{"id":433,"date":"2013-06-17T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2013-06-18T04:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T04:40:14","slug":"acquire-and-defend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Acquire and Defend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Squirrels and rabbits below my treehouse fill a stash and then guard it. Sparrows chase hawks lurking near their nest. Observng my own bio-psychology, I feel different emotions attached to \u201cgathering\u201d and \u201cprotecting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gathering gives a rush of pleasure. Senses are heightened, the \u201clooking for and finding\u201d sends a little endorphin pulse. Future behavior wants to replicate that little stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting follows a pulse of fear. Potential loss flairs as a form of anger, behavior aggressive. Successful protecting \u00a0may not reenforce this behavior, the fear impulse seems more primal. It takes a while to get over loss of love, wealth, or right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Science indicates we value something we are trying to protect twice as much as we value the same thing if we are trying to gather it. \u00a0See Daniel Kahneman\u2019s \u201cThinking, Fast and Slow.\u201d\u00a0Psychologists talk of \u201csystems\u201d of behavior.<\/p>\n<p>These systems may originate in various regions of the brain, but are not like the pipes of a power plant.\u00a0They are organizations of input and response, similar to what we used to consider \u201cinstinct,\u201d though that implied not being changeable.<\/p>\n<p>Though these systems seem to be inherited, so is our ability for language, and our ability to use words and images to trigger fear or pleasure nearly as real as the actual loss or\u00a0gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squirrels and rabbits below my treehouse fill a stash and then guard it. Sparrows chase hawks lurking near their nest. Observng my own bio-psychology, I feel different emotions attached to \u201cgathering\u201d and \u201cprotecting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gathering gives a rush of pleasure. Senses are heightened, the \u201clooking for and finding\u201d sends a little endorphin pulse. Future behavior wants to replicate that little stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Protecting follows a pulse of fear. Potential loss flairs as a form of anger, behavior aggressive. Successful protecting \u00a0may not reenforce this behavior, the fear impulse seems more primal. It takes a while to get over loss of love, wealth,  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=433\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[114,111,109,113,41,110,107,112],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window","category-outer-limits","tag-biology","tag-economics","tag-fear","tag-instinct","tag-kahneman","tag-pleasure","tag-psychology","tag-values"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-6Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}