Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry
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Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry
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#2This reminds me of Girard's idea that Christianity (and others I'm sure) was effective because it showed things from the victim's point of view. I'm not making the claim that it fixed everything, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
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#3> The findings raise the possibility that one day treatments that disrupt the reward of intergroup aggression might help to reduce the costly and persistent human phenomenon of violence toward other groups
A little G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate should clear that right up!
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#4Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things...
The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically correct culture, an abundance of blind spots, & a narrow path of evolution specifically tailored to the group's worldview. Group "whips" are given positions of power to mete out punishment against those who cross lines defined by group & interpreted by the "whip".
If one sees all models as being false, the teleological fate of the OP's group feedback loop unchecked is group delusion, irrelevance, harming a perennial ever changing subgroup of outlier individuals, & eventual collapse. The perennial ever changing subgroup of outliers individuals is necessary to feed the base emotional reward circuitry of the "in group", a necessary sacrifice to cohere the "in group", feeding the group's evolutionary descent...
Perceived morality is important for the "whip". There's always a statement of alibi & justification while the "whip" is punishing others. "For the greater good" is often an alibi to justify the emotional reward circuitry "hit" of those afflicted with these addictions
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#5> The findings raise the possibility that one day treatments that disrupt the reward of intergroup aggression might help to reduce the costly and persistent human phenomenon of violence toward other groups A little G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate should clear that right up!
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Re: Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry
#6This reminds me of Girard's idea that Christianity (and others I'm sure) was effective because it showed things from the victim's point of view. I'm not making the claim that it fixed everything, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
I dont see how it fixed anything related to harming the outgroup when popular interpretations and outcomes involved massive harming of outgroups
It seems the same behaviors exist in the absence and presence of that religion
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#7The Germans even have a word for it:
Schadenfreude
It comes from envy, the second deepest level in Dante’s Inferno.
Dante’s cure for envy was sewing the eyes shut.
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#8> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university.
Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university.
College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs. This study feels like the authors tried to simulate a competitive sports program as closely as they could get away with in their lab environment and then tried to spin it as a profound observation about humanity in general.
This really just reads like “young male college students still enjoy competing against their rival university”
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#9> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university. Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university. College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs.…
>College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity.
This was not my experience in undergrad, literally at all. No idea where this comes from
Re: Harming the ‘outgroup’ linked to elevated activity in the brain reward circuitry
#10Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things... The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically co…
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