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In his work on the psychology of emotion and moral judgment, David DeSteno, a psychologist at Northeastern University, has studied the effect of such “team affiliation” on moral reasoning. In one experiment, subjects who had just met were randomly divided into teams by giving them colored wristbands. Then they were separated. The first group was to

One way we validate this is with an instrument called the EQ-i 2.0 360. This compares a person with how others who know him or her well—managers, peers, subordinates, spouse—would complete the same ratings on that person.

was the effect of the repeated social connection with other people.

Humans tend to be tribal and have a huge propensity for kindness – but within their identified community

Social psychologist Dorwin Cartwright

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

During the course of treatment, orientation stands as a safe proxy for this complex, while capacity is grown for actual social engagement. The sensory system is a primary contributor to axes of interconnection and has been implicated in an fMRI study as a deficit in adults with PTSD (Leite et al., 2022).

when we think about other people’s minds, we are actually modelling their mindstate in the virtual space of our own mind,