This may help explain your angry tRumpster uncle

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...Bonobos Shun Helpers And Befriend the Bullies



Even very young babies can tell the difference between someone who's helpful and someone who's mean — and lab studies show that babies consistently prefer the helpers.

But one of humans' closest relatives — the bonobo — makes a different choice, preferring to cozy up to the meanies.
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"The bonobos weren't very interested in the helper," says Krupenye. Instead, they consistently chose to take food from the jerk.

Humans might not want to interact with someone who is not nice, but it looks like bonobos interpret the meanie's behavior as a sign of dominance. - Utah Public Radio

[Thomas Hurt]

1. So you are saying that conservatives are, what is the term, bottoms?

[Phoenix61]

2. Having read the article I just have one

comment. These were all orphaned bonobos. What was their experience with a nurturing maternal relationship? How did they come to be orphaned? Were they mistreated by "mean" humans before being rescued? Extrapolating anything from their behavior is problematic.

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3. Where this article's research may have relevence is in general behavior pattern recognition

We as humans recognize patterns. Whether the Bonobos were orphaned, raised by wolves or were all rescued in a lifeboat at sea, is way beyond the general behavior pattern I think should be drawn.

Extrapolating their pattern of behavior is completely consistent with human pattern recognition and possibly consistent with explaining why certain humans are drawn to mean personalities, aka bullies.

[Phoenix61]

5. Actually, how they were raised is very relevant

This isn't just about pattern recognition it's about responding to those patterns and that is learned behavior. Orphaned animals have a very different learning environment than those raised with a primary caregiver. If they want to extrapolate this to how people exposed to trauma in early childhood react, ok, but otherwise it's not a representative sample of normal development so shouldn't be used to extrapolate behavior for that population.

[rusty fender]

4. Some people are just jerks

Some primates are jerks.

Your trumpster uncle is a jerk.