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Video Links:

Escape Velocity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL8tXDat40c

Chimeras of Meaning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApjWkvqjleE

Article Links

Spandrels and Exadaptation

http://www.pnas.org/content/94/20/10750.full

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/webdocs/spandrels.html

Terror Management Theory

http://books.google.de/books?id=j_KMRe9wK2MC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Jeff+Greenberg%22+++%22terror+management+theory%22&source=web&ots=1uVw4s5k19&sig=G4pxCVLPm3Qg4ZXjGjZDSfw-_o0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Jeff%20Greenberg%22%20%20%20%22terror%20management%20theory%22&f=false

http://www.randallwatters.com/becker.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15122930

Stress and Glucocorticoids

http://www.youramazingbrain.org/brainchanges/stressbrain.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucocorticoid

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mental_Health_Letter/2011/March/understanding-the-stress-response

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol

Women and Religiosity

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201009/why-are-women-more-religious-men-ii

Error Management Theory

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Group/BussLAB/pdffiles/Error_Management_Theory_2000.pdf

False Positives and False Negatives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives

Empathising/Systematising Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing%E2%80%93systemizing_theory

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19338503