212 - The Power of Us - Jay Van Bavel

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🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In this episode, we sit down with psychologist Jay Van Bavel to discuss his new book, The Power of Us, an exploration of "the dynamics of shared, social identities. What causes people to develop social identities? What happens to people when they define themselves in terms of group memberships? Under what conditions does the human proclivity to divide the world into “us” and “them” produce toxic conflict and devastating discrimination? And how can shared identities instead be harnessed to improve performance, increase cooperation, and promote social harmony?"Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	I made his six part seven hour documentary called Exploring Genius and it is now available at Himalaya audio
0:07.0	You can think of it as kind of like a spin-off of your not-so-smart
0:10.4	And if you'd like to hear the first episode free and get two weeks of Himalaya for free
0:15.2	The link is over at your not-so-smart.com and my Twitter, which is at David McLean
0:20.5	And the your not-so-smart Twitter account, which is at not-smart blog and of course
0:24.9	Himalaya audio, which is a website you can go to to get audio from Himalaya
0:29.7	Also, this Friday your not-so-smart will be live on stage in New York City at caveat
0:36.8	Links to that are also at those same places
0:40.0	You'll need proof of vaccination to attend though, which is a nice segue into this audio from our guest in this episode
0:49.2	I actually have to say I had a really cool thing this week
0:51.6	I gave a talk to the White House on Friday and it was for the vaccination rollout around partisanship because it turns out
0:58.3	That's the biggest predictor vaccine hesitancy. They're trying to figure out like what they can do about this because in about a month
1:03.7	The problem that we have is going to shift from how do we get as many vaccines after everybody to how do we convince people to take them who don't want to take them
1:12.0	That is psychologist J. Van Babel
1:15.6	professor of psychology and
1:17.6	Neuroscience and the director of the social identity and morality lab at NYU
1:23.2	And this audio is from back in March when a month after getting vaccinated
1:27.6	I visited him at his apartment at NYU to talk about his upcoming book the power of us
1:33.9	Which is all about how social identities drive an enormous amount of our thoughts feelings and most importantly our
1:40.8	Behaviors and this episode is about that book and you will hear a lot of stuff about
1:47.1	Social identity in this episode even the fact that individuality is a social identity
1:53.1	So your propensity to act like an individual is something that you do because you're in a group
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