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Title |
Title of document |
Dispassionate Heuristic Rationality Fails to Sustain Social Relationships - Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Alan Fiske; UCLA; United States |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Neuroscience; Linguistics |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
language; neuroscience; dementia; communication |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
R5-920; Medicine (General); RC321-571; Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry; RC569.7-571 Mental retardation. Developmental disabilities; P1-1091; Philology. Linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter proposes three interconnected theses. The first is that the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia is the result of loss of social motives and moral emotions, while other non-social motives and emotions and most other components of cognition remain intact. The second thesis is that the heuristics and biases of human reasoning make it impossible to sustain meaningful social relationships in the absence of social motives and moral emotions. Social motives and moral emotions are adaptations that evolved because they enable people to sustain important relationships. Studies of the conversations of FTD patients, together with participant observation, demonstrate what happens when social motives and moral emotions fade away. The analyses of the neurobiology of these patients reveals that intrinsically motivated relationships cease to function when the right orbitofrontal cortex and right temporal pole degenerate. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Jun-2010 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/22118 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.22118 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Language, Interaction and Frontotemporal Dementia |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
global |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |