Also; that's how profound our self-serving bias is. The person's behavior may be suspicious but that does not in-itself ensure (with 100% causal continuity) that the individual is not trustworthy. It's quite likely that they lack the normal exposure to positive social interactions which has stunted their interpersonal development. The brain's reaction; to put distance between itself and the suspect is entirely self-preservational, and possibly to the detriment of that other person and/or the society at large. When these people with awkward behavior due to lack of interpersonal exposure and development are subsequently ignored and/or ostracized; they occasionally become anti-social monsters bent on harming as many people as possible.
We are conscious of maybe 2% of all brain activity; but in addition to the majority of brain activity being unconscious, that activity which is conscious is largely a construction of the brain and does not necessarily represent the true state of affairs. The majority of conscious phenomena are fabrications.
BTW; Axonal and Arterial shearing can happen to anyone at any age. They are the bulk of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) experienced by Military Personnel, Football Players and Boxers. Infants and the elderly are especially at risk due to having a skull vault larger than the brain (The brain shrinks with age). With Axonal Shearing; cells called Schwann cells congregate around the damaged axon and assist in a process known as Wallerian Degeneration. You may recall in February of last year, Dave Duerson, an NFL football player, suffered severe TBIs with accompanying degeneration and subsequently took his own life. He shot himself in the stomach and donated his brain to the study of sports related TBIs.
"Shaken Baby Syndrome" is a misnomer. The actual condition is called "arterial shearing" and results from a "rapid deceleration" of the brain. This can happen in a car accident, kid falling over, anything that rapidly decelerates the brain will cause it to slosh about in an over-sized skull. The cerebral hemispheres are separated by the interhemispheric fissure which is occupied by the falx cerebri - a hardened portion of the dura mater which projects into the interhemispheric fissure. When the brain rotates inside the enlarged skull the cerebral hemispheres butt up against the falx cerebri and can be distorted causing "axonal shearing" of the connective tissue that binds the two hemispheres; the corpus callosum (probably the anterior commissure as well). Axonal shearing can cause cognitive and behavioral problems that are not detectable on any brain image (e.g. CT, MRI, SPECT, etc..) Hemmorhaging in infants with "Shaken Baby Syndrome" is typically localizable to the Medial Cerebral Artery which affects the precentral gyrus containing the primary motor cortex, but can also affect the somatosensory cortex posterior of the central sulcus of Rolando in the postcentral gyrus.
Child Services must have suspected Hydrocephalus and ordered the peritoneal shunt. While reading, my provisional diagnosis was lesion of the mid-brain obstructing the lateral ventricles and Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS). According to Human Malformations And Related Anomalies By Roger E. Stevenson, Judith G. Hall, Macrocephaly may be accompanied by Hydrocephaly but it's the subarachnoid space that is enlarged. The peritoneal shunt probably would have been a permanent mistake.
?"I worry about attention span," Faust said, "because people will not listen to more than a couple of sentences or read more than a couple of sentences. Does everything have to be a sound bite? Is everything to be digested into something brief? And aren't there complicated ideas that we ought to have the patience to give our attention to?"
Faust continued, "I worry about dumbing down in terms of speed and in terms of reflection. Do we sit back and think about things hard or do we always have to go on to the next sound bite, the next stimulus?"
Hmm. I remember reading about that in one of my neuroanatomy books. But I thought they said it was caused by the close junction of the cranial nerves with the throat and sinuses. I'll have to go back and see what they thought it was.
At the same time; waiters will consciously give better service to attractive women and well-dressed men.
The underlying fact that pretty much everyone is self-absorbed and only concerned about #1 is the one consistent cause of all these problems.
The waiters' behavior is justified by the statistical data. It's like an insurance actuator determining that a 25-year old male driver is at higher risk of being in an accident than a 25-year old female driver. From their perspective it's not prejudice, it's just good business sense.
The waiters can fall-back on the same excuse insurance companies (and pretty much everyone else uses) and who can fault them for it? Economics determine morality.
Of Interest: The Social and Psychological Impact of Online Social Networking APS National Psychology Week Survey 2010 (http://www.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/Social-and-Psychological-Impact-of-Social-Networking-Sites.pdf)
Jealousy is an internal state of affairs that is provoked in different people by different environmental circumstances. Though we cannot always change external circumstances we can sometimes change the internal circumstances. Although we may find coping-strategies to deal with bouts of jealousy, we really need to find a way to not be jealous.
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/02/duerson-suicide-brain-study/
Faust continued, "I worry about dumbing down in terms of speed and in terms of reflection. Do we sit back and think about things hard or do we always have to go on to the next sound bite, the next stimulus?"
The underlying fact that pretty much everyone is self-absorbed and only concerned about #1 is the one consistent cause of all these problems.
The waiters' behavior is justified by the statistical data. It's like an insurance actuator determining that a 25-year old male driver is at higher risk of being in an accident than a 25-year old female driver. From their perspective it's not prejudice, it's just good business sense.
The waiters can fall-back on the same excuse insurance companies (and pretty much everyone else uses) and who can fault them for it? Economics determine morality.
Anyone who is interested in the gross effect of our alienation from each other should read Erich Fromm's Man For Himself.
"Jealousy; turning saints into the sea..."