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Originally Posted by jexa
I think they're saying that in the past paying attention to the unpleasant was adaptive.. it prepared the fight or flight response and protected us. Now it's not adaptive but it doesn't effect us evolutionarily (negative thinkers still survive and produce offspring).
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I'm not sure being of a more pessimistic nature is not "still" adaptive. Living organisms typically have a range of characters, and depending on the circumstances some of them will be more adaptive than others, but the most adaptive may change when the environment changes.
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Last edited by pachyderm; Mar 12, 2010 at 06:37 AM.
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