What makes us human why do people think feel and act as they do what is the essence of human nature what is the basic relationship between the individual and society these questions have fascinated people for centuries now at last there is a solid basis for answering them in the form of the accumulated efforts and studies by thousands of psychology researchers. The cultural animal human nature meaning and social life baumeister roy f isbn 9780195167030 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The cultural animal maintains that natural selection shaped the human psyche in two stages the first for the sake of being social and the second for the sake of being cultural being cultural is a step beyond being social to be social is to have interactions and relationships but to be cultural is to belong to a community of similar minds that collectively maintains transmits and accumulates information in its network moreover baumeister argues that we need to briefly set aside the . Social curiosity is defined as the eagerness for information about the social world and it represents a core part of human social life baumeister 2005 renner 2006 observational studies