Comments on: Peace Among Primates (Part 3) http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/20/peace-among-primates-part-3/ Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health news Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Alvaro http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/20/peace-among-primates-part-3/#comment-153210 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:57:54 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/20/peace-among-primates-part-3/#comment-153210 Susan, thanks for sharing those very relevant impressions. Perhaps you are right, and that cultural trait helps screen out bad candidates. Perhaps it is something that evolved for a reason, but it has outlived its usefulness. I guess the bottom line question is, does such an attitude make the dispatch center more or less effective? Dr. Sapolksky's main point is that we don't need to accept any specific behavioral trait as genetic, fixed, but consideer whether we -and the groups we belong to- would benefit from displaying different behavior sets, and put them to practice. What would happen if you volunteer to become a trainer just one time? Susan, thanks for sharing those very relevant impressions.

Perhaps you are right, and that cultural trait helps screen out bad candidates. Perhaps it is something that evolved for a reason, but it has outlived its usefulness.

I guess the bottom line question is, does such an attitude make the dispatch center more or less effective? Dr. Sapolksky's main point is that we don't need to accept any specific behavioral trait as genetic, fixed, but consideer whether we -and the groups we belong to- would benefit from displaying different behavior sets, and put them to practice.

What would happen if you volunteer to become a trainer just one time?

]]> by: Susan http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/20/peace-among-primates-part-3/#comment-153165 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:23:42 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/20/peace-among-primates-part-3/#comment-153165 I work in a 911/police dispatch center and I feel the anti-socialism in myself and see it in most of my coworkers as well. Very few of us volunteer to have the new people sit with us. Fewer still volunteer to become trainers. Yet if I am forced to have someone sit w/me after the initial wish to growl, I explain it is nothing personal and usually enjoy the encounter. I have been in this profession for 20 years. I was treated w/hostility when I first came to visit (though I could have cared less,and find that unless you can handle the attitude on coming in you usually can not handle the job. Hmmmm I work in a 911/police dispatch center and I feel the anti-socialism in myself and see it in most of my coworkers as well. Very few of us volunteer to have the new people sit with us. Fewer still volunteer to become trainers. Yet if I am forced to have someone sit w/me after the initial wish to growl, I explain it is nothing personal and usually enjoy the encounter. I have been in this profession for 20 years. I was treated w/hostility when I first came to visit (though I could have cared less,and find that unless you can handle the attitude on coming in you usually can not handle the job. Hmmmm

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