Nature or Nurture; How Do Genes, Environment and Free Will Affect Human Behavior?

[ralvaradoanchisi]

If you need someone to put subtitles in Spanish for this talk, I'd be more than happy to do it.

[BandWagon1987]

This is an interesting piece, but the level of flippancy this man displays when discussing psychologically traumatised research animals is quite disturbing. I can only assume that a lifetime of such studies dulls the conscience regarding research animals, but it would be a little more mature and comfortable if he refrained from commenting flippantly on "wacko" (ie. traumatised) monkeys in the future.

[SharmaDon890]

it dont make any thesis!!! I need thesis about nature vs nurture!!

[efortune357]

Another great doc that just came out dealing with Nature and Nurture is the Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Film. Very Informative.

[marcus10]

I have to notice that IF humans are capable to determine (at least in basic areas for now) the basic relations between nature and nurture in their own behaviour - doesnt that mean that there is a existance of free will?

[ali4boxer4]

is this about psychology

[bxvnyhkhk]

THIS HELPED ME A LOT ON MY LA PERSUASIVE PROJECT THANK YOU. THIS WAS VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE I AM A 13 YEAR OLD AND I GET IT.

[SociallyRetardedChic]

@bxvnyhkhk nvr say ur age on the internet.

[bxvnyhkhk]

@SociallyRetardedChic

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[SociallyRetardedChic]

@bxvnyhkhk sarcasm?

[bxvnyhkhk]

@SociallyRetardedChic no i actualy mean it its rllyyy hard to convey tone on this thigg

[russellgillman]

Great presentation. Very clear, informative and interesting.

[B7ACKNEONder]

It has always seemed fairly simple to me, some people forget that the actions of people are part of natural selection, and there is no evidence of this concept of freewill as we are never in exactly the same situation twice. In science, we like to replicate experiments in similar situations, but we can't do that with 100% accuracy, the universe/time moves on. Some Chinese bloke many centuries ago said "We never step in the same stream twice.". Eat polar bears = supermarkets breed polar bears,.

[joeguy02]

A woman who does not breast feed her child is more often than not going to be less intelligent than a woman who does breast feed her child. Breast milk is essential for growth in infants and a mother that decides to not feed her child breast milk is less intelligent.

[fibbsabaddy]

It is so obvious we need to update our social structures to manipulate the environment to not have such ill effects. Check out the venus project

[MissCarol27]

Very interesting, thank you so much, this has helped me with my pshychology home work on nature vs nurture developmental psychology on a case study!!! Thanks a million!!!!

[pushitawayx]

watched this video to take some notes and do some learning for a debate/paper for a course im taking it and it was very helpful, very interesting and a pleasure to watch. thanks for posting

[bagiee1]

Can someone sum up what his final conclusions are??

I've watched half hour, but im bored to see it all...

Which one of the 3 he addresses, he believes causes the way for our behavior???

[neohashi]

He leaves the conclusion to the audience.

Though I think he makes a strong case for the Nature via Nurture (not versus) point of view.. The idea is you are prepositioned for certain behaviors by your genes _but_ you need the environment to trigger them.

[bagiee1]

ok..Thanx...i agree with this...

There are genes, with some general "trends', but for me the  environment plays the most basic and catalytic role, on how one's behavior will unfold...

[addiktion13]

@neohashi Yeah definitely. Which means that your genes are really just blueprints that aren't active unless stimulus from the environment is presented. Of course you can't live without either of them, but that means your environment probably has the greatest impact on you will become because your genes will lie somewhat dormant unless activated by the environment. Obviously some genes take shape right away like eye color, hair color, etc.

[fibbsabaddy]

@bagiee1 Nature via nurture. Not vs. Your genes are a blueprint but there has to be a trigger in the environment in order for that to manifest as a behavior. I was a bit confused as to what he was pointing to regarding free will. I guess everyone has one but it is darn hard to use if you have grown up with a bad environment and bad Genes. Check out the venus project re solutions.

[bagiee1]

@fibbsabaddy ...yes..thnx..its ok... i agree.... im also a Venus Project supporter for time now, thats why i was interested to see what this guy here says....take care... ;)

[fibbsabaddy]

@bagiee1 Excellent. Also check out Danile Pink, Robert Sopolsky, BF Skinner and Jeremy Rifkin on human behaviour.

[hollisterchickAM]

Very informative, and helpful. Thank you!

[candygir7]

it is not all truth and they only hypothesizing. but yes a lot of helpful information.

[craz4wild]

Awsome Presentation. very helpful thank you.

[437thx1138]

Excellent vid. Also see:

Steven Pinker Blank Slate. He's on Cspan2 & youtube. Very interesting Nature or Nurture ideas.

Looks like the lovable mad scientist :) Very interesting!

[w1nn3r4l1f3]

...society.

[w1nn3r4l1f3]

all behaviour is nurtured*, there cannot be freewill as you have been taught that behaviour, if its nature then freewill cannot be applied also, its only by understanding as a cognative person does freewill enter the equation for nurture (wether it is seen by the individual as right or wrong), nature is predetermined so can only be altered by nurture, so then by definition all can be nurtured by education to think and act as to how they are expected to be within the parameters of culture and...

[w1nn3r4l1f3]

*from the point of the first cognative pattern of thought, prior to that it is nature, for survival is its primary function.

[pmsplok11]

Outstanding talk.