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Authority figure

Authority figure a real or projected person in a position of power; one's parents, police, and boss are authority figures to some people; during the transference phase of psychoanalysis, the psychoanalyst becomes an authority figure.


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... to believe things that are counter to evidence because an authority figure said so. Which are quite different thing. Or is it just to be on the right(still alive) ...

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by canalon
Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:20 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Blind faith
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Blind faith

... thing is that believing things that are counter to evidence because an authority figure said so does not strike me as a massive evolutionary advantage. Unless you are said ...

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by canalon
Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:09 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Blind faith
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Re: Blind faith

... to believe things that are counter to evidence because an authority figure said so. That is the trait that I believe the origenal question was about. The selective ...

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by BDDVM
Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:58 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Blind faith
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Blind faith

... human things, having the participants willing to blindly trust an authority figure could be a good group survival feature. Religions, ironically enough, may get their ...

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by Darby
Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:02 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Blind faith
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Re: What's in a name?

... which is of course completely false. - dependent (supposedly) on an authority figure (Darwin) and a central book (On the Origins of Species). Sometimes it seems that the ...

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by Darby
Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:11 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: What's in a name?
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