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1. Banging body but Chyna face look faker than Lil Wayne’s blood gang initiation

2. Evolutionary psychologists like to
   say that our modern skulls house a
   Stone Age mind.We employ concepts
   from Darwinism to modern
   evolutionary biology to explain
   how human behaviours get derailed
   by media, technology and dense
   populations. However, my favourite
   concept from animal research – Nobel
   Laureate Niko Tinbergen’s supernormal
   stimulus – hasn’t received much
   attention in psychology. This concept
   has enormous potential to explain
   current human woes.
   Tinbergen coined the term when he
   was making dummy objects to test
   triggers of animal instincts. He found
   that songbirds would abandon their
   pale blue eggs dappled with grey to
   hop on black polka-dot Day-Glo blue
   dummies so large that they constantly
   slid off and had to climb back on. Once
   a chick hatched, parents preferred
   feeding a fake baby bird beak on a
   stick if the dummy beak was wider
   and redder than the real chick’s.
   Hatchlings begged a fake beak for
   food if it had more dramatic markings
   than their parents’.
   Supernormal stimuli could be
   produced for all major areas of animal
   behaviour. Instincts weren’t coded for
   a complex shape of what to nurture or
   mate with or attack. Animals
   responded to just a few simple
   characteristics that could easily be
   exaggerated. Territorial male
   stickleback fish ignored a real male to
   fight a dummy with an underside
   brighter red than that of any natural
   fish. Male butterflies ignored a
   receptive female to straddle small
   cardboard cylinders if their vibrations
   and stripes were more intense – the
   cylinders didn’t even need wings.
   These animal behaviours look funny
   to us… or sad. But just how different
   are they from our modern habits?
   People sit alone in front of a plastic
   box streaming Friends instead of
   going out with their real buddies.
   They tend Farmville crops while
   shirking their real duties. Men have
   sex with two-dimensional screen
   images when a willing partner maybe
   in the next room. Research finds the
   cutest babies – those with the largest
   eyes and smallest noses – get the most
   attention, but Hello Kitty beats any
   baby’s proportions.
   Fast-food chains serve up meals
   concentrating sugar, salt and fat
   because these were scarce nutrients
   in the Paleolithic era that formed our
   tastes. We don’t crave green leafy
   fibre equally – it was everywhere. Our
   instincts about exercise basically tell
   us, “Rest when you don’t need to be
   exerting yourself.” Any instincts
   towards more exciting aspects of
   exercise are now supernormally met
   by spectator sports. Stimuli for
   threats don’t need to be pleasant, they
   just need to get our attention.
   Whether it’s media reports about
   terrorists or a film trailer with a
   12-metre lizard heading our way, we
   want to learn more.
   Supernormal stimuli are a driving
   force in many of today’s problems,
   including obesity, addiction to
   television and video games, and war.
   The key is that supernormal stimuli
   reverse the natural relationship
   between instinct and object. “Trust
   your instincts” works only if we’re out
   hunting and gathering, not when
   we’re bumbling around shopping
   centres. Becoming aware of
   supernormal stimuli does more than
   alert us to how these unfettered
   instincts fuel dangerous excesses.
   Once we recognise how supernormal
   stimuli operate, we can craft new
   approaches to modern predicaments.
   Humans have one stupendous
   advantage over Tinbergen’s birds – a
   huge brain with an especially well developed
   pre-frontal cortex.