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Ritual: Why Seemingly Senseless Acts Making Life Worth Living (Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas)

The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)

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The Role of Rituals in Creating a Family

There's something called phenotypic matching and other animals do it we do it as well. Our brain is very attentive to cues of phenotypic similarity because phenotype the way we look closely resembles genotype, the way we're connected to others through our genes. If somebody looks more like me, they're more likely to be related to me so you can see how in a small scale society that is very useful. So I tend to refer to rituals as social technologies, and as social as any technology, they can be used for better and for worse. And there's no way, again, I'm somewhat humorously thinking back to the football games like they really care about their team and

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