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S2E03: Your Mind on Loneliness & Social Connection, with Dr. Elisa Baek

Minds Matter

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The Tension Between Prejudice Reduction and Intergroup Relations

Dr. Alyssa Beck says that pulling people blindly to whatever norm already exists isn't what we want. People who are able to live within these norms are the ones who experience the most well-being because they're fit to their environment which is really important. But at the same time in studies where they do do these interventions to reduce prejudice a lot of the times the people who are involved in those interventions experience higher well-being but then don't have motivations to change the structures that they're living in I think that's a really difficult tension.

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