How to fight prejudice with Betsy Levy Paluck

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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How can we reduce hostility between people and groups? Social psychologist Betsy Levy Paluck has done groundbreaking work on an approach to fighting prejudice that's faster than trying to change institutions and more feasible than trying to change individuals. Betsy and Adam explore the origins of animosity, discuss her experiments in Rwanda and in schools, and unpack strategies for bridging our divides.

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0:25.1	This whole idea of how to think about prejudice is that that's what we're doing all the
0:30.5	time, is we are scanning our environment to understand you know is this
0:34.7	okay to say here will this get a laugh will this you know be approved
0:40.3	hey everyone it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the
0:45.6	science of what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective. I'm an
0:49.3	organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new
0:54.4	thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:59.7	My guest today is Betsy Levy-Palak.
1:02.3	She's a social psychologist at Princeton and one of the world's
1:04.9	preeminent experts on fighting prejudice. Betsy's won a MacArthur Genius Grant for her groundbreaking
1:10.5	experiments on promoting reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda,
1:15.0	and on reducing bullying in schools.
1:17.0	I want to change the thing that's going to change your behavior.
1:20.0	I want to change the thing that is going to reduce discrimination, that is people
1:25.2	acting differently toward one another.
1:27.0	Get ready to rethink your understanding of how to fight bias.
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