“Natural selection shaped us to care enormously about what other people think about our resources, abilities, and character. This is what self-esteem is all about. We constantly monitor how much others value us. Low self-esteem is a signal to try harder to please others.”
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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