Modernity and the western value-action paradox: contributions from conservation psychology

The Paradox of Modernity

Jung in context. Modernity and the making of a psychology

analysis), or by internal signposting. At times its prose is hard to pin down. Thus p. 34: Throughout Freud's writings we find that sexuality evokes a certain sluggishness in the mental apparatus, an absence of thought. (Though we should also be clear that this mysterious recalcitrance was also the occasion for the greatest intellectual efforts of which the psyche was capable; the problems pose...

Social Psychology and the Paradox of Revolution

According to the gunman theory, many revolutions do not take place, in spite of the fact that the majority stands to gain if they can put an end to the oppression exercised over it, since a gunman can see to it that egoistic individuals have no incentive to take part in revolution. Champions of the idea that there is a paradox of revolution go further: Even if individuals care about the common ...

The g-value paradox.

The February 15th, 2001 announcement of the draft human genome sequence was the culmination of a momentous undertaking. The analyses of this sequence (International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium 2001; Venter et al. 2001) predicted a surprisingly modest 31,000 genes for Homo sapiens (although this number has yet to be finalized), as compared with estimates as high as 140,000 genes just a fe...

Conservation and human behaviour: lessons from social psychology

Despite increased effort from non-governmental organisations, academics and governments over recent decades, several threats continue to cause species declines and even extinctions. Resource use by a growing human population is a significant driver of biodiversity loss, so conservation scientists need to be interested in the factors that motivate human behaviour. Economic models have been appli...