Michael Morris

It's your basic biases in making sense of the world, making sense of ambiguous events. You know, cultures have different biases. And when you are around an audience from one of your cultures, you start thinking with that worldview. And when you're around people from another one, so when I'm around my fellow professors, I'm thinking in terms of data.

I'm thinking in terms of economic theory, that kind of thing. When I go to my hometown and I'm with my buddies in a dive bar, I'm thinking in terms of different templates, different scripts, ones that help me bond with them and help me be understood by them, but that wouldn't work as well with my colleagues at Columbia.

I'm thinking in terms of economic theory, that kind of thing. When I go to my hometown and I'm with my buddies in a dive bar, I'm thinking in terms of different templates, different scripts, ones that help me bond with them and help me be understood by them, but that wouldn't work as well with my colleagues at Columbia.

I'm thinking in terms of economic theory, that kind of thing. When I go to my hometown and I'm with my buddies in a dive bar, I'm thinking in terms of different templates, different scripts, ones that help me bond with them and help me be understood by them, but that wouldn't work as well with my colleagues at Columbia.

So it's audiences, the tribes that we're around that trigger those peer instincts. And then for hero instincts, the impulses to contribute, the impulses to sacrifice and do something exemplary for the group, Some very potent triggers of that are cultural symbols. So for the longest time, armies would follow a national flag into battle. Crusaders followed the cross. They took the cross.

So it's audiences, the tribes that we're around that trigger those peer instincts. And then for hero instincts, the impulses to contribute, the impulses to sacrifice and do something exemplary for the group, Some very potent triggers of that are cultural symbols. So for the longest time, armies would follow a national flag into battle. Crusaders followed the cross. They took the cross.

So it's audiences, the tribes that we're around that trigger those peer instincts. And then for hero instincts, the impulses to contribute, the impulses to sacrifice and do something exemplary for the group, Some very potent triggers of that are cultural symbols. So for the longest time, armies would follow a national flag into battle. Crusaders followed the cross. They took the cross.

Sports teams, the mascot runs out on the field and people go crazy.

Sports teams, the mascot runs out on the field and people go crazy.

Sports teams, the mascot runs out on the field and people go crazy.

What's that? Would an anthem be a song that they come out to? Exactly, an anthem. Whether it's a national anthem or whether the fans will chant a song in the stadium. So it's a kind of set of images or a set of words or...

What's that? Would an anthem be a song that they come out to? Exactly, an anthem. Whether it's a national anthem or whether the fans will chant a song in the stadium. So it's a kind of set of images or a set of words or...

What's that? Would an anthem be a song that they come out to? Exactly, an anthem. Whether it's a national anthem or whether the fans will chant a song in the stadium. So it's a kind of set of images or a set of words or...

You know, phrases like, you know, in the United States, if you say all men are created equal, you know, you trigger you trigger a certain political creed, you know, which is why Martin Luther King, you know, quoted the Declaration of Independence when he was trying to build a broad coalition for civil rights. And so these symbols, these cultural icons are potent triggers of hero instincts.

You know, phrases like, you know, in the United States, if you say all men are created equal, you know, you trigger you trigger a certain political creed, you know, which is why Martin Luther King, you know, quoted the Declaration of Independence when he was trying to build a broad coalition for civil rights. And so these symbols, these cultural icons are potent triggers of hero instincts.

You know, phrases like, you know, in the United States, if you say all men are created equal, you know, you trigger you trigger a certain political creed, you know, which is why Martin Luther King, you know, quoted the Declaration of Independence when he was trying to build a broad coalition for civil rights. And so these symbols, these cultural icons are potent triggers of hero instincts.

If you want to get people to be pro-social, to take risks, to make sacrifices, surround them with the symbols of their tribe. And then the one that is maybe least obvious is

If you want to get people to be pro-social, to take risks, to make sacrifices, surround them with the symbols of their tribe. And then the one that is maybe least obvious is

If you want to get people to be pro-social, to take risks, to make sacrifices, surround them with the symbols of their tribe. And then the one that is maybe least obvious is

is the ancestor instinct what is it that causes people to start thinking in terms of tradition and letting tradition guide them uh one of the kinds of uh cultural cues that is most important is ceremonies so ceremonies are public events that involve symbols but that often involve synchronous movement