How to Disagree Better
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It feels like our world is deeply polarized. We seem to fundamentally disagree with so many people - and with those disputes comes anger and hatred. Can anything bridge these yawning divides?
It turns out that we aren’t as divided as all that. Our minds often fool us into thinking we disagree with people more than is actually true. Dr Laurie Santos and Dr Jamil Zaki look at ways we can tame this misconception and get on with people who think a little differently to us.
Jamil's book Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Do Nice Guys Really Finish Last. I'm Tim Harford, host of the Cautionary Tales |
| 0:07.5 | podcast and I'm exploring that very question. Join me for my new miniseries on the art of fairness. From New York to Tahiti will examine |
| 0:16.3 | villains undone by their villainy, monstrous self-devouring egos and accounts of the extraordinary |
| 0:22.2 | power of decency. |
| 0:23.5 | Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:28.2 | Do nice guys really finish last. I'm Tim Harford, host of the Cautionary Tales |
| 0:36.7 | podcast and I'm exploring that very question. Join me for my new mini-series on the |
| 0:42.0 | Art of Fairness from New York to Tahiti Join me for my new miniseries on the art of fairness. |
| 0:43.2 | From New York to Tahiti will examine villains |
| 0:46.1 | undone by their villainy, monstrous self-devouring egos |
| 0:49.8 | and accounts of the extraordinary power of decency. |
| 0:53.0 | Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:55.6 | or wherever you listen to podcasts. Pushkin. |
| 1:10.0 | It's no secret that politics around the world has become more divided and more toxic. |
| 1:15.1 | Here in the US, our political parties seem further apart on key issues than ever before. |
| 1:20.5 | Back in the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans reported liking people in their own party and feeling relatively neutral about folks on the other side. |
| 1:28.0 | But today those feelings are much more polarized. |
| 1:31.0 | One survey from 2020 found that Democrats and Republicans much more than |
| 1:33.7 | than the Democrats and Republicans now dislike their rivals more than they |
| 1:37.1 | like the people who share their political views. This level of |
| 1:40.6 | emotional polarization is new in American politics. |
| 1:43.9 | But it's not that surprising given, well, pretty much every screen you look at these days. |
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