The Science of Empathy, with Stanford Professor Jamil Zaki
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The Rottenberry Hypothesis and the Psychology of Prejudice
Gordon all port is one of the great Psychologists of the 20th century and he wrote a book called the psychology of prejudice. He was wondering why do we write each other off so easily? Why do we have so much prejudice in our hearts And he came up with a very simple and profound idea: maybe we just don't know each other well enough Maybe if we got to know people who are different from us then we would naturally open up and our prejudice would fall away. It turns out that one of the reasons for that is empathy Is that when we connect with one person form a real deep relationship with somebody who's from a different group than ourselves. That opens you up to having less
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