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The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony is an excellent guide to humans’ powerful group instincts, written by psychologists Jay Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer. Our group instincts drive us to work together in groups and have underpinned all of our greatest achievements, from…
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Steven Pinker has written some cracking books on how the human mind works, as well as in defence of liberal democratic and progressive values. The most recent is titled Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (2021). What is rationality? Pinker defines it as “the ability to use knowledge to attain…
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