Sublime

The league had been dreamed up by Salma Mousa, a PhD candidate at Stanford who was interested in testing what’s known as the contact hypothesis—the theory that, if you bring people with clashing social identities together under specific conditions, you can overcome old hatreds.

The “bystander effect” is that, when someone is in trouble, solitary individuals are more likely to intervene than groups.

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

“I identified someone on the project team who was an ok performer and who the team really liked. Then I waited. When he said something in a project team meeting that sounded a little bit like he was objecting, I yelled, screamed, and threw him out of the room and off the project team in front of everyone.” William went on to explain “The team was c

This is not too surprising—the urge to help one of “Us” is stronger than the urge to help one of “Them” or to help an uncategorizable person.

when Externals were asked to cooperate with another child, they performed almost twice as well as when they were asked to compete. In fact, in the cooperative condition, they outperformed the Internals.

As my thesis advisor, the anthropologist Michael Jackson,

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