A lot of Soviet citizens, similarly, (retrospectively) claimed they were
happiest during World War II, when something like 1-out-of-8 perished!
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com
Bryan Caplan wrote:
A lot of Soviet citizens, similarly, (retrospectively) claimed they were
happiest during World War II, when something like 1-out-of-8 perished!
Selection bias!
Alex
--
Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
Vice President and Director of Research
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way
An article in the LA Times discusses how high levels of stress
change hormonal balances in the body causing, ahem, sexual arousal
during times of stress.
I can easily imagine a similar effect for just plain happiness.
Fabio
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Robin Hanson wrote:
The Washington Post had
I think I recall also reading somewhere that suicide rates dropped markedly
during both the Great Depression and WW II.
John
At 11:43 AM 10/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
A lot of Soviet citizens, similarly, (retrospectively) claimed they were
happiest during World War II, when something like
Fabio Rojas wrote:
An article in the LA Times discusses how high levels of stress
change hormonal balances in the body causing, ahem, sexual arousal
during times of stress.
William Dickens wrote:
Well that (if the LA Times got it right) is a very odd fact. Why would we
be programmed to make
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With regard to Mr. Dickens' comment regarding whether stress should cause
sexual arousal, I am tempted to think that evolutionary psychology can
certainly explain this phenomenon. Early societies, according to most models
of human development, used the males as hunters and warriors;
