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Using Psychology to Create a Better Society - Prof. Mick Cooper

The Weekend University

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The Importance of Understanding Human Beings as Agents

I think one of the key themes of the book is that if we've got a political set of beliefs, what is our model of the person behind it? Like how do we see people functioning. And coming from a humanistic existential background, I guess my model of theperson is something about understanding people as kind of having some kind of activity or agency going out and meeting the world. It's no good on the one hand claiming to be progressive on believing in fairness, but then kind of seeing ourselves as more active than others or smart than others. You know, just like myself, other people are trying to do their best.

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