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Separating Yourself from the Pack

Hidden Brain

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Are We Following Political Events? What Happened to Your Aunt?

i think that most of us don't pect that the people whom we would count as our closest and dearest friends, almost family, could say to us: 'We're no longer welcome here' That's one of the things that i find most terrifying, but also most interesting, about group dynamics, is how quickly they shift. And it reveals that in our day to day lives, we have these strong moral prohibitions against harm that guide most of our behaviours most of the time. But all that seems to go out the window when the gravitational pull of groups exerts its force. When it starts to alline people within groups and aline against each other between groups, that behaviour changes

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