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Social psychologist Dannagal G. Young breaks down the link between our psychology and politics, showing how personality types largely fall into people who prioritize openness and flexibility (liberals) and those who prefer order and certainty (conservatives). Hear why both sets of traits are crucial to any society — and how our differences are being dangerously exploited to divide us. What if things weren't that way?
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I always thought the claps at the start were real.
Nope, it’s just raining.
Me too. I feel betrayed.
What makes you believe it is not real? As you watched it on Youtube it must be a recording, obviously, so that can not be the reason you believe it is not real.
xD
Fake News …
i would like to read that book “Dirty Politics” behind you..
anyway thanks maam.
What an amazing talk! very neutral and interesting 10/10!!
Best Ted talk in a while.
Today’s media are determined to eliminate *context* & report only sound bite rage bait that ensures more clicks.
Thank you for this! We need more rational approaches to our political divide like theses.
I would like to appreciate this talk a lot lot lot.
Such an important message to share. Thank you!
Watch the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” to get a more in depth view of how social media algorithms play with our thought processes. What she mentioned about the media tearing up the society is even more true and worse when it comes to Social Media. Give it a watch. You won’t regret it!
You really won’t regret it. I actually don’t use instagram anymore because of that movie.
Thanks for that recommendation.
Well things have improved.
When I was in school in the early 80s, academics used to evoke Freud and toilet training to explain the difference between Left and Right.
“My mind is made up. Don’t confuse me with the facts.”
–R. S. Durstine, 1945
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Issac Asimov
One word – karen
The lily wite rite is all about their fee fees. Luv how this video demonizes the media instead of moronity. Or the capitalist fat cats who are REALLY invested in creating the divide.
@U.S.S. Scambalam : She says the media because that is the new weapon of choice for the wealthy elite to further divide and control us. Can you imagine what would happen if we all simply recognized that we all have the same oppressors?
The wealthy elite have very very good reason to fear us coming together.
@Max Johnson : It’s a great quote. What exactly do you find so offensive about it?
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
That phenomenon has multiplied many times over since then too.
The world needs to watch this video!
Gospel. It was wisely spoken many a moon ago… “United we stand, divided we fall.” It isn’t a difficult concept.
Differences are inevitable, yet tolerance seems to be an animal driven into extinction.
We must find a balance, or be doomed to stew in our own ineptitude to compromise.
Sounds like you’re saying corporate media is the enemy of the people
I love thinking for thinking’s sake. I love nuance, creativity, and I’m comfortable with ambiguity. But I consider myself a moderate, right of center, because while I agree with the sentiment of my bleeding heart liberal friends and am just as open regarding social issues, I don’t think the policies that the left promotes actually lead to the conclusions they want. I respect their hearts and intentions, but I disagree with most policy positions. Almost all of my friends are liberal atheists, and I’m the only moderately conservative Christian in the group. That being said, I’m a liberal among Christians on the right.
I love abstract art, performing arts, and philosophy, and I care about public policy and my fellow man. I just don’t think the policy positions of democrats lead to the intended consequences.
Still I make decisions quickly and efficiently, guided by my intuition and emotion. I don’t fit into these categories…
I’m not angry at the other side. I see them, and I love them, but I can see them and love them without agreeing with them or some of the us-versus-them behavior on both sides. I think we need to rise above that. I want to live in a world where we can disagree with others on public policy and still trust in our mutual good intentions, and use our diverse perspectives to craft better solutions together.
Thank you for pointing out the differences, but please be careful about the generalizations of the groups.
Mood. I personally wish we should make little policy experiments for the left and right.
States would do this job, but people refuse to look at the data from them, and the federal government influences things…
Where to start.
The simplistic political dichotomy of liberal vs conservative is an incorrect schema of political thought. So much political psychology is bunk, because it starts with this really bad premise and ignorance of political history and political philosophy in general.
Open-mindedness (tolerance for ambiguity, uncertainty, etc) has a correlation with left-wing views, but this doesn’t mean thinking the world is “safe and good”, nor does it mean “accepting threats”. Rather, there are more rational assessments of threats. Take ‘climate change’ — this is probably the largest threat to civilisation today, yet it’s generally right-wingers who don’t take it seriously. Irrational, imagined threats — yeah, there’s plenty of those on the right (anti-vaccines, Qanon, Great Displacement Theory, etc)
I don’t know how “safe and good” is used or defined here, but ‘Just-world thinking’ correlates with right-wing views and associated traits (conscientiousness, conventionalism, traditionalism, authoritarianism), and systemic critiques tend to come from the left. Individualistic critiques, that burden individuals with moral responsibility for their state of affairs, and immunise broader systems and society from critique, come from conservatism.
And then there’s this naive relativism, that there’s nothing inherently pathological or dysfunctional with certain traits and associated political views. It’s just different people being exploited by elites. I suppose it’s just a coincidence that conservatism (and the associated psychological traits) is more common in sparse rural areas where there’s less exchange of ideas and a less educated population.
I remember when mutual respect and civil debate were the norm.
When facts and responsibility mattered.
When we all could afford a home.
Most people just want peace and prosperity. If we worked as a team, we could all have it too.
Oh man, all those examples of “security” are so sad.
1) The U.S. has no defensive army, they have an aggressive terrorist force that is .. well, terrorizing the planet. It’s a legitimate thing in other places though, like e.g. Iran, who is under active threat by .. the U.S.
2) The banking system is why we’re all so deeply fucked and the world is so skewed. They don’t actually provide security, but they’ve managed to convince everyone that they do. Instead they provide designed instability that regularly stomps on the poor and elevates the rich to even greater heights, and enslaves entire nation states to national debt that is impossible to ever pay back to the privately owned central banks.
3) The U.S. “democratic” (the U.S. doesn’t have a democracy) “jury duty” is run with such broken systems that it is impossible to get a “fair trial” – you instead get racist witch trials and basically whatever the prosecutors want. It’s a sickening travesty.
That pretty much sums it up. :/
Agreed. The ideals of security are good, but the way it’s being handled right now is just bad.