Sana Khadar
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2,999 appearances
51 recordings
5 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 14 Aug
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But their ideas of what causes the most harm and who is most vulnerable, that's what differs, based on personal politics, religion, culture, life experience, all kinds of things.
The problem is, there are a few factors that often cloud our ability to grasp this.
One is our tendency to engage in something called moral typecasting.
Yeah.
Not all situations are quite so clear cut.
In fact, many of the conflicts we face are way more complex.
This kind of dynamic has been observed in all kinds of intergroup conflicts, from Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda to Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland to Israel and Palestine.
And how do we bust through that inclination?
How do we move past that quirk of our psychology?
Kurt has some more specific advice as well on how you can go about talking with someone you disagree with productively.
Right.
Right.
This is why we lead everything with a story.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This isn't just Kurt's opinion, it's what research from his lab has found across several studies.
And let me just give you one example.
So in one study, they would have a researcher grab two passerbys on the university campus and raise the topic of gun control with these two people.
Now, one of these people would be a random, and the other would actually be a research assistant, someone who was in on the study.
And whatever the random person thought about gun control, the assistant would take the opposing view.
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