Jonathan Haidt: "Social Psychology in an Age of Social Fragmentation"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Happiness Hypothesis - Cross Level Coherence
There's an idea that I tried to explain in a happiness hypothesis about cross level coherence. Whenever a system can be analyzed at multiple levels, a special kind of coherence occurs when the levels mesh and mutually interlock. And so you see this in personality. You might have sort of stories about yourself that fit with your lower level personality traits. But if my story isn't consistent with my lower level traits, then I'm incoherent. All of this is nested within my understanding of society and American history or some larger theory of politics. When things match the socio-cultural level down to the individual psychological level down to even the neurological level, you're much less likely to break. So
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