The Psychological History of Human Society

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Prehuman Period

Prehistoric Period

Early Period

The Psychological History of Human Society Modern Period

Postmodern Period

State Unified and Partisan Unified Societies

The Psychological History of Human Society Contents Abstract Diagram: the psychology and social structures Diagram: ape evolution and hominid evolution Diagram: the psychological history of human society Introduction

Part 1. Psychology 1. The Social Lives 1.1. Personality: The Social-Information Personality System 1.1.1. The Social Relation Type 1.1.2. The Information Process Type 1.1.2.1. Admission: Sensitivity and Assertiveness 1.1.2.2. Resolution: Distinctiveness and Network 1.1.2.3. Action: Goal and Context 1.1.2.4. Openness: Persistence and Updating 1.1.3. The Big Five 1.2. The Social Lives 1.2.1. The Social Lives for the Primate Social Structures 1.2.2. The Human Instincts and the Social Lives 1.2.3. The Harmonious Social Life 1.2.3.1. Cooperation - The Hyper Friendly Instinct 1.2.3.2. Detection – The Detective Instinct 1.2.3.3. The Conscience Instinct

Part 2. The History of Human Society 2. The Prehuman Period 2.1. Ape Evolution 2.1.1. The Original Ape: the solitary ape 2.1.2. The First Split: the peacemaking ape 2.1.3. The Second Split: the loyal ape 2.1.4. The Third Split: the harmonious ape 2.1.5. The Fourth Split: the aggressive ape 2.2. Hominid Evolution 3. The Interaction of the Social Lives 3.1. The Properties of the Social Lives 3.2. The Enforcement of the Social Life 3.3. The Interaction of the Social Lives 4. The Prehistoric Period 4.1. The Prehistoric Harmonious Society 4.2. The Religious Prehistoric Harmonious Society 4.3. The Exit from the Harmonious Society 5. The Early Period 5.1. The Early Collective Society 5.2. The Early Individualistic Society 5.3. The Revival of the Harmonious Society 2

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5.3.1. The Reasons for the Revival 5.3.2. The Conversion to the Harmonious Social Life 5.4. The Conversion of the Non-Harmonious Social Lives 5.4.1. The Conversion to the Collective Social Life 5.4.2. The Conversion to the Individualistic Social Life 6. The Modern Period 6.1. The Modern Individualistic Society 6.1.1. The Renaissance 6.1.2. The Industrial Revolution 6.2. The Modern Collective Society 6.3. The Modern Constitutional Two-Party Society 6.4. The Christian Church 6.4.1. The Early Church as the Harmonious Society 6.4.2 The Church as the State Religion 6.4.3 The Reformation: the breakdown of the intermediary 6.4.4. The Puritan Movement: the breakdown of the collective society 6.5. The Three-Branch Unified Society of America 6.5.1. The Decline of the State Religion 6.5.2. Description 6.5.3. The Requirements for the Unified Society 6.6. The Harmonious Moral Religions

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11.2.1.1. Income Inequality 11.2.1.2 Unregulated Financial Innovation 11.2.1.3. Greed 11.2.1.4 The Chaos 11.2.2. Environmental Chaos 11.2.2.1. Unsustainable Consumerism 11.2.2.2. Unsustainable Technology 11.2.2.3. The Chaos 11.2.3. Social Chaos 11.3. The Rebalance 11.3.1. The Changes of Mentality 11.3.2. Stable Economy 11.3.2.1 The Financial Reform 11.3.2.2. The Tax Reform 11.3.2.3. The Income Reform 11.3.3 Sustainable Environment 11.3.3.1. Sustainable Living 11.3.3.2. Sustainable Technology 11.3.4. Social Cohesion 12. The Postmodern Harmonious Society as the Harmonious Society of God 12.1. The Harmonious Society of God 12.2. Human 12.3. The Interaction 12.4. The Organism Structure of the Harmonious Society of God 12.5 The Harmonist Manifesto for the Harmonious Society of God 13. The Postmodern Unified Society 13.1. Divided Society and Unified Society 13.2. The Global Natural Society 14. Summary 15. Reference Pictures: Prehuman Period Ape evolution tree Prehistoric Period A Kali'na hunter with a woman gatherer by Pierre Barrère, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kalina_hunter_gatherer.jpg Early Period Niulang and Zhinv, http://www.hnta.cn/Info/lyzx/qs/046494.shtml Modern Period T-Day by Normal Rockwell, http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/t-day Postmodern Period From clip art in Microsoft Word Email address: [email protected] Website (download all books): http://sites.google.com/site/einsnewt/ Books list: http://www.scribd.com/einsnewt

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Abstract The psychological history of human society describes the religious, political, and economic history of human society from the perspective of psychology for the Prehuman Period, the Prehistoric Period, the Early Period, the Modern Period, and the Postmodern Period. The proposed psychology is derived from the social-life structural theory, dividing the human social life into the three social lives, consisting of the yin (collective), the yang (individualistic), and the harmonious social lives, which are derived from the feminine, the masculine, and the neutral social lives, respectively. The collective social life represents collective wellbeing for the feminine task of upbringing of offspring. The individualistic social life represents individualistic achievement for the masculine task of attracting female mate. The unique human evolution produces the harmonious social life that transcends the collective and the individualistic social life, and represents harmonious cooperation. The emergence of the harmonious social life and society occurred during the Prehuman Period, including ape evolution and hominid evolution. The prehistoric hunter-gatherer society in the Prehistoric Period was the harmonious society. The harmonious social life was evolved to adapt to the small social group in the prehistoric hunter-gatherer society. In the Early Period starting from the Neolithic Revolution, the inevitable large civilized social group of the agricultural-nomad society destroyed the prehistoric harmonious small social group. As a result, the collective society and the individualistic society were formed separately as the Early Society, in which different societies clashed to form exclusive societies. In the collective society, the state has the state collective religion (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Confucianism). In the individualistic society, the state has the state individualism (Greek mythology and science). Later, the harmonious society without the state of a large social group was formed as the harmonious religions (Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism) to seek harmonious connection among people in small social groups. In the Modern Period starting from the Renaissance for the Modern Revolution, the modern mass printing and increased literacy led to communication and understanding among the three branches (collective, individualistic, harmonious) of human society, resulting in the Modern Unified Society, such as America. In the Postmodern Period starting from global mass telecommunication, the Unified Society is divided into the State Unified Society as Russia, China, and Japan where the state represents politically both the collective and the individualistic societies and the Partisan Unified Society as USA, UK, and Germany where the political parties represent separately the collective and the individualistic societies. Economically, the collective society is stable, but the long domination of the collective society turns stability into stagnation. The individualistic society is dynamic, but the long domination of the individualistic society turns dynamism into crisis. In America, the long domination of the individualistic society turned dynamism into crisis in 2008. The rebalance restores the balance between the collective society and the individualistic society, and turns financial crisis, environmental crisis, and social crisis into stable economy, sustainable environment, and social cohesion. Religiously, the harmonious religion in the Unified Society represents the harmonious society separated from the collective and the individualistic societies.

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PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES PSYCHOLOGY the brain structure–neurotransmitters for socialization and information processing PERSONALITY

admission resolution socialization (sensitivity(distinctiveness– (bonding relation– assertiveness) network) free relation)

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action (goal– context)

openness (persistence– updating)

yin (network-bonding relation-context = collective wellbeing) and yang (distinctiveness-free relation-goal = individualistic achievement) passive (sensitivity) – active (assertiveness) intragroup interaction harmony = high openness (updating) to transcend yin-yang and passive-active the social instincts SOCIAL LIFE

yin passive social life (amiable)

yin active social life (expressive)

harmonious social life

bonding + freezing instincts

nurturing + manipulative instincts

yang active social life (driver)

conscience instinct = dominative + hyper friendly instinct predatory + detective instinct instincts

yang passive social life (analytical) systemizing + addictive instinct

SOCIAL STRUCTURES the loose the tight collective collective society society

the harmonious society

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the tight individualistic society

the loose individualistic society

Ape Evolution and Social Structures orangutan-like ancestor (loose society)

Family Hominidae

13 million years ago (Ma)

orangutan (loose society) bonobo-like ancestor (matriarch collective society) Subfamily Homininae 7Ma

gorilla (patriarch collective society)

Tribe Hominin 6Ma

human (harmonious society)

Genus Pan

2Ma

chimpanzee (patriarch individualistic society)

bonobo (matriarch collective society)

Hominid Evolution: The Evolution of the Conscience Instinct walking hands (bonobo-like common ancestor) bipedalism

free hands for gestural language as hyper friendliness (non-Homo hominids 6-1 Ma) manipulative hands for tool (Homo habilis 2.2-1.6 Ma) speech for theory of mind (Homo erectus 1.9-0.1 Ma)

hyper friendliness

theory of mind (detective instinct) conscience instinct extra prefrontal cortex

enhanced conscience instinct (Homo sapiens