The Answer to Our Problems
You all know that I am extremely skeptical about “science” in the area of commitment and fidelity because I believe that it is a social construct. Nevertheless, people continue to come up with ridiculous theories on why people cheat.
I’m a firm believer that if you are going to study why people don’t cheat, you should exam people that don’t cheat. This study got it only 1/2 right.
An Oklahoma State University research has been given $349,175 to study the pair bonds of the prairie vole – one of the few monogamous mammals. According to the article
[Dr. Alex] Ophir plans a series of studies to examine how hormones in the brain regulate social affiliation, parental care, territorial behavior, and memory.
“For instance, we will specifically investigate the control of a particular hormone, vasopressin, in brain areas known to influence pairbonding, and ask how the brain functions to maintain monogamous bonds, and promote child care from fathers. We will also ask what influence paternal care has on offspring brain and behavior development,” said Ophir.
Maybe it’s me, but I don’t think that a rodent can help explain why humans cheat. Rodents don’t have Internet websites that cater to cheating (nor do they have Facebook). Rodents don’t have mores (to my knowledge) that influence the decision to cheat or not.
I’m not the biggest fan of quoting comments of people on the Internet, but I think I’ll make an exception here. Here’s the sole comment in response to the article.
Excuse me, but a vole isn’t a human and to fund such research instead of funding research that involves human health and development, while claiming that is what you are trying to fund seems that someone had to dump a bunch of money and had no better ideas.
We have millions of people that are suffering from disorders that need funding and they are looking into voles and “pair bonding.” How about we take that money and fund why Johnny is not learning like the rest of his class or the reasons why people spend their hard earned money on idiotic studies instead of helping those that need help very badly
Source: NewsOn6
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