A deeper dive into the data, however, revealed that the participants displayed more brain activity while watching the pain of fans who liked the same team they did. They showed less brain activity when watching fans of a rival team. Their brains simply responded more to their ingroup

antagonism can emerge from arbitrary divisions

minimum amount of information required to trigger an ingroup bia

Although many participants reported that they cared for all people equally, brain imaging revealed a different story: people care about some more than others, and their subconscious selectivity was based on nothing more than a one-word label.

Strikingly, atheists showed the same ingroup bias as religious participants, suggesting the bias is not so much about religion as it is about the degree of affiliation to a group. Labels alone can spur bias.

the more empathic a participant claimed to be, the more she was biased in favor of her ingroup.

Remarkably, even though participants knew they had been randomly assigned, their brains showed the same patterns of ingroup allegiance and outgroup disregard. “Us” versus “them” does not need to be predicated on deep meaning: even arbitrary labels rapidly create bias.

, understand our own biases

build a better model of others

Theatre and books let people to step into the shoes of others, and with the printing press these stories spread widely.

learn and resist the tactics of dehumanisationlearn and resist the tactics of dehumanisation

, “blind” your biases

entangle group membership

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.

Without pain there would be no suffering without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right pain and suffering is the key to all windows without it there is no way of life.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

A Brooks Brothers button-down with an unfastened collar, rolled-up sleeves, and jeans makes for a comfortable, casual look.

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

Raman Singh has lost his image.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.