237 - Reactance - Michele Belot
You Are Not So Smart
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The Nature of Prejudice
Groupish behaviour is motivated by a desire to shape the world so that future outcomes favor us more than they favor them. Another big idea explored in the paper is alport's contact hypothesis, which proposed interaction people who belong to different groups rereliably reduces prejudice. But only when that interaction isn't fraught with conflict.
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