Our Lives Matter S1E27: The Web of Human Behavior

Our Lives Matter

May 30 2024 | 00:45:01

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Show Notes

Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles. What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two? The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior. It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival and reproduction and our abilities of memory, imagination, and communication. Those create nine patterns of behavior that are also universal traits. How we each use those nine patterns of behavior as individuals is affected by six variable factors. This gives us a…

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