Dr. Jamil Zaki

A lot of us, well, human beings in general, have the instinct to trust and be kinder towards people who look like us. versus people who don't, for instance, who share our racial makeup. None of us, I think, or a few of us sit here and say, well, I have that bias in my mind, so I guess I'm always going to be racially biased. We try to counteract those instincts.

We try to become aware of those biases. Depressed people have the bias to see themselves as worthless and to interpret new information they receive through that framework. Well, therapy is the attempt to say, I don't want to feel this way anymore. I want to fight the default settings in my mind. I want to try to explore curiosity, to explore something new.

We try to become aware of those biases. Depressed people have the bias to see themselves as worthless and to interpret new information they receive through that framework. Well, therapy is the attempt to say, I don't want to feel this way anymore. I want to fight the default settings in my mind. I want to try to explore curiosity, to explore something new.

We try to become aware of those biases. Depressed people have the bias to see themselves as worthless and to interpret new information they receive through that framework. Well, therapy is the attempt to say, I don't want to feel this way anymore. I want to fight the default settings in my mind. I want to try to explore curiosity, to explore something new.

So to say that this toxic environment that we're in corresponds with some of our biases is... is to me not the same as saying we are destined to remain in that situation.

So to say that this toxic environment that we're in corresponds with some of our biases is... is to me not the same as saying we are destined to remain in that situation.

So to say that this toxic environment that we're in corresponds with some of our biases is... is to me not the same as saying we are destined to remain in that situation.

This is a quasi-philosophical question, but from my perspective, absolutely. I mean, I think some of the threats that we learn about on social media are simply wrong. They're phantom threats. We're made to fear something that actually is not happening, made to fear a group of people who are not as dangerous as they're made out to be on social media.

This is a quasi-philosophical question, but from my perspective, absolutely. I mean, I think some of the threats that we learn about on social media are simply wrong. They're phantom threats. We're made to fear something that actually is not happening, made to fear a group of people who are not as dangerous as they're made out to be on social media.

This is a quasi-philosophical question, but from my perspective, absolutely. I mean, I think some of the threats that we learn about on social media are simply wrong. They're phantom threats. We're made to fear something that actually is not happening, made to fear a group of people who are not as dangerous as they're made out to be on social media.

Of course, I think being informed about the world around us matters to staying safe. But again, I think we can also more broadly construe what safety is.

Of course, I think being informed about the world around us matters to staying safe. But again, I think we can also more broadly construe what safety is.

Of course, I think being informed about the world around us matters to staying safe. But again, I think we can also more broadly construe what safety is.

If being on social media makes you avoidant of taking chances on people, if it makes you feel as though anybody who's different from you ideologically, for instance, is bloodthirsty and extreme, that's going to limit your life in very important ways. And you can talk about being safe in terms of safe from acute threats.

If being on social media makes you avoidant of taking chances on people, if it makes you feel as though anybody who's different from you ideologically, for instance, is bloodthirsty and extreme, that's going to limit your life in very important ways. And you can talk about being safe in terms of safe from acute threats.

If being on social media makes you avoidant of taking chances on people, if it makes you feel as though anybody who's different from you ideologically, for instance, is bloodthirsty and extreme, that's going to limit your life in very important ways. And you can talk about being safe in terms of safe from acute threats.

But as we've talked about, living a diminished and disconnected life is its own form of danger over a longer time horizon. So really, there are a lot of ways in which in the attempt to stay safe right now, we introduce ourselves to long-term danger.

But as we've talked about, living a diminished and disconnected life is its own form of danger over a longer time horizon. So really, there are a lot of ways in which in the attempt to stay safe right now, we introduce ourselves to long-term danger.

But as we've talked about, living a diminished and disconnected life is its own form of danger over a longer time horizon. So really, there are a lot of ways in which in the attempt to stay safe right now, we introduce ourselves to long-term danger.

Here's a far out example. I mean, I love this train of thought, so I'm gonna try to take it to a logical conclusion that would never actually occur in real life. But a great way to generate more accurate and hopeful skepticism, and by hopeful skepticism, I mean skepticism as we've described, a scientific mindset, a scientific perspective, and a curiosity, a hunger for information.