{"id":6166,"date":"2014-05-08T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2014-05-08T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T01:08:13","slug":"the-better-angels-of-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined\/","title":{"rendered":"The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/The-Better-Angels-of-Our-Nature-Why-Violence-Has-Declined-27931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/27931.jpg\" alt=\"27931\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6168\" \/><\/a>Believe it or not, violence has been in decline over long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species&#8217; existence. Violence has decreased by dramatic degrees all over the world in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Today, human nature comprises inclinations toward violence and inclinations that counteract them &#8212; what Abraham Lincoln called the &#8220;better angels of our nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker presents data supporting this surprising conclusion, and explains how changing historical circumstances have stirred these angels of human nature including self-control, empathy, and reason.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/The-Better-Angels-of-Our-Nature-Why-Violence-Has-Declined-27931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined<\/a>, a UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, violence has been in decline over long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species&#8217; existence. Violence has decreased by dramatic degrees all over the world in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}