
Friends and Foes: The Neuroscience of In-Group and Out-Group with Harvard Professor Dr. Jason Mitchell
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The Importance of Recognizing Diversity
I think just kind of noticed the threat level. So I guess if you're overlaying threat and you're experiencing anxiety about an outgroup member there might be intensities, but it's probably very binary otherwise. It is actually part of who we are as a species to think about. There being in group members who are like me and outgroup members who don't count as much. The goal is probably not to quote unquote fix that entirely. That's probably a hopeless path just because these things really do run so deeply. We can create diversity initiatives or affirmative action programs or other aspects of our institutions that can guide people towards behaviors that we feel are going to decrease these in groups of
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