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The Status Game, by Will Store

Will store explains how status can help to explain polarization and extremism. The more fiercely you fought on behalf of your tribe, the more status that you earned. When our status is at stake, we are really vulnerable to falling for irrational beliefs. Will also tells the story of the 19 eighties satanic panic in America.

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