I argue that deeply ingrained dispositions to do evil not render moral perfection impossible. discuss various accounts of and the evidence from cognitive (neuro)science points towards a strong disposition for evil. Afterwards, three strategies can allow humans overcome their dispositions. These are: enhancement, avoiding triggering situations structural solutions.

I consider how complex logical operations might self-assemble in a signalling-game context via composition of simpler underlying dispositions. On the one hand, agents may take advantage pre-evolved dispositions; on other they co-evolve dispositions as simultaneously learn to combine them display more behaviour. In either case, evolution can be efficient than evolving such capacities from scratc...

Flow theory offers an individualistic explanation of media enjoyment, while cooperative learning theory posits a social explanation for enhanced learning in groups. This classroom-based experimental study examines whether game players can experience both conditions and the influence of each on several types of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. We find that high quality cooperative lear...

Although theorists have proposed the existence of multiple distinct varieties of positive emotion, dispositional positive affect is typically treated as a unidimensional variable in personality research. We present data elaborating conceptual and empirical differences among seven positive emotion dispositions in their relationships with two core personality constructs, the ‘‘Big Five’’ and adul...