Tag: society
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Sharing.
In the modern world, people cooperate with other people including strangers all the time. Researchers reporting in Current Biology who've studied Hadza hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania over a six-year period have new and surprising insight into why people work together. The findings show that it isn't that people who like to share choose to live…
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Forgiving. Hating. Loving.
When assessing the moral character of others, people cling to good impressions but readily adjust their opinions about those who have behaved badly, according to new research. This flexibility in judging transgressors might help explain both how humans forgive - and why they sometimes stay in bad relationships, said the study's authors. (The research -…
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With respect to the dead... [The Coronavirus Sweden example]
Coronavirus crisis has helped in revealing the true nature of people and of states. Crises of such proportions do have the tendency of doing so. Within the crisis people feared death, people laughed at death, people showed ignorance of epic proportions for basic scientific facts, others just chose to worry about everything while some of…
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Against Trump (but everyone else too). Why politics is dead.
The recent coronavirus crisis revealed many things which remained safely hidden under the comfort of our everyday routine. As usual, a crisis of such proportions exposes the real self of men (and women). And what emerged from those ICU beds, the agony, the fear, the irony and the disbelief (of those who do not believe…
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The power of minorities. Modern society. Interlinked.
A study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change. (1) Even the 1 can change the…
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