Do you recognize your own biases?

@yumnaapta

3 жыл бұрын

us vs them: ppl who not watching this channel

@KillerOfCereal1

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes.

@timofeymistral4496

3 жыл бұрын

Getting better every day thanks to mindfulness

@PedanticNo1

3 жыл бұрын

Of course I do! (/s)

@gavinbamber6082

3 жыл бұрын

It is easier to recognize other people's biases.

We criticise others of being evil while we nourish devils within ourselves .

All these videos on cognitive bias are really making an impact on my day to day interactions. It's hard to be unbiased, much harder in practice than on paper.

@AceofDlamonds

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Even Dr. Sapolsky says he has violent fantasies and then he tries to talk himself out of it for a short time but they keep coming back. Part of being a typical human...

@squamish4244

3 жыл бұрын

WAY harder. That's the job of applied neuroscience. I do neurofeedback, brainwave entrainment and vagus nerve stimulation in what started as an attempt to get off benzos but has evolved into an effort to get my nervous system to calm the fuck down in general.

@KootFloris

3 жыл бұрын

Did you also include the bias/assumptions of the speakers and your own in your conclusion?

@jdavis7993

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it actually is pretty difficult. Even dealing with bigots, I understand that their biases TRIGGER a bias in me, and it can be hard not to hold it against them and remember that they can change.

@sweetbunny6198

3 жыл бұрын

@J Davis Are you red pilled?

Robert Sapolsky touches on this topic extensively in his lectures at Stanford and various interviews.

@hifibrony

3 жыл бұрын

The Stanford lectures are fascinating and very enlightening.

@michaeljohnson6752

3 жыл бұрын

And his book behave

@I-0-0-I

3 жыл бұрын

Sean Carrol’s Mindscape has a great interview.

@timeisup3094

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikekane2492 It think the “new book” will focus mostly on the absurdities within the justice system.

@radhikayadav1409

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikekane2492 really glad to know, I am looking forward too could you please tell me the relevance between Kahneman and sapolsky do they share something in common? thank you

During my younger years I have been arrogant. Now 61 i realise that we all need each other whether we want it or not. Every scew pot has a lid and we're all cogs in the clock of life

@KootFloris

3 жыл бұрын

I think you could be an example for many (Americans?) caught in the Us vs Them trap, either by cultural bias or by design through political players who manipulate their audience.

@KootFloris

3 жыл бұрын

@wisdom niko Great addition! Sadly the political leaders still haven't learned from global heroes like Nelson Mandela, that integrity and the will to solve huge issues for many, including 'the other side' should rank above super PAC funding.

@KootFloris

3 жыл бұрын

@wisdom niko I know. One fun idea would be if our leaders couldn't step up to be candidates, but they could only be forwarded by the people, like each neighborhood choosing the wisest (wo)man among them, and they choosing after a year from among them the best to lead the city, etc. This council would be yearly elected with hidden votes, so even your favorite smart aunt could suddenly be a leader, because many people sensed her integrity, and we could collectively ignore the loudmouths shouting choose me. ;)

@Matrinique

3 жыл бұрын

Heheh stealing this quote from you. Well said.

@peetsnort

2 жыл бұрын

@Macho Sancho I brought you into the world and I can take you out. Don't worry. You will grow old and hopefully up

Oh, it's DAN Shapiro. Dan. The alternative would've been too ironic.

"Nothing interesting begins with knowing, it begins with not knowing", that is, a question or query line.

As soon as you label someone 'other', your brain sees 'lesser', and that justifies your bad behaviour to them.

@terrillmel

3 жыл бұрын

Woah.! That's profound. I've tried to describe this, but have never been able to do so in such few words

Sapolski explains things really well!

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

Just a heads up, you can find his entire Biology and Human behavior course on youtube as well as other courses of his.

@middearuna6163

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ddub1083 in my to all î,

I thought one of the speakers was Ben Shapiro. That would have blown my mind... and broken the irony meter.

@Ikbeneengeit

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@JarodM

3 жыл бұрын

Likewise, we all fell for that last name...

@unknownethnicity

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Ben really is a “them” isn’t he?

@Ikbeneengeit

3 жыл бұрын

@@unknownethnicity Ben S is not someone known for well reasoned science based education.

@unknownethnicity

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ikbeneengeit man, those “others” really make no sense to us!

I have a story about racism. I'm Swedish, 49, so it's safe to say that I've had my fair share of immigrants and racism around me. Now I live in Thailand since 8-9 years and now I'm the different one. I'm not a person. I am the "farang". People stare and talk when they think I don't see. Some don't even give a rats about that. Maybe you think that I'm full of shit but I'm not making it up. I experience that every day. Its not easy. Drives me insane sometimes. And I have the choice to go back. The immigrants in Sweden don't have that option. Long story slightly shorter... I'm going to think twice when I look down upon people from different parts of the world from the day I get back home. Really eye opening. And I've never been intentionally racist. Everyone should get a dose of racism before they look down upon any other brother or sister. That's what we are. No matter religion or colour. Sounds clicheish... I know. But... 😊

@justbe1451

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, great share, thanks. 👍

@naejin

2 жыл бұрын

No, it's true. I've heard similar stories when foreigners try to live in China or Japan or such. Looking from another person's perspective is hard to imagine accurately, but seeing is easier when you walk in that perspective.

@angelinarobert622

2 жыл бұрын

i'm genetically Swedish, Dane, English, and Finnish. i was born in California. But i've been living in Japan for 20 years. i'm just a white man in an Asian world. i like it here, can i stay in Japan?

@irishhi8333

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't a certain proportion of who are "us or them" based on early socialization? Wouldn't folks who grow up with more social heterogeneity potentially have a greater "us" than "them"? And, doesn't social indoctrination, propaganda and spiritual inculcation influence humans' perception of these elements as well?

@FoxinTaiwan

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have to think twice about it. People are people.

This is really important to understand, especially during our age where the political divide is absolutely insane. So much of what we do and think is determined by our primitive instincts that evolved to historically aid in our survival. Humans have survived in small tribes and groups and been hostile to members of opposing tribes because it was essential to our survival and while these conditions don't necessarily apply to our world, the instincts have remained.

@gontlemanggeneral-segolodi5222

3 жыл бұрын

Humans were genetically engineered by aliens.

@AceofDlamonds

3 жыл бұрын

@@gontlemanggeneral-segolodi5222 Stop with the pseudoscience. No we weren't.

@afriedrich1452

3 жыл бұрын

All I want to know is how to weaponize the coronavirus. Oh wait, there was a book written about that about 5 years ago. It is so nice when knowledge is shared in our world.

@AceofDlamonds

3 жыл бұрын

@@afriedrich1452 Are you claiming bioweaponry was introduced in that book? You're 100 years late. Are you claiming pathogenic human coronaviruses weren't known until recently? You're 19 years late. Are you claiming scientists and activists didn't warn about a pandemic until "5 years ago"? Then you're several decades late. Silly conspiracy theory claptrap isn't "knowledge". lmaoooo...

@afriedrich1452

3 жыл бұрын

@@AceofDlamonds Why are you claiming I made claims? Anyway, the head of that silly conspiracy theory claptrap is highly honored and well paid by a well known government.

Modern world requires different tribes to get along. Peace and prosperity depend on it. The ideas in this video are probably more important than anything else at this point in human history.

Well we might be very quick to judge based on first impressions, but as Daniel Kahneman showed us in Thinking fast and slow, knowing that this is how we work, we can be skeptical of our own first judgements, and think again. We can choose to ignore our first impulses, get more frontal lobe involved, and make more well though through decisions and actions. Acting like this, and continuing to get better at this, for me, feels like a sort of will-driven personal evolution.

@Messi10947

3 жыл бұрын

that makes sense and sounds really cool

@cassieoz1702

3 жыл бұрын

Great book

@BlueInk912

3 жыл бұрын

🙌 That is how positive change starts it long and vigilent road💪.

This was by far the best piece that I’ve seen from this channel.

Possibly the most important topic or set of topics on Big Think. The ability to recognize your own biases and innate tendencies is something no other living being does, and it is key to creating a better world.

@Calligraphybooster

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t conclude that too soon. Dolphins can make detailed 3d images of underwater objects via sonar. But... they can also ‘say’ the sound of the reflected pulses to other dolphins, thus planting an image directly into their brains. I tell you this just to make aware of levels of sophistication that exist elsewere, and that suggest wider possibilities.

Enjoyed everyone's insight, thanks~

I was thinking about these issues and Big Think drops a video. Love this content. Keep stimulating my mind.

Seventeen astonishingly brilliant and informative minutes.

What a great compilation of great thinkers. Awesome lecture on social organisation! So much to read up on.

This actually emphasises the importance of representation and mindful portrayal of others, particularly in the media or in books etc which some people are actually fighting against.

A commitment to self-honesty and the awareness of subconscious impulses and abandoned falsehoods that science affords us is the best we can do. It took me over 5 decades of life experiences and scientific literacy,and deep soul searching,to become aware of the fearful truth of how un-self-aware a huge portion of humanity is.

"Subjectivity is the only certainty" Kierkegaard "Hell is other people" Sartre

Fascinating! Thank you .

by far my fav vid by big think!! This answers a lot of things on my mind!

While none of this seems particularly new, it is wonderful to have it articulated so clearly. In the end, we are all slaves to our egos. What flatters the self and pleases the senses is good; what hurts the self and causes pain is bad.

@SK-tk6bi

7 ай бұрын

True

For more I recommend "Survival of the Friendliest," "Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society," and "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress."

@Messi10947

3 жыл бұрын

thanks will check out. i think i will like survival of the friendliest

@JarodM

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations~

@cass8330

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

So interesting and well explained.

Great video. Great explanation of a topic that is especially important for as many people as possible to understand in today's social climate.

The summary: Technically we are always associating people like us (in-groups) and them (outgroups). This division that we create in the brain is enhanced by Oxytocin in the brain. We become closer to our people and away from others because of it. It's classically seen in many movies where the heroes are always someone like us, living with us and villains are them, the aliens, the non-English speakers, etc. We tend to like people who look like people around us. Most Indians will like Indian faces more than American faces. Here also we create a sense of us and them while trusting people. We can be easily manipulated to change who is us and who is them. Example: In general you will likely say Indians are us and Americans are they. Now let's say you like Chennai Super Kings. Then the Americans and Indians who support CSK are us and those who don't are they. The dividing line is extremely malleable, the good thing is we can have empathy for 'them' because of this, while the bad thing is we can be manipulated to believe who is us and who is them easily. We are hardwired to judge people at the first look. In absence of information, we make assumptions about things in a fraction of seconds. We can not wait to know if a reptile with sharp teeth has the intention to hurt us or not, we assume it hurts and we act accordingly. But this hardwiring is malleable. We can change our mind when we are safe and have more information about the reptile. In the first instance, Batman's Joker seems evil, but as we learn more about him, we can empathise with him.

Superb video. Oxytocin is not a panacea. Beware the dangers of careless compassion.

@cass8330

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by careless?.. also, what should ppl do instead?

The only us vs them that matters is class.

Engage in the process of creating perception .... well said

finally someone breaks the taboo. Guys? We are not godlike beings, we are just an animals. That's the hardest to swallow pill for humanity.

this video is wonderful and helpful. thank you very much

Easy. Get to know 'them' better and scrutinized 'us' more than usual. The more we do this, the more refined assumptions we can think of.

The point Prof. Amy Chua brings up is very simple, but significant because branding and algorithems are aiming at molding us into identities we did not even choose ourselves, but seperate us from others.

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

No they are aiming to show you a piece of content that you are most likely going to keep watching. An effect of this process is that the topics recommended get smaller and smaller as they get more and more accurate. But that is not their "aim"

Here is a nice anecdote. I live in a neighborhood where most people are not European white. I am. One day I was walking my dog and there was a group of four European white young man on the corner of the street. Immediately I was very suspicious, what where they doing there. Didn’t trusted it at all. Apparently my brains started to consider people of my ethnically they group as “the others”

GREAT WORK

I love what you are doing here. There is an enormous lack of education, poverty, and equity that will prevent folks who need to hear this from watching. I'm a grad student too. Take this to the streets

@urbanwarchief

2 жыл бұрын

Pfft you go to the streets

@marthamryglod291

Жыл бұрын

In my experience, it's a lack of interest in the topic preventing people from learning. It seems that most people just want to keep what they "know" consistent. It brings a feeling of security.

Magnifique - very useful

Robert Sapolsky is one of us he is right! O_O

Always great to listen to Dr. Robert Sapolsky speak!

Objectivity is a goal to strive for, not an end state.

Marshal Rosenberg dedicated his life to understanding this and found another way to understand the us and them.

From the book, 'The Four Agreements' Don't act on your assumptions as if they were facts.

I particularly take to the "loyalty to the tribe" issue. It's so frustrating when I see someone come to the correct conclusion for the wrong reason, whether it is factually off or just a reasoning I don't agree with. Out of fairness, I feel like the logical problem has to be pointed out, but then I get accused of not being supportive of the overall position. Very frustrating.

Great compilation. Y’all need Joshua Greene on to talk about this topic

The infamous prejudices. Can we approach every situations without tension?

Covid has really demonstrated to me the truth of this - in-group/out-group biases are hard wired into everyone, everywhere. It's as instinctive as it gets. Thankfully, as Sapolsky explains, it can be easily overcome by people who understand it.

Very good video. Question everything we believe.

🤯 Thank you

What you said there is contrast difference. Becouse one is associated with who thry know and other doing and being the same thing is considered different of understanding. Disconnecting it is.

that's always been the challenge

Fabulous!

We should change us and them to make a better world

THIS. IS. SO. IMPORTANT.

This makes me think of that black man (can't remember his name) that became friends with KKK members and made over 200 of them turn in their robes. He appealed to their commonality by talking about shared interests like jazz and it broke down barriers, and racism. Shared commonality needs to be encouraged more often.

I believe looks are huge subliminally, but I think language is the biggest barrier between “peoples”. I find it easier to get along with some who speaks similar to me, regardless of that they look like. If you cannot communicate properly with someone, you mis trust them.

Everything you do is grounded in your assumptions Favorite quote of this video!

Wow, always knew about Robert Sapolsky, but Beau Lotto is a revelation. Almost a younger version. So rare to have a neuroscientist who is so eloquent and yet explains it simply with great power.

I’m guessing that a social media platform that bans any political talk would be a colossal success. People are sick of this hateful political world.

If it's hard wired, why not just accept it and learn to live with it.

Does this also apply to audio, like voices and familiar accents?

@perpetualgrimace

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

It applies to ANY input to your brain because it is your brain that is doing the processing.

Good video, but I don't mind "theming" someone for their own destructive behaviors and opinions. What I can't defend is theming someone over things they can't help physically and mentally. There is no justification for being rotten to a person over those things.

"We aren't going to make it, are we? Humans I mean." - John Connor

Interesting.

YOUR FACE=mc2 IS YORE FAITH IN THE OTHER SIDE=mc2 OF THE MIRROR CALL MIRACLE=mc2 of, "Is IT ME=mc2 or is IT memory? "

This is also why you have antagonists in visual media being portrayed possessing a number of attractive, trustworthy, or sympathetic features in a narrative whenever the audience is meant to be more inclined to listen to both sides of the conflict between them and the protagonist. This is utilizing those inherent reflexes of ours by making intentional design choices, in order to make it so that the audience is more likely to have to individually determine which position is morally justified and aligns with their "us" group - rather than outright rejecting the person in the position of the enemy in the narrative structure _just_ because they're in a "them" group and not in the "us" group that you're aligned to via the story's initially structured perspective.

I noticed that Sapolsky said many times "oh my God". That seems to be an example of "us versus them" phenomena. Also, this information is extremely important. However there's another whole set of information that was completely disregarded. That is information on cultural evolution instead of biological evolution. Biological evolution has very little reach. Cultural evolution can have unlimited reach. We are not automatons like all the other animal species. We are very different. We are the only species that can create new knowledge. Also, I believe that we can create unlimited improvements in moral and political philosophy if we choose to do so. The focus on biological evolution should be replaced by a focus on cultural evolution. Specifically, we need to develop ways of eliminating errors, like religions, without violence.

💖I always like these videos...

@thebeamerdreamer

3 жыл бұрын

(I know its out of place but) Hey fellow army 👋

@kalyanib4046

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebeamerdreamer heyy💜

Sound is very low, pleas fix it.

We're a constitutional republic not a democracy love the show👍

So it looks like the Us vs Them bias has been extensively researched and understood but somehow it has not yet reached the mainstream discussion about racial behavior in our societies

You tell 'em.

About typicality : I think we are more likely to trust the faces we can read best. That will be the ones we have seen the most examples of, and that tends to be whatever in-group we are part of. I'm not saying prejudicial biases play no part. After all., prejudice blocks empathy. But I think readability is often key, especially in those moments of racism perpetrated by people who are not otherwise racist at all

Only fools trust stranger.

Beau lotto has caused me both a crush and a serious mental breakdown

We have to work at overcoming the us vs. them predisposition every day. It takes effort and vigilance. And while we're working on our own behavior and beliefs, we should also strive to help others begin to see what's behind some of the beliefs and biases that they have. Of course, this can be very frustrating, but it's worth the effort.

All we need is a new them, Aliens. Humanity will unite immediately

Alex🥰 wish American men could express themselves as beautifully as you do. ☺️

What we've been waiting for 🙌

One cure to this us vs them disease we are currently dealing with is limit your time on social media and spend more time reading books or going for a walk.

10/10

Once you start to realize that all things are one in the same energy, these primitive mindsets start to fall away. It takes effort and retraining ourselves. But I have seen it happening in myself.

@hughallbrooks8369

3 жыл бұрын

Right primate mindset that is what these experts are reinforcing Humans don't interact on a wild animal level. If this debate was totally true How would they explain interracial couples Ppl just override one biological impulse over another This science is shady

@felipejr.deleon9741

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct. We just have to make people more self-aware to recognize that they have a higher self that does not fragment us into "us and them."

@hughallbrooks8369

3 жыл бұрын

@@felipejr.deleon9741 RT the World Corporations promote divisiveness among different races and ethnicities. Amazon purposely hires people not inclined to unify together so as not to be able to unionize against exploitation. Its always the have against the have nots everything else is distraction

@felipejr.deleon9741

3 жыл бұрын

@@hughallbrooks8369 Definitely. Politicians also like to see people fragmented into left and right, Democrats and Republicans, and white and blue collar workers to keep them distracted and not be able to unify to demand from their leaders to work for the common good.

@afriedrich1452

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, my energy is ultraviolet. Compare that to your measly infrared.

Hello, can you please recommend me some books on this topic

@jim67z

2 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Junger - Tribe

@christosphilippou1693

2 жыл бұрын

@@jim67z thanks

Bill Hicks - Its just a ride

How do you fix judging the world by us and them isn't this something that on an evolutionary standard we should have grown out of

It is a universal trait of human nature the people prefer to deal with their own kind, their own language ,their own values ,their own traditions. They trust their own kind more. It probably it became an innate feature of human nature during the long millennia when they were in living in tribes. People learn to depend upon and trust their own kind is a trait which holds society together. When immigrants come they universally prefer their own kind.

You forget to mention culture and how difficult it is to get out of that? Take for example Indonesian islands that do not want foreigners to visit. Their resources are very limited and they cannot share.

Sapolsky is so great man

I think this is especially true of the United States. No country on earth loves to villainize other people and other countries as we do.

Lore of The science behind ‘us vs. them’ momentum 100

I think I agree wirh you, but I don't play that game well because I'm a loner. No us or them.

Very insightful, but I must admit a bias to experts that repeatedly say "right?" to reinforce points of discussion. Can you pick out the target of my bias here? It's not a deal breaker,...

I looked at the screen, saw Todorov's face and found it attractive. Only now at the end of the video I look again at the screen and see the name - assuming he's of Bulgarian descend, it comes to no surprise that I can relate to his face features.

That guy with big long curly hair teaches in the Stanford University. Awsm💯

Is vs. them mentally is about duality. That’s a 3D way of thinking. Many people are now switching to the fifth dimension. We see things in many shades of gray

@50-50_Grind

Жыл бұрын

Wait till you get to the 9th dimension!

What makes us "US" is that WE=mc2 don't need words to describe life, & them, Them is that "They" need words to live descriptively in Their Scripts. Know Yore Script Chores!

my biggest take away from this video is that I need to know Robert Sapolsky's hair routine ASAP /s