Psychological Neoteny The next time you see a mother of three head-banging to death metal or a 50-year-old man sporting a faux-hawk, don’t laugh. According to Bruce Charlton, a doctor and psychology professor at Newcastle University in Britain, what looks like immaturity — or in Charlton’s kinder terms, the “retention of youthful attitudes and behaviors into later adulthood” — is actually a valuable developmental characteristic, which he calls psychological neoteny.
I knew science would come up with a label for me one of these days....
Happy Holidays, MoFo.
I think the Pope is some sort of pagan, bird-worshipper, but she keeps the details to herself.
