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Perceptions, memories, fears, hopes and wants are all blended by your mind to create a map of reality. One of the most important parts of that map is identity: your sense of who belongs where, in a world made up of races, ethnic groups, nations, religions, cultures, political parties, and countless other categories of person.
But how does the mind come up with these labels? How does it sort their overlapping claims -- the demands of being, at the same time, for instance, a Muslim, an American, a soccer mom'' and a Democrat? How does it decide which labels are for fun, like
Red Sox fan,'' and which labels are serious (like
Red State voter''). Why can the same religious or political identity mean life or death in one place, but count for little in another? And, most of all, why do people the world over care so much about these groupings? Why are we willing to kill, or to die, for a nation, a religion, or a football team?
In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how 21st-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Us and Them links neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology and other fields to show how recent research has altered our understanding of humanity's tribal mind.'' From the medical effects of stress (which link tribal feelings to hormone levels and risk of heart attacks) to the rhetoric of politics (where the same few images have been used across centuries to trigger
Us-versus-Them'' responses), our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is both surprisingly important and surprisingly misunderstood.
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Psychology, Prejudices, Group identity, Social psychology, Social groups, Groupes sociaux, Memorial bookplates, Psychologie sociale, Identite collective, Gruppenidentitat, Whitman College, Prejuges, Class of 1942, Sozialpsychologie, Sociology, philosophy, Groepen (sociologie), Vooroordelen, Buitenstaanders, Identificatie (psychologie)Showing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Us and them: the science of identity
2008, University of Chicago Press
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Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
January 2006, Hutchinson
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Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
January 2006, Hutchinson
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Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
2006, Penguin Random House
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Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
October 24, 2005, Little, Brown and Company
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Us and them: understanding your tribal mind
2005, Little, Brown and Co.
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Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
January 2005, Little Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Co.
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