They found that social judgments (e.g., reading a person’s intentions, or anticipating their feelings) are handled by different parts of the brain than judgments about the physical world.

We reasoned that switching starts as a deliberate decision but [57]becomes automatized in response to cultural cues—what I now call “tribal triggers.”

that corruption is largely cultural and (in part for that reason) changeable.

Cultural codes spring to the fore of our minds when they are triggered by the situation.

Our upward-directed fascination with celebrities, CEOs, MVPs, and other elites comes from the hero instinct,

American and Chinese participants was their [52]perception of their peers’ beliefs; and these differing views of peers, more than any differences in personal

Across the world, societies were evolving as globalized generations developed new lifestyles through selective retention of their parents’ ways and heightened borrowing from other traditions.

Though science is increasingly adopting this dynamic paradigm, the practical world still tends to construe cultural patterns as unchanging (and unchangeable).

At a time of ethnic strife, pandemics, and climate crisis, our human capacity to act collectively is more important than ever.