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The Power of Us
- Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
- De: Jay J. Van Bavel PhD, Dominic J. Packer PhD
- Narrado por: Jay J. Van Bavel PhD, Dominic J. Packer PhD, Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior - and how these shared identities can inspire both personal change and social movements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading
- De Andre Vlok en 09-18-23
- The Power of Us
- Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
- De: Jay J. Van Bavel PhD, Dominic J. Packer PhD
- Narrado por: Jay J. Van Bavel PhD, Dominic J. Packer PhD, Terrence Kidd
Really engaging & interesting book about groups!
Revisado: 09-16-21
Loved this book -- it was a super engaging book about the good and bad side of our group minds. My absolute favorite chapters were the ones about politics and fake news (the dark side of identity), as well as the final chapter about how we can leverage our groupish behavior to solve social problems. Highly recommended!
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The War for Kindness
- Building Empathy in a Fractured World
- De: Jamil Zaki
- Narrado por: Jamil Zaki
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
Empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even 30 years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States was suffering from an “empathy deficit.” Since then, things seem to have only gotten worse. In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait - something we’re born with or not - but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to like it.
- De Brad Mouritsen en 10-23-21
- The War for Kindness
- Building Empathy in a Fractured World
- De: Jamil Zaki
- Narrado por: Jamil Zaki
Inspiring, engaging, thoughtful
Revisado: 06-07-19
Loved this book! It's an easy-to-read, engaging, and thoughtful description of the latest psychological research on empathy alongside powerful stories of empathy in the real-world. Dr. Zaki has a very engaging writing style -- you can tell he was once a fiction writer, he uses a lot of evocative figurative language, and many of his stories read like sections from a novel. He's also a great scientist, who cites some of the most interesting research out there on empathy. He presents an interesting case for the idea that empathy is a skill that can grow through effort, and that even just believing that empathy is a skill can encourage us to empathize more when it is most difficult. He talks about how various things, like the arts, virtual reality, or contact with other groups can be used to help grow our empathy, and how we can leverage these tools to build empathy in a divided world.
I also loved Paul Bloom's "Against Empathy," and I'd recommend reading these two alongside each other. Bloom reviews some of the darker sides of empathy -- it's innumerate, biased toward our in-group, and having too much empathy toward our own groups can even encourage hate toward other groups. Zaki presents a more hopeful message. While he indeed covers some of the darker sides of empathy (he has a chapter on "compassion fatigue," and at times mentions Bloom's arguments in the book) Zaki's "mobilist" account of empathy, or belief that we can up-regulate or down-regulate our empathy to best fit the situation, is a potential solution to some of these darker sides of empathy. Would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the psychology of empathy, or anyone who is simply interested in building a kinder world in divided times.
Also, Dr. Zaki narrates the book himself, and does a great job! Great to hear his words in his voice.
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