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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

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by Randolph M. Nesse


  feedback and, 260–61

  genetic factors in, 133–34, 246, 247

  mood regulation and, 130–33

  rates of, 245–46

  spectrum of, 253–54

  bistable systems, 131–32

  Blake, William, 112

  blame, 181

  Blanchard, Ray, 206–7

  Bonanno, George, 179

  Bonaparte, Marie, 213–14

  borderline personality disorder, 123

  Bowlby, John, 89–90

  Boyd, Robert, 170

  brain

  abnormalities, 119–20

  addictive substances and, 236–37

  circuits, 25–26

  as computer, 260

  depression and, 130

  gene transmission and, 268

  infections and, 254

  mechanic’s model of, 249–50

  OCD and, 195

  panic attacks and, 77

  sexuality and, 206–7

  size of, 62, 189

  triune, 52

  weight control and, 221

  Brakel, Linda A. W., 191

  Breslau, Naomi, 80

  Briand, Aristide, 213

  Brinkman, Baba, 29

  British East India Company, 240

  Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry, The (Andreasen), 22–23

  Brown, George, 92, 148

  Bruch, Hilde, 226

  Brüne, Martin, 267

  Buddha and Buddhism, 15–16, 117, 124, 268

  bulimia, 224–27, 228

  Burns, George, 207–8

  Buss, David, 50

  C

  caffeine, 237

  Cannon, Walter, 73, 77

  Cantor, Chris, 80

  Caraco, Thomas, 99

  carfentanil, 241

  caring, 177–78

  Carr, Deborah, 179

  Car Talk (radio program), 250

  Carver, Charles, 107

  case studies, 145

  castration anxiety, 92

  caudate nucleus, 195

  cautiousness, 256

  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 183

  Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) project, 179–80

  Charnov, Eric, 96–97

  cheating, 167, 177

  checklists, 21–22, 148–49

  chemical imbalance, 136

  China, 240

  cliff-edged fitness functions, 257–59

  climaxes, sexual, 210–14

  clinical evaluations, 20, 21, 22–23

  clinician’s illustion, 47

  closed groups, 171

  cocaine, 237, 240

  coca leaves, 240

  cognition, unconscious, 192–93

  cognitive therapy, 136–37

  commitment, 170–72

  communal relationships, 171–72

  communes, 50

  comorbidity, 23

  competition

  in altruism, 174

  between hosts and pathogens, 258

  in pastimes, 175–76

  resources for, 39–40

  responses to, 91

  status, 104

  complexity, 26–27, 58, 134–35, 247, 249

  Concept of Anxiety, The (Kierkegaard), 67

  Concorde Effect, 108

  confirmation bias, 260

  consciousness, 193–94

  conservation state, 99

  conservation-withdrawal, 90

  conspicuous consumption, 175

  cooperation, 163–64, 166–69, 174, 184

  Corbett, Stephen, 253

  cortex, 52

  corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), 77

  Cosmides, Leda, 171

  Coyne, James, 90

  crack cocaine, 240

  creativity, 252

  Crespi, Bernard, 231, 251, 255

  criminalization, 243

  Cross, John, 135

  cues, 79–80, 181–82, 209, 241

  cultural group selection, 170

  culture, 57–58

  Curtis, George, 69

  cybernetics, 129–30

  Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Wiener), 129, 245, 260

  cyclothymia, 131

  cynicism, 162, 193

  cystic fibrosis, 247

  D

  Darwin, Charles, 51, 84

  Darwinian fitness

  maximizing, 32, 95–96, 110, 183, 191, 209

  models of, 255–57

  term, 10

  Darwinian Psychiatry (McGuire and Troisi), 267

  “Darwin’s Anti-Darwinism in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” (Fridlund), 52

  Dawkins, Richard, 161

  “Dawn of Darwinian Medicine, The” (Williams and Nesse), 14

  deCatanzaro, Denys, 90–91

  deceit, 183, 184, 193

  deceiving down, 91–92

  decision making, 95–98, 151–52, 196

  defection, 167–68

  defense mechanisms, 188

  defensive responses, 35, 40–41, 69, 80

  delayed grief, 179

  depression

  bipolar, 114, 130–33

  causes of, 134

  chronic, 112, 135

  distorting reality, 109

  endogenous and exogenous, 121

  GAD and, 81

  genetic factors in, 127–29

  grief and, 180

  hope as root of, 107

  immune responses and, 103

  infection and, 102–3

  kindling future episodes, 130

  memories of, 125

  postpartum, 90

  prediction of, 141

  psychotic, 112–13

  rates of, 85–86, 125–26, 141

  rumination and, 93–94

  social navigation and, 94

  symptoms of, 110

  unproductive, 94

  depressive realism, 109

  Desideri, Ippolito, 117

  desires, 124, 194, 207–9, 242

  Devil’s Dictionary, The (Bierce), 205

  diagnosis

  categories in, 25

  checklists in, 17–18, 21–22

  comorbidity and, 23

  inconsistency in, 9, 20–21

  medical model of, 26–28

  questions asked in, 3–5

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

  debate over, 8, 17

  DSM-III, 21–24

  DSM-III-R, 24

  DSM-IV, 24, 47, 86

  DSM IV-TR, 24

  DSM-5, 24, 47, 86

  diagonal psychology, 65

  diametric disorders, 255

  diathesis (vulnerability), 158

  Dill, Lawrence, 78

  “Disappointment” (Hoagland), 108

  disease(s)

  as adaptations, 14, 41, 119–21, 228, 263

  chronic, 35–36

  control systems and, 220

  defensive responses to, 40–41

  infection and, 36–38

  mismatch and, 35–36, 41

  reproduction and, 39–40

  symptoms as, 27, 47–48, 118

  trade-offs and, 38–39

  vulnerability to, 31–41, 41–42

  disorders. See mental disorders

  dissonance, 196

  distillation, 239

  Don Quixote (Cervantes), 183

  dopamine, 98, 236–37

  drugs

  from plants, 237–39

 
sexual arousal and, 209–10

  synthetic, 240–41

  as treatments, 83, 98, 114, 156

  DSM. See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

  DSM: Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life (Frances), 8

  Dunbar, Robin, 62, 189

  dysfunction, 26

  dysregulated control systems, 27

  dysthymia (chronic low mood), 122

  E

  eating disorders

  anorexia, 224–27, 228

  bulimia, 224–27, 228

  evolutionary psychology and, 227–28

  genetic factors in, 226–27

  modern society and, 228–29

  positive feedback and, 219

  sugar addiction, 219–24

  vulnerability to, 226–27

  Ecclesiastes 3:4, 45

  economics, 161

  ego defenses, 190

  Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenäus, 57

  Einstein, Albert, 3, 262

  Ekman, Paul, 54

  Ellet, Charles, Jr., 262

  emotional disorders, 64–66

  emotional learning, 61

  emotion(s). See also negative emotions; positive emotions

  brain and, 52

  culture and, 57–58

  in decision making, 151–52

  definitions of, 53–54

  evolutionary view of, 54

  in exchange relationships, 168

  in facial expressions, 57–58

  functions of, 52–53

  goals and, 59–60

  meaning of, 65

  natural selection and, 57–58

  phylogeny of, 55

  regulating, 62–64

  reproduction and, 48–49

  situations and, 58, 155

  study of, 45–46, 49, 50–53

  subjective feeling and, 56

  translation of word, 57

  universal, 58

  usefulness of, 48, 55

  Engel, George, 8, 90, 267

  entrapment, 92

  environments. See also modern environments

  mismatch with, 35–36, 237

  natural selection and, 230–31

  Epicureanism, 233

  Epicurus, 15

  error management theory, 209

  evil, 15–16

  evolution. See also natural selection

  bacteria and, 37

  fundamentals of, 31–34

  evolutionary biology, xi–xii, 10–15, 162, 262–63

  evolutionary medicine, 14–15, 31

  evolutionary psychiatry, 264–67

  Evolutionary Psychiatry (Brüne), 267

  evolutionary psychology, 227–28

  Evolution of Cooperation, The (Axelrod), 167–68

  exchange relationships, 168–69, 172

  exercise, 127

  explanations, 144–45

  exposure therapy, 69–71

  Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), 51

  externalizing, 197

  extroversion, 80

  eye, design flaws of, 38

  F

  facial expressions, 57–58

  failure, 133, 150, 257–58

  failure to yield, 91

  false alarms, 73–74

  “fast versus slow life” theory, 184

  fathers, 249, 251–52

  fear(s), 72–73, 75–76. See also phobias

  feedback, 129, 260–61. See also positive feedback

  feeling, 56, 58

  Feierman, Jay, 254

  female sexual dysfunction, 212

  fermentation, 239

  fertility, 214–15

  Festa di Scienza e Filosofia, 31

  fetishes, 208

  Fields, W. C., 84

  fight-or-flight response, 73, 267

  Fisher, Helen, 215

  Fisher, Ronald, 165

  fitness. See Darwinian fitness

  fitness costs, 252

  fitness landscape, 255–59

  “fleeing famine” theory, 228

  flight, 77

  food, 36

  Frances, Allen, 8, 23–24

  Frank, Robert, 161

  Fredrickson, Barbara, 104

  free association, 190

  free love, 50

  freezing, 73

  Freud, Sigmund, 180, 185, 196, 213, 240

  Fridlund, Alan, 52

  Fried, Eiko, 110–11

  fundamental attribution error, 47, 118

  Further Along the Road Less Travelled (Peck), 201

  G

  GAD. See generalized anxiety disorder

  game theory, 170

  gangs, 171

  Gardner, Russell, 91

  Gazzaniga, Michael, 192

  Gefühl, 57

  Gelernter, Joel, 253

  gender, anxiety and, 82

  generalizations, 144

  generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), 81

  Genesis 9, 234

  Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, The (Fisher), 165

  genetic factors

  in autism, 47, 246, 251–52

  in bipolar disorder, 133–34, 246, 247

  in depression, 127–29

  in eating disorders, 226–27

  in mental disorders, 9, 247–50

  in schizophrenia, 246, 247

  in substance abuse, 243

  genetic research, 247–50

  genomic imprinting, 230

  geographical proximity, 169

  Ghiselin, Michael, 193

  Gibbard, Allan, 60

  Gilbert, Paul, 91, 137, 267

  giving up, 84–111

  Gluckman, Peter, 230

  goals

  behavior in pursuit of, 94–95

  emotions and, 59–60

  low mood and, 106–7

  Marginal Value Theorem and, 100–101

  prioritizing, 149–51

  status and, 93

  unreachable, 102, 136

  Gopnik, Alison, 116–17

  gossip, 170

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 31

  Greden, John, 13

  grief, 88, 179–81

  groups, 161, 171, 198

  group selection, 34, 164–66

  Gut, Emmy, 94

  Guyer, Melvin, 135

  H

  Hagen, Edward, 90, 239

  Haig, David, 251

  Haldane, J. B. S., 33

  hallucinogens, 237

  Hamburg, David, 90

  Hamilton, William, 32–33, 166

  Hammerstein, Peter, 174

  happiness, 88

  harmful dysfunction, 26

  Harris, Tirril, 92, 148

  Harrison Act of 1914, 240

  Hart, Benjamin, 103

  Hartmann, Heinz, 185

  Hartung, John, 91–92

  Haselton, Martie, 209

  Hatcher, Robert, 190

  Heckhausen, Jutta, 107

  hedonism, 233

  helping, 167

  heritability, 248

  heroin, 240

  hierarchy, 93

  high mood, 88, 95, 103–4, 122–23

  Hill, Kim, 125

  Hinde, Robert, 89

  Hoagland, Tony, 108

  Hobbes, Thomas, 175

  Holmes, Thomas, 148

  homeostatic control systems, 220

  homosexuality, 21, 206–7

  hope, 107

  Horwitz, Allan, 47

  House
, James, 179

  “How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis” (Gopnik), 116–17

  Hrdy, Sarah, 174, 176

  human genome, 247

  human nature, 162

  Hume, David, 15, 116–17

  humiliation, 92

  hunter-gatherer society, 78, 205, 207

  Huntington’s chorea, 247

  hypomania (chronic high mood), 122–23

  hypophobia (insufficient anxiety), 64, 72–73, 82

  hypothalamus, 77

  I

  identical twins, 246

  idiographic explanations, 144–47, 150–51

  “If Depression Were Cancer” (article), 113

  immune responses, 103, 195, 258

  imprinting, 251

  individual, 141–59. See also person

  infection, 36–38, 102–3, 238, 254

  inflammation, 38, 103

  information processing, 259–61

  Insel, Thomas, 9–10, 24

  Institute for Social Research, 141, 178–79

  insulin, 229

  interdiction, 243

  interferon, 103

  internalizing, 197

  involuntary yielding, 91, 92

  “Is Depression an Adaptation?” (Nesse), 102

  Izard, Carroll, 54, 57

  J

  Jackson, Eric, 106

  James, William, 51, 132

  jealousy, 49–50, 217

  Johnson, Virginia, 211

  Journal of the American Medical Association, The, 212

  K

  Keller, Matthew, 110, 251

  Kendler, Kenneth, 134, 248

  Kennair, Leif, 94, 267

  Kenrick, Douglas, 205

  Kessler, Ronald, 23

  Khan, Genghis, 216

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 67

  kindling, 130

  kin selection, 33, 34, 165, 166, 169

  Kinsey, Alfred, 201

  Klinger, Eric, 106–7, 153

  L

  Landis, Carney, 213

  learned helplessness, 101–2

  learning, substance abuse and, 236–37, 241

  LeDoux, Joseph, 52

  legalization (of drugs), 243

  lemmings, 33–34

  Lewin, Kurt, 115

  Lewis, Aubrey, 90, 121

  Life Events and Difficulties Scale, 148

  life events and situations

  depression and, 92, 115, 121

  describing, 117–18, 120–21

  diagnosis and, 47

  research into, 148

  severe, 92

  symptoms associated with, 158–59

  life stress, 147–49

  Lima, Steven, 78

  limbic system, 52

  Lloyd, Elisabeth, 210, 213

  locus coeruleus, 77

  Lorenz, Konrad, 89

  losses, 179–81

  love, 180, 205–6

  Low, Bobbi, 11

  low mood

  characteristics of, 88

  chronic, 122

  evolutionary functions of, 89–94

  as mild depression, 88

  normal, 86–87

  as psychic pain, 135

 

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