Jay Van Bavel
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271 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Suddenly they're motivated to cooperate and try to accomplish something that's really important to all of them.
And so climate change is a great example of that.
It motivates and inspires all kinds of people from around the world to care about a real important issue.
Yes.
One of the most powerful ways to bind people together is a shared experience that requires them to support one another.
And so this can happen under threat when you feel like you're being your group is being attacked and it can happen under a disaster traumatic experience like the one that happened in Miami.
And this is part of, again, human nature.
We tend to think of humans as having this reaction to stress as fight or flight.
But research has found that we also engage in what's called tending and befriending.
That under stress, two of the most powerful ways of coping are to work together and build support networks and relationships and tending to one another to help one another get through it.
Yeah.
And I've actually heard that people in the military, why they're willing to throw themselves on a grenade or jump out of a trench and defend their...
fellow military members is not necessarily even because they care about the belief system of their country, but they're there to defend the immediate group of people who are in the trenches with them.
Their bonds are incredibly well connected and powerful.
And the military does lots of things like marching and chanting in unison, as well as their experiences in war that bind them together.
Yes.
One of a core part of any group is having a shared sense of reality.
And so sometimes we rally around a shared experience.
A part of it is because other people from the outside might not understand what it's like to go through that and experience it and suffer through it.
The other thing that groups do is create a shared sense of reality.
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