Sublime

Le problème est le suivant : « L’identité de groupe peut être fractionnée jusqu’au niveau de l’individu. » Il faudrait inscrire cette phrase en lettres capitales. Chaque individu est unique. Et pas seulement de manière superficielle. Chaque individu est significativement unique. L’appartenance à un groupe ne peut pas refléter cette variabilité.

I can be clear about my biases, too. I spent the better part of a decade doing laboratory research on a tiny parasite that infects mouse brains and maybe makes the infected host mouse prefer the smell of cat urine just a little bit more than they had before. Thus, I am a mind-control parasite guy.

Just giving a different name to a randomly chosen group of participants got in-group members to favor their own over the others.

Aligned with this new direction, breakthroughs in our understanding of the prefrontal cortex, limbic system, and brainstem have revealed the human brain to be much more geared to social cognition, social

Beliefs, practices, technologies, and social norms—culture—can shape our brains, biology, and psychology, including our motivations, mental abilities, and decision-making biases.

Stephen Palmer, a professor of psychology at the University of California who directs the Visual Perception and Aesthetics Lab,

As my thesis advisor, the anthropologist Michael Jackson,

We hold specific beliefs that are aligned with our identity and, since we self-identify by certain monikers (family name, title, organization, religion), we are inclined to adopt the worldview that is associated with these categorical labels.