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Can We Bridge The Gap?: The Neuroscience of Division and Polarization with Jonathan Haidt and Alison Taylor

Your Brain at Work

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The Rise of Tribalism and Sectarianism

The brain's fundamental drive to create like in groups and out groups is at play. The new media environment has encouraged us not to do our work but to be performing all the time, he says. We are an innately tribal species; we love it so much that we invented team sports. But tribal people are not always focused on the in-group. They actually are very interested in trade and exchange.

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