Behaving Better Online

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Humans have become the most successful species on earth because of our ability to cooperate. Often we help strangers when there is no obvious benefit to us as individuals. But today in the age when social media and the internet could be seen as a way of bringing people together more than ever, the opposite is happening. In this two-part series for Discovery science writer Gaia Vince meets the psychologists, evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists who are studying our built in human behaviour in groups and asks how their discoveries can guide projects to increase cooperation.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds hello Marney
0:30.7	Chesterton from Crowds here, just gate-crashing the podcast you actually downloaded
0:35.0	to mention mine.
0:37.0	If you're the type of person who's ever wondered anything
0:40.0	about the world around you, then we are the podcast for you.
0:43.7	We take your questions on anything scientific and scour the globe for answers.
0:48.3	That's crowd science which you can find wherever you get your podcasts.
0:51.9	I'll get out of your ears now as you were. I was just
0:57.1	quite rude online to quite a few high-profile men which was obviously amazing
1:02.4	it felt great.
1:03.0	My tactic for dealing with trolls is mostly to ignore them and that's not necessarily a higher road position it's just about wanting to enjoy my own life.
1:12.0	That being said I've been very impressed by you know about wanting to enjoy my own life.
1:12.8	That being said, I've been very impressed
1:14.7	by Mary Beard here in the UK
1:17.7	who takes the time to respond
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