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We automatically see groups as things with a mind of their own
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Affinity bias keeps us comfortable in our social
LaTonya Wilkins • Leading Below the Surface
Identification as a member of an in-group or out-group by the audience.
Karen Eber • The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire
Mistrust May Mobilize the Right and Disengage the Left
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
from Karen Stenner:"All the available evidence indicates that exposure to difference, talking about difference, and applauding difference - the hallmarks of liberal democracy - are the surest ways to aggravate those who are innately intolerant, and to guarantee the increased expression of their predispositions in manifestly intolerant attitudes and... See more
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
social redundancy makes people accountable.
Damon Centola • Change
“cognitive entrenchment.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
biases can creep in when similarity and frequency diverge.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Being in a group does not stimulate independent reasoning but rather the intense desire to belong.