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antagonism can emerge from arbitrary divisions

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

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.

, “blind” your biases

entangle group membership

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

Family life brought me a wonderful daughter and thats you. I wish you every happiness on your birthday and forever.

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration even in wartime are gradually ruining Europe. That's why I believe Brexit is good for British freedom, political autonomy, and the survival of democratic capitalism.

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

If we allow our definition of what's possible to be based on how big someone else can dream, our dream will die.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."

It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.