thought might exist in other species, but humans possess a full-blown inheritance system with combinatorial possibilities to rival genetic inheritance”
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- Not matchedcites Deacon 1998
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“Evolutionary scientists might be surprised to learn of proven methods for accomplishing positive behavioral and cultural change at all scales, from individuals to large populations.”
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“Evolution requires heritable variation, but the mechanism of inheritance need not be genetic.”
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“A single B-cell in full production mode can produce about 2,000 unattached antibody molecules every second.”
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“they show how epigenetics, learned behavior, and symbolic systems also qualify as inheritance systems and how all four systems interact with one another to produce evolutionary change.”
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“Individuals with immune systems that failed to exhibit teamwork were not among our ancestors.”
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“Outside the applied academic disciplines, commercial marketers and political strategists also attempt to influence behavioral and cultural change – often very successfully and not necessarily for the common good.”
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“Dozens of specialized cell types coordinate their activities through a chemical signaling system to achieve the common goal of protecting the organism.”
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“Yet, social constructivists did not converge on the idea of cultural evolution as a Darwin machine comparable to the immune system and explore how that level of analysis interacts with genetic, epigenetic, and learning processes.”
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“The innate component of the immune system protects against most disease organisms but is helpless against those that manage to evade its automated defenses.”
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“Simultaneously, the B-cells producing the antibody are stimulated to reproduce and to ramp up their production.”
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“The meaning of the word remains consistent due to its place in a network of symbolic relations, and every set of symbolic relations leads to a suite of behaviors that potentially influences survival and reproduction (Hayes et al. 2001).”
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“Collectively, the 100 million antibodies can grab onto nearly any conceivable organic surface.”
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“Applied behavioral scientists in any particular discipline might be surprised to learn how much it can benefit from integration with all other basic and applied disciplines, using evolution as the common theoretical framework.”
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“The disciplines, in turn, are largely unknown to modern evolutionary scientists.”
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“This kind of integration is already occurring at a pace that is fast in cultural evolutionary terms – but it can go even faster.”
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“In this sense, a network of symbolic relations that regulates behavior is like a genotype that produces a phenotype. We will call it a “symbotype” to stress the comparison.”
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“Yet, not only does the adaptive component rely upon the innate component, it too is elaborately innate.”
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“The adaptive component of the immune system includes the ability to create roughly 100 million different antibodies.”
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“When complete, we will have a proper basic scientific foundation for an applied science of intentional change.”
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“yet the vast majority of evolutionary research has focused on genetic inheritance mechanisms – so much that for most people “evolution” is nearly synonymous with “genes.””
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“When a given antibody grabs onto an invading disease organism, it signals the innate component of the immune system to attack; the antibody itself acts only as a tag.”
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“At a finer level of detail, the complex but systematic processes that create and select behavioral and cultural traits will differ from those that create and select antibodies.”
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“Insofar as evolutionists failed to include symbolic inheritance systems in core evolutionary theory, social constructivists were right to point out that something was missing.”
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“The theories behind these methods are highly relevant to the development of core evolutionary theory, and the empirical results can help take evolutionary theorizing beyond the “just-so” storytelling stage.”
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“A good example is the intellectual tradition of social constructivism, which has long appeared to be opposed to evolutionary accounts of human nature (Segerstrale 2001; Wilson 2005; 2009).”
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“Like the basic human behavioral sciences and the humanities, the applied human behavioral sciences are a vast archipelago of disciplines that seldom communicate with one another.”
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“Other genetically evolved processes are required for the antibodies that bind to antigens to signal the innate component of the immune system, for the B-cells producing the antibodies to reproduce and ramp up production, to keep the antibody circulating after elimination of the disease organism, and so on.”
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“The analogy between the immune system and other Darwin machines should not go too far.”
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“The scientific caliber of any particular applied discipline, in terms of theoretical justification and empirical methods, ranges from exemplary to nonexistent. Explicit or implicit recognition of evolution is highly variable, and hardly any of the disciplines consider recent developments in evolutionary science.”
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“The main analogies that we wish to stress are (1) the reconciliation of elaborate genetic innateness with elaborate open-ended flexibility and (2) the need for some Darwin machines to be multi-agent cooperative systems.”
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“CBT and modern acceptance and mindfulness–based therapies are empirically supported therapeutic methods, tested by using the gold standard of evaluation: the randomized controlled trial (RCT).”
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“Increasing retention of new behavior by practicing skills is as applicable to experts in almost any field (Ericsson & Ward 2007) as it is to personality-disordered clients trying to establish a new way of relating to their own distress (Lindenboim et al. 2007).”
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“Therapies that teach people simply to notice their thoughts without automatically having to obey them also induce healthy flexibility that can help people solve panic disorders (Arch et al. 2012a; 2012b), stop smoking (Gifford et al. 2011), stay out of the hospital when suffering psychotic hallucinations (Bach et al. 2012), deal with diabetes (Gregg et al. 2007), or lose weight (Lillis et al. 2009”
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“In both groups, improvements were best accounted for by greater psychological flexibility toward difficult thoughts (Arch et al. 2012b), but ACT improved more on general and thought-specific measures of psychological flexibility (Arch et al. 2012a; 2012b).”
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“It follows that if learning qualifies as a Darwin machine, so that individuals can be regarded as open-ended evolving systems with their actions selected by consequences, then evolution will sometimes take them where they prefer not to go.”
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“ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness methods to increase healthy flexibility and variability in the person’s actions (emotional, cognitive, and behavioral) and examines values to change the selection criterion for these actions.”
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“Even better, we have no need to speculate, because CBT and modern acceptance and mindfulness–based therapies are empirically supported therapeutic methods, tested by”
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“Powerful metaphors and exercises help to manage the variation-and-selection process, altering the normal, automatic behavioral impact of difficult emotions and thoughts – in effect, adding symbolic systems that regulate the impact of symbolic events.”
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“Through organized examination and testing of beliefs in addition to behavior therapy methods, CBT uses this universal human capacity for therapeutic purposes, and it is one of the best empirically supported therapeutic interventions (INSERM 2004).”
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“Cascades of these more subtle effects of behaviors can easily outweigh direct effects, such that direct and immediate consequences are not always a reliable selection criterion for long-term adaptation.”
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“That many human phobias have clear links to dangers that existed in the genetic ancestral environment (e.g., spiders, snakes, heights, closed spaces, open spaces, and strangers) can be regarded as part of the innate component of the learning Darwin machine, analogous to the innate component of the immune system (Nesse & Williams 1995).”
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“Similarly, the generation of greater response variability during extinction of learned avoidance responses appears to be innate, extending across the animal world (Bouton et al. 2001).”
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“Avoiding these connections and their emotional results is reinforcing over the short term but greatly reduces healthy behavioral variability over the long term.”
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“In terms of the learning Darwin machine, the short-term transient benefits are more reinforcing than the long-term diffuse costs.”
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“ACT encourages people to identify their most important life goals and to keep them firmly in mind as criteria for selecting behaviors. At the same time, it promotes a mindful, open, and curious stance toward one’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences, which reduces their automatic dysfunctional interference with the pursuit of important life goals.”
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“A laboratory rat would benefit from behavior therapy but not from therapy that employs symbolic language; a human benefits from both because the symbolic Darwin machine was added to the learning Darwin machine over human evolutionary history but did not replace it.”
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“We know not only that these methods work. In some cases, we also know why they work, and often the processes of change make sense in light of evolutionary theory.”
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“Instead, humans have evolved specialized abilities for relating events (Penn et al. 2008); due to this evolved capacity, humans can learn to create networks of symbolic relations and transfer whole networks across contexts.”
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“From week 13 to the end of a 1-year follow-up, however, the ACT group experienced about 25% additional improvement, whereas the other group maintained their original gains but did not continue to improve.”
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“RFT derives from the functional contextual wing of behaviorism, but it acknowledges that Skinner failed in his quest to explain language and other forms of symbolic thought in terms of simple operant conditioning.”
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“In other words, ACT deliberately manages the variation-and-selection process, which makes it easy to relate to core evolutionary theory.”
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“When the elements of behavioral, cognitive, and mindfulness-based therapies are examined in detail, they map impressively onto the elements of learning and symbolic thought as Darwin machines.”
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“One of the most basic facts about evolution is that it results in both dysfunctional and functional outcomes. Many products of evolution are not adaptive in any sense.”
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“In operant conditioning, behaviors are selected not only by differential survival and reproduction but by reinforcers, which Skinner properly interpreted as genetically evolved adaptations that lead, on average, to the adoption of genetically adaptive behaviors.”
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“An important concept from RFT that ACT uses is cognitive fusion, which we can understand in evolutionary terms as the loss of behavioral flexibility.”
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“Billions of dollars go into research showing the effects of genetic variation and the regulation of gene expression on phenotypic variation, or on developing techniques of “gene therapy” that involve changing the genes of an individual person or the expression of their genes.”
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“Because evolutionists are familiar with the genotype-phenotype relationship, they fully expect that by changing the genotype (e.g., by inducing a mutation in DNA), or by changing the ability of the genotype to be transcribed or translated (e.g., by methylation of DNA), they can change the phenotype.”
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“We will describe a particular kind of mindfulness-based therapy called “acceptance and commitment therapy” (ACT, pronounced as one word), in part because it is well-validated and in part because it rests on a strong theoretical foundation called “relational frame theory” (RFT), which can profitably be related to core evolutionary theory (Hayes et al. 2001).”
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“The essence of metaphorical thinking is that a network of relations formed in one context (e.g., a rose) can transfer to another context (e.g., my love).”
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“Ostrom shared the 2009 Nobel in economics for showing that groups of people are capable of managing their common resources on their own, but only when certain conditions are met.”
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“The conflict between individual self-interest and behaving “for the good of the group” has occupied center stage in evolutionary biology since the 1960s (Williams 1966).”
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“The one-to-many relationship between a design principle and its implementations can be demonstrated in the laboratory. In one classic experiment, the same phenotypic trait of wing vein length was selected for in a number of isolated laboratory populations of drosophila (Cohan 1984). There was a phenotypic response to selection in each population, but the specific genes that evolved differed among”
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“The fact that elements of ACT and other acceptance and mindfulness–based methods are often found in spiritual and religious practices suggests that some of these practices evolved by cultural evolution as strategies that help people transcend immediate consequences in order to achieve longer term success.”
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“Local autonomy. When a group is nested within a larger society, such as a farmer’s association dealing with the state government, the group must have enough authority to create its own social organization and make its own decisions, as outlined in 1–6.”
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“We will focus on the field of education, where a number of programs have converged on the core design principles and appear to work exceptionally well, compared with the conventional American classroom environment.”
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“These core design principles, which were originally informed by political science and empirically derived from the performance of contemporary groups, are consilient with the basic evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in all species and the specific factors that caused humans to become such a highly cooperative species (Wilson et al., in press; see also Boehm 2011; Gintis 2007a; 2007b; 2009; Gint”
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“The core design principles that enable groups to function as adaptive units are so general that they have been independently derived on other “islands” of the applied behavioral science “archipelago,” without any awareness of Ostrom or core evolutionary theory.”
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“An alternative school called the Sudbury Valley School (preK–12; www.sudval.org) embodies most of Ostrom’s design principles and functions exceptionally well.”
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“A second body of information is our own particular evolutionary history, resulting in our unique ability to cooperate in groups that need not be genetically related, to think symbolically, and so on, as recounted in previous sections of this article.”
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“Monitoring. Even when most members of a group mean well, the temptation to receive more than one’s share of the benefits and to contribute less than one’s share of the costs always exists. In addition, at least some members might try to game the system actively. If lapses and transgressions are undetectable, the group enterprise is unlikely to succeed.”
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“Proportional costs and benefits. Having some members do all the work whereas others receive the benefits cannot continue over a long term. In the most successful groups, the expectation is that everyone does his or her fair share and those who go beyond the call of duty receive appropriate recognition. When leaders receive special privileges, it is because they have special responsibilities for”
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“Fast and fair conflict resolution. When conflicts arise, they must be resolved quickly and in a manner that the parties consider fair. This typically involves a hearing in which respected members of the group, who can be expected to be impartial, make an equitable decision.”
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“Once we appreciate that all evolutionary processes result in both dysfunctional and functional outcomes, and that even functional outcomes from an evolutionary perspective can be dysfunctional from the perspective of long-term human welfare, the need to manage the variation-and-selection processes taking place all around us to prevent the development of human problems becomes manifest.”
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“The unified academic study of human sociality can then help to improve the efficacy of real-world groups.”
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“Graduated sanctions. Friendly, gentle reminders are usually sufficient to keep people in solid citizen mode, but there must also be the capacity to apply stronger sanctions, such as punishment or exclusion, if transgressions continue.”
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“Neighborhoods seldom have a strong sense of group identity (a violation of design principle #1). Groups frequently consist of a few beleaguered volunteers who do most of the work (a violation of design principle #2). Discipline in schools is frequently neither fast nor based on a procedure that the students perceive as fair (a violation of design principle #6).”
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“These two bodies of information provide a framework for integrating human-related academic disciplines such as sociology, social psychology, biological and cultural anthropology, history, religious studies, economics, and political science.”
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“Reading, writing, and mathematics were invented only a few thousand years ago and might not be learnable with the same ease as hunting, gathering, and warfare (Geary 2004; 2011).”
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“The same one-to-many relationship exists for the cultural evolution of symbotypes. Ostrom’s database of attempts to manage common-pool resources contains groups that were faced with an identical problem—attempts to manage irrigation systems by different Nepalese farmer associations, for example (Ostrom 1990). The groups arrived at different implementations of the various design principles (e.g.,”
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“Gray (2009; 2013 notes that in hunter-gatherer societies and many traditional cultures, learning and teaching take place largely without explicit instruction. Instead, children spend most of their time in mixed-age groups. The older children are strongly motivated to become adult, and the younger children are strongly motivated to become like the older children. Learning the skills and roles of”
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- Not matchedcites Gray 2009; 2013
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“In this way, applied disciplines largely unknown to evolutionists can expand core evolutionary theory, and core evolutionary theory can provide a general theoretical foundation for the applied disciplines.”
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“Some interventions involve change at the individual level, using principles similar to behavioral, cognitive, and mindfulness-based therapies. Others involve change at the level of small groups and large populations, as described in sections 3.2 and 3.3 below.”
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“The one-to-many relationship also exists for antibody formation: People evolve different antibodies in response to the same disease because more than one antibody can successfully bind to a given antigen; which one becomes amplified is largely a matter of chance.”
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“Natural selection is based on relative fitness; and the traits that maximize the fitness of individuals, relative to members of their own group, are typically different from the traits that maximize the fitness of the group as a whole.”
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“Group identity. Members of the most successful groups have a strong sense of group identity and know the rights and obligations of membership, along with the boundaries of the resource they are managing.”
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“The evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in all social species provides one body of information that can be brought to bear on real-world human groups.”
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“The need for local groups to discover the implementations that work best for them is one reason why cookie-cutter policy solutions do not work and groups need local autonomy (design principle #7).”
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“However, an additional set of considerations are required for groups to function as “corporate units” in this sense.”
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“Consensus decision making. People hate being bossed around but will work hard to implement a consensus decision – to do what we want, not what they want. In addition, the best decisions often require knowledge of local circumstances that we have and they lack, making consensus decision making doubly important.”
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“Genetic evolution and the immune system are understood in rich mechanistic detail. Learning and symbolic thought are much more poorly understood, in part because they have only recently been envisioned as evolutionary processes comparable to genetic evolution and the immune system.”
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“In short, prevention scientists have developed the same ability to manage behavioral and cultural change in everyday settings that clinical scientists are generating in therapeutic settings – and they can prove it.”
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- Not matchedcites National Research Council & Institute of Medicine 2009
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“The principles that we have outlined for individuals are equally relevant to groups of all sizes. Groups can benefit by increasing their behavioral flexibility and reflecting on their values in selecting their practices no less than individuals can.”
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“The evolutionary principles used to design the Regents Academy include the core design principles, the need for learning to occur in a safe and secure social environment, and the need for long-term learning goals to be rewarding also over the short term.”
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- Not matchedcites Wilson et al. 2011b
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“Competing as groups is highly motivating and causes peer pressure within each group to reward good rather than deviant behavior.”
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“Conventional schools can also implement the design principles more than they customarily do.”
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“There will be no between-planet selection, so addressing these problems will require another kind of selection – the intentional selection of policies with large-scale and long-term human welfare in mind.”
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“Our discussion of small groups also highlights the value of selecting outcomes at the group level – the cultural equivalent of group selection in genetic evolution.”
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“Changing behavioral and cultural practices at a large spatial and temporal scale is inherently more challenging than for individuals and small groups – but still possible with a sufficiently clear vision of what needs to be done.”
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“The most cooperative expand into empires, but then cultural evolution within the empires favors practices that eventually lead to their collapse.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
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- Not matchedcites Turchin (2003; 2005)
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“The Juniper Gardens projects in Kansas City, Kansas, show robust longitudinal academic results using peer-to-peer tutoring within classrooms (Greenwood 1991a; 1991b), which also embraces the core principles of Ostrom’s key findings.”
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- Not matchedcites Greenwood 1991a; 1991b
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In the paper
“Children raised in cooperative social environments have multiple assets, and those raised in uncooperative environments have multiple liabilities.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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In the paper
“The Promise Academy, a school associated with the highly publicized Harlem Children’s Zone, started in 2004 with a first-grade and a sixth-grade class (Tough 2008). Intensive efforts to improve academic performance, based on the same educational principles in both grades, succeeded for the first-graders but failed for the sixth-graders.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Not matchedcites Tough 2008
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“Humans evolved to maximize their lifetime reproductive success, which can involve parents withholding support from particular children (Trivers 1972).”
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- Not matchedcites Trivers 1972
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In the paper
“Second, adolescents might have become more difficult to change as groups, as peer groups play a larger role in their lives than in young children’s lives. The latter interpretation implies that at-risk adolescents might be capable of transformational change given an appropriately designed social environment that the adolescent peer group accepts.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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In the paper
“Once we appreciate that people of all ages are adapting to their immediate environments, it becomes clear that the wrong environmental intervention will make change appear difficult or impossible, whereas the right one will make change appear effortless.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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In the paper
“The core design principles that Ostrom derived for common-pool resource groups can be generalized from an evolutionary perspective and are equally relevant to other kinds of groups (Wilson et al., in press).”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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- Not matchedcites Wilson et al., in press
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In the paper
“First, it is possible that at-risk adolescents have become difficult to change as individuals, because of developmental mechanisms that are less flexible later in life than in early childhood.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.2. Change at the level of small groups
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In the paper
“The challenges will be daunting, but at least in principle, the right kind of environmental intervention could cause the difficult to become easy, as is already beginning at the level of individuals and small groups.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
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In the paper
“One example is increased taxation on alcohol, a policy that has been shown to reduce alcohol consumption, alcohol-related morbidity and mortality, traffic accident deaths, sexually transmitted disease, violence, and crime.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
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In the paper
“Indeed, the importance of consensus decision making for groups to function as cooperative units accentuates the need for democratic processes to formulate benign social policies.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“If improving the human condition is our goal, there is no alternative to becoming wise managers of evolutionary processes.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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“Variation, selection, and heredity comprise an open-ended process capable of adapting organisms to their current environments according to the selection criteria.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“The concept of human symbolic thought as a Darwin machine is especially new for nearly all disciplines.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“For decades, evolution has been marginalized in the human behavioral sciences as a process that can explain the rest of life, our physical bodies, and a few basic urges, but has little to say about our rich behavioral and cultural diversity. Evolutionists, in turn, have concentrated almost entirely on genetic evolution, which includes the concept of phenotypic plasticity, but which did not”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Jablonka & Lamb 2006 source
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In the paper
“Just as evolutionary biologists are accustomed to studying all traits in all species, a science of intentional change centered on evolution can be applied to any real-world behavioral or cultural issue.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“Triple P is now being implemented in more than 20 nations worldwide, using a dissemination strategy as novel as its implementation strategy.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 3. Toward an applied science of change > 3.3 Change at the level of large populations
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In the paper
“Rather, the interventions created conditions that favored the selection of behaviors or cultural practices that were desired by individuals and communities.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“Much progress was made, but a particular configuration of ideas that became associated with evolutionary psychology (EP) set itself apart from the so-called standard social science model (SSSM), which includes the very disciplines that have been successful in developing the beginnings of a science of intentional behavior change.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“A step in this direction is to achieve a consensus that the paradox of elaborate genetic innateness and an elaborate capacity for open-ended change can be reconciled through the concept of Darwin machines.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“Despite its success during the first year, staff turnover threatened its continuity. New staff had to be oriented to the program, requiring procedures that were different from the program itself.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“The fact that symbolic systems, like genotypes and antibodies, exist in nearly infinite variety and that a symbotype-phenotype relationship exists that is similar to the genotype-phenotype relationship is profound in its implications for a science of intentional change.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“Evolutionists therefore have much to learn from branches of the human behavioral sciences where learning as a variation-and-selection process has occupied center stage for decades.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“A science of intentional change need not compromise norms of respect for the rights of individuals.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“The Regents Academy for at-risk high school students (Wilson et al. 2011a; 2011b), which was explicitly designed from an evolutionary perspective, is an encouraging sign. It represents an integration of disciplines such as political science, education, and clinical psychology that had not taken place in the past but came together easily from an evolutionary perspective.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Wilson et al. 2011a; 2011b
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In the paper
“Accomplishing the first goal requires resolving the paradox of elaborate genetic innateness and elaborate open-ended flexibility.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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In the paper
“The policies are winnowed by selection to a degree – it is not as if we are doing everything wrong – but there is tremendous room for improvement by using an expanded evolutionary theory to organize our perception and the most rigorous experimental methods to evaluate the consequences of our actions.”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 4. General discussion
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The paper relies on this without support.
Current ability to change behavioral and cultural practices lags far behind the ability to manipulate the physical environment.
“Despite some notable successes, some of which we highlight in this article, our ability to change our behavioral and cultural practices lags far behind our ability to manipulate the physical environment.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Applied behavioral science examples are largely unknown beyond their disciplinary boundaries because there is no unifying theoretical framework.
“However, these examples are largely unknown beyond their disciplinary boundaries, for lack of a unifying theoretical framework.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The human behavioral sciences are currently in disarray on the subject of change.
“The human behavioral sciences are currently in disarray on the subject of change.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Every human-related discipline has its own configuration of ideas that seldom relate to other disciplines or to modern evolutionary science.
“Every discipline has its own configuration of ideas that seldom relate to other disciplines or to modern evolutionary science.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The human brain is an elaborate product of genetic evolution.
“On the other, as with all species, the human brain is an elaborate product of genetic evolution.”
The paper relies on this without support.
No examples of scientifically guided social change compare to putting a man on the moon.
“No examples of scientifically guided social change can compare to putting a man on the moon.”
The paper relies on this without support.
People of all ages adapt to their immediate environments.
“Once we appreciate that people of all ages are adapting to their immediate environments, it becomes clear that the wrong environmental intervention will make change appear difficult or impossible, whereas the right one will make change appear effortless.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Human genetically evolved adaptations for cooperation, including cultural transmission of learned behavior, evolved in small face-to-face groups and may not work well in larger groups.
“An important point to keep in mind is that our genetically evolved adaptations for cooperation, including the cultural transmission of learned behavior, evolved in the context of small face-to-face groups and might not necessarily work well in the context of larger groups.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Men are especially likely to invest in mating effort rather than parental effort.
“Men are especially likely to invest in mating effort rather than parental effort.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Most successful interventions work for single families or small groups.
“Most successful interventions work for single families or small groups.”
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
“Indeed, the randomized control trials and other high-quality real-world experiments described in section 2 can be regarded as a refined variation-and-selection process”
§ Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change > 1. Introduction
“In section 3 we will review examples of scientifically based and validated programs that accomplish change on three scales: individuals, small groups, and large populations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wilson, D. S., Hayes, S. C., Biglan, A., & Embry, D. D.
- Affiliations
- Binghamton University (US)
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Oregon Research Institute (US)
- Venue
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2014-05-15
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 395-416
- ISSN
- 0140-525X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1825
- PMC
- PMC4331065
- OpenAlex
- W2044880034
- Cited by
- 255
- References
- 664
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 8
- FWCI
- 19.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (RC2DA028946)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD060922, HD60922)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Keywords
- intentional change, behavior change, cultural change, phenotypic plasticity, evolution, symbolic thinking, evolutionary psychology, social constructivism, behaviorism, social psychology, cognitive psychology, applied behavioral science, variation and selection
- MeSH terms
- Behavioral Sciences, Behaviorism, Cultural Evolution, Humans
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-09-28, under version 3 of the claim definition (prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-09-28 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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