Sublime

Since most of us like to think we are decent people, forcing someone to affirm their own values before exercising a judgment involving others might reduce prejudice. Psychologists these days encourage parents to tell their children not that they should be nice, but that they are nice, and all they have to do is to behave in conformity with their na

Dans ses études, Tajfel démontre deux choses : premièrement, que les humains sont sociaux, et deuxièmement qu’ils sont antisociaux. Ils sont sociaux parce qu’ils aiment les membres de leur propre groupe. Antisociaux parce qu’ils n’aiment pas ceux des autres groupes.

we could identify which people were members of the same company with more than go percent accuracy simply by looking at which groups of people had identical patterns of oscillation between exploring and integration.

war strengthens people’s egalitarian motivations, but only toward their in-groups.

By optimizing the brain’s full capacity for social learning, these practices expand the mind’s openness to shared introspection and corrective dialogue; and by cultivating that shift in a stable, supportive social learning environment, they sustain that openness though repeated practice over time. As a result, they facilitate a gradual dismantling

distributed, passionate motivation. These two networks are woven

As the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett puts it, “Being curious about your friend’s experience is more important than being right.”

Psychologists today teach how one person may influence another to do things otherwise foreign to his nature.

Across many kinds of settings, people are more inclined to act prosocially [58]when they are observable to others, even if these others are not fellow activists in a cause.