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Published · transcript-backedMichele Gelfand: belief
12 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
“I think that there are certain threats like violence that have been dramatically reduced, but there’s other collective threats that we have to be mindful of.”
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- Michele Gelfand
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- 12 Sept 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Is Steven Pinker correct that human progress is improving basic culture basically all the time? [laughs] I agree with Steven a lot on how much we’ve come in terms of threat, if you compare hundreds of years ago, the kinds of things we experience. I disagree with him, though, in the sense that I think we have to be mindful of looming threats, things like climate change. I think that there are certain threats like violence that have been dramatically reduced, but there’s other collective threats that we have to be mindful of. Are cultures in general becoming tighter or looser over time?…
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