Disrupting DEI – Reconstructing the Path Forward
Your Brain at Work
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The Importance of Cognitive Elaboration in Diverse Teams
In a diverse team, you have to explain yourself more and mentalize more about how other people might be seeing the world. The brain is built to tag anything that's hard as basically a threat response, something to avoid. So we feel less confident than we would in a homogeneous team where we go in and everyone understands us. Janet: Can you tell us what science can help DEI practitioners and organizations kind of recognize that discomfort that they're seeking or that they're seeing?
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