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You Are Not So Smart

122 - Tribal Psychology

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The evidence is clear that humans value being goo…

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0:00.0

No. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 122. 22. In the 1970s, in the 1970s, a psychologist named Henri Tagefell

0:51.0

developed something called Social Identity Theory, which basically said that when we define ourselves,

0:57.6

we do so in large part by asserting our loyalty to the groups to which we belong.

1:03.4

Tashfeld developed this theory when in his research he discovered it didn't take very

1:08.0

much for humans to organize themselves into groups and once they did they immediately began to act like

1:14.8

assholes to people who were in groups that they were not.

1:18.3

Tage-Fill's experiments showed that humans can enter into us versus them thinking in

1:25.9

seconds and they will do so over just about anything. a number of experiments and decades of research what he eventually discovered was that first of all the more

1:47.3

Intense a conflict is the more you think of your competitor as an outgroup member, not as an individual.

1:54.0

That's political scientist Lilliana Mason.

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I am Lilliana Mason.

1:58.0

I am a political scientist in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park

2:04.6

and I specialize in political psychology and American political behavior.

2:08.9

Ah well you must be very busy then. Yeah, yeah, no, someone recently, people keep saying,

2:15.9

isn't this an exciting time for you?

2:17.4

It must be such an exciting time for you.

2:19.6

And someone recently used the analogy.

2:21.6

It's sort of like, you know know when there's an Ebola outbreak and

2:24.8

people ask medical doctors isn't this a really exciting time for you?

2:28.6

Wow, oh my God. As Mason mentioned, T Taj Fell's social identity theory posits that not only do people form groups very easily,

2:39.0

but once they do, once their individual identity is tied up to their group membership, they tend to see people

2:45.7

who aren't in those groups as lesser than in some way.

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