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Why Hell Is Other People: Distinctively Human Psychological Suffering Export

by: Jesse M. Bering
Review of General Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1. (March 2008), pp. 1-8.

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Just as there is remarkable continuity between the structures, abilities, and behaviors of closely related species, so too are there equally remarkable differences. Because only our species has evolved the social cognitive mechanisms that enable a heightened sensitivity to the minds of others, only our species suffers the psychological consequences. Using Sartre's famous play No Exit to illuminate the interplay between evolved psychology and social conscious experience, I show how theory of mind is both biologically adaptive and the common denominator in distinctively human types of psychological suffering.


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