When ‘I’ Becomes ‘We’ | Mina Cikara | TEDxCambridge
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- Group living has been essential for our survival since the first humans walked the Earth. Beyond just surviving, people who accurately identify, value, and cooperate with in-group members enjoy numerous material and psychological benefits. However, group life is also a source of social strife and destruction. From Israelis and Palestinians to Red Sox and Yankees fans, group identity has led to innumerous conflicts. Much of the research into this intergroup conflict has focused on group members’ perceptions of the other. However, this focus neglects that when we become part of an “us,” we change as well. Recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience indicates that individuals acting on behalf of a group will often act more ruthlessly than individuals acting alone. Better understanding how we change when we shift from “me versus you” to “us versus them” may generate new avenues for interventions among individuals and groups in conflict.
Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University and completed a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily on how group membership, competition, and prejudice disrupt the processes that allow people to see others as human and to empathize with others. She uses a wide range of tools - standard laboratory experiments, implicit and explicit behavioral measures, fMRI and psychophysiology - to examine failures of empathy, dehumanization, and misunderstanding between groups.
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Interesting talk Thanks. Helps in my understanding of radicalization.
Excellent talk, Mina!
I loved this talk, it's very eye-opening
Such an enlightening talk
you are amazing, thanks for sharing with us. I like the way that you start and finish your speech.
I love this talk!!!!!!!
Me too
Loved your talk❤ very enlightening! Well done! 0:58
This is why political party's aren't the best way. we need to do what George Washington wanted, and have no party's or groups to be affiliated to. The individual is wiser than the group.
How wise.
It's called "groupthink".
The neurosis of man form Trigant Burrows is pointing toward some reasons.....Attention attention as my neighbour aptly point out very often ☮️☯️
It's called deindividuation
I've seen this effect while working in Japanese public school; I faced an endless series of mean us vs them bullying from Japanese teachers. However, when speaking 1-on-1, they became different people. It was very cunning & dishonest, exactly what Japanese are famous for... a flexible moral fiber!
so your response to this talk is to group an entire nationality of people as cunning and dishonest 'them', rather than just leaving your observations within the scope of those individual teachers you've worked with? 🤔
@@yeujinkong It's not about a response or about nationality, it's about recognising "groupthink" behavior. How people behave in a certain group (clique, cult, culture) that has a certain group identity is different from how they behave individually. Like kind of state of hypnosis while in the group.
This has been well documented in social-psychology.
For example the Stanford university prison experiment (there have been several documentaries and movies made about that research incident, "the experiment"). There have been many other researches as well about group conformity and group pressure.
@Alex DS
I've witnessed a samilar cunning and dishonest culture in Thailand, where fraud and abuse is culturally covered up with a "face saving" fake smile.
When individually asked about their behavior in the group, the answer was "I can not refuse them".
In this part of the world (Asia), culture is group based and family based, and group pressure, and the fear of being excommunicated by a group (family/business/nationalism), is much higher than in the West.
Mina, what happened in 1992/95 in Spomenka*s home town... 3 different nationalities, 3 different religions resulted in thousands of deaths! Now, on one side of Neretva, live Catholics, on the other (East) side Muslims, *in peace*, and 3rd group is gone, killed and ethnically cleansed! Today, on catholic side, on top of the hill, there's a huge cross that can be seen from the whole area, Is pocking eyes of the East! But best of all, there's is always healthy dose of humor for what goes on in that region! *Muhamed and Hasan, Question one to another: , what do you think about the thing on hill? The other said: *That's a BIG PLUS for Bosnia and Hercegovina*!
Your point is valid but this is all fundamentals. Obviously the more people you have in a scenario the more aggressive people will be. It's easier to manager 2 egos, differences, rather than managing 6. With the need to belong and how we want to fit in or people to like us this is always going to happen. It's essentially common.
Collectivism is dehumanization
Miss Cikara you are a very attractive woman! I don't know if it helps listening and focusing on the matter though.. Actually that sounds like an old chauvinist speaking ah ah
Gaetan Frobert I think she looks a lot like Winona Ryder
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Boring