Us and Them Berreby David
Us and Them Berreby David Democrat and Republican. Black and White. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group-say, Red Sox fans-we tend to feel…
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Us and Them Berreby David
Democrat and Republican. Black and White. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians.
And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group-say, Red Sox fans-we tend to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say, Yankees fans. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same time-one might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist.
How do we decide which identities matter and why they matter so much? And what makes us willing to die for, or to kill for, a religion, a nation, or a race?In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how twenty-first-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Ably linking neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields, Us and Them investigates humanity's "tribal mind" and how this alters our thoughts, affects our health, and is manipulated