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Acquiring Power Biologically Impairs Empathy and Degrades Foundational Social Skills
“Once you feel powerful... You lose all the social skills that got you power in the first place, you know, and, you know, we show when I feel powerful, I read people's emotions less effectively, I interrupt them more, And then all hell breaks loose, and you kno…”
Parents Must Expose Children to Suffering to Raise Altruistic Adults
“I think it's important for parents to let kids Experience suffering and to see suffering, right? To recognize that there's pain that this is part of the human condition, because that's really what activates a lot of the pro-social stuff is suffering. And, you …”
Maternal Caregiving Biology Explains Why Women Collaborate More Than Men
“And these interesting sex differences but they are there and I think have interesting things to say about why women are more collaborative and live longer and handle stress in different ways. I think a lot begins with just that basic source of caregiving they …”
Shifting Historical Contexts Cause Valid Psychological Replication Failures
“By definition, we believe that phenomena change as a function of the social context. That's the heart of social psychology. If I'm in one situation, I behave differently than in another situation or one context. And I think that what we should start to make su…”
Acquiring Power Amplifies Preexisting Character Traits Rather Than Corrupting Uniformly
“If I'm really competitive and self-serving and I get power, I'm even more competitive and self-serving and corrupts. But, critically, if I'm kind and Dalai Lama-like and I get power, I'm even more sacrifice-oriented and other-focused, right? Power reveals.”
Emotions Evolved Primarily to Build Essential Human Relationships
“What they were arguing for, if you read them carefully, is that our emotions and how we express them in our facial expressions and our voice and what happens in our body Are really about building the strong relationships that define the human species, the atta…”
Human Fathers Uniquely Recognize Offspring to Actively Provide Care
“We're an unusual primate in that, you know, like chimpanzees, males don't even know who really know who their offspring are given their reproductive patterns. And I write about this in born to be good. You know, the female goes into estrus mates with every mal…”
Expanding Compassion to Out-Groups Relies on Culture Over Biology
“I do think that that is the, that is where we encounter the limits of evolutionary biology, and we have to get to cultural practices, like extending compassionate people who are not like us.”
Parents Foster Empathy by Asking Reflective Questions Rather Than Preaching
“How you get them to empathize is by asking questions and then being quiet and letting the kids reason. So, you know, if a conflict's happening, the parent who leads the kids towards empathy is saying things like, God, you know, why is your little sister crying…”