It's a horrible, horrible, horrible story. It's vivid; it's awful; it's exactly the kind of story which is going to be remembered, right? Obviously social psychology is huge in this stuff.
So the data about the scenario itself helps us understand what is the moral dimension that this scenario triggers. And we know from social psychology that actually, when people are faced with moral dilemmas and moral questions, these exist in a variety of flavors or dimensions.
Why? Because you're not going to learn the same lessons from both. So researchers in social psychology have studied bad marriages. And they found that in bad marriages there are a lot of arguments.
We know what some of the social forces are. The entire field of social psychology is dedicated to these phenomena. Bibb Latane and John Darley did these famous experiments-- you probably know about them-- 50 years ago.
Totally. So when I-- at some point around 2015, maybe about a decade ago, I realized that there were whole fields that seemed to be about conversation so social psychology , communication. And as a behavioral scientist trained in that world, I also realized, but nobody's actually gone to the trouble of recording people actually talking
Why? Well, first, let me just say, why compassion? Very interesting research in neuroscience and social psychology suggests that compassion is profoundly enhancing of our immune response.
And it, I think, has been of help to others. People in the neuroscience and social psychology research world, but also it's been very helpful in terms of developing training protocols. And I developed a very simple one called GRACE, which I can just share briefly here, which many clinicians--
It was in many, many fields-- literally dozens of fields. It was in economics and social psychology , but it was also in molecular biology. There's a whole field of chronobiology.
That was kind of the standard American myth of the nature of hierarchy. And if you look at the social sciences, which I was raised in, of economic theory, biological science, social psychology and the like, there was very little systematic discussion of power.
Nobody consciously recognized the mimicry, but people who went in and mimicked the interviewer were more likely to get the job than people who didn't. One of the overriding themes of social psychology is people love themselves. And if you can subtly manipulate that, you are more effective.
So I spent my career running controlled experiments. And the thing that's interesting about being a social psychologist is, all of us are kind of good at social psychology . There's no way you reach the age of being an adult human without having some understanding of how humans work.
One, I looked at about 60 years of academic research on this emotion of regret in cognitive science, in neuroscience, in social psychology , a lot of it in developmental psychology. So for 50 years or so, scientists have tried to understand this emotion, what it is, why it exists, how it operates.
But I should say, I really wouldn't categorize it as a self-help book because every recommendation you make is backed by rigorous scientific research on happiness, including your own work in the field of social psychology . Now, the science of happiness is a relatively new field that's been gaining a lot of attention in recent years.
OK, so that's all techniques we talked about for cheap restaurants. So reciprocity, in social psychology , is I do something for you, you do something back for me.
But in 1998, sorry-- 1988, 1988. Peter and I had traveled to a conference in social psychology called the Nag's Head Conference, and we were busy working on a project that we called Emotional Intelligence, at the time.
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go along with it and he did a very famous social psychology experiment called The Ash experiment now
Right. When you go throughout all of social psychology , those negative interactions have three to five times the impact on how we feel than the positives.
you'll have perceptual psychology, you'll have social psychology , et cetera.
And, in the world of cognitive psychology and social psychology , some experiments have been done to look at how we feel about different letters of the alphabet.
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Well, some of the basic ideas from classic social psychology are that when people have a sense of shared fate, and especially a sense of shared sacrifice.
So think about this Brady Bunch grid of faces that we have on a hang out and one could do with this. What do I know about if your face looks like mine from the social psychology literature? If you look more like me, you're more willing to buy something from me.
Now there are a number of fields-- there's epidemiology, social psychology ,
And the second kind of related find to that-- and this is one of the broader findings of behavioral science and social psychology .
And actually, some of my favorite recent research in social psychology is by a researcher named Lisa Neff, who is at UT Austin.
One of the scariest-- I mean, most fascinating and most terrifying-- findings in social psychology in the last 30 years
And then Cheshire on the far right, who does social psychology .
Yeah. So mts background is in psychology, in social psychology and cognitive psychology.
that, if this other person only had the right information that we had, they would come to the same conclusion as us, this bias that you call naive realism or . Yeah, yeah, yeah. So naive realism, I think, is one of the most important ideas in social psychology . So this is big, big news, big news over here.
I thought, hey, let me put the two things together, and kind of aided and abetted by the fact that I have a background in social psychology .
And in the course of my time at the library, I began to map out compassion. Because I realized that, first of all, even though neuroscience and social psychology , the research being done in these areas indicates the great benefits of compassion not only to those whom are served, but those who experience it and to society in general, but also that compassion
is this sense in which there are cultural explanations for behavior, the kinds that you might get from social psychology or from anthropology,
by this slide, those three pairs of feet. And the feet over on this side represent social psychology . Social psychology is a psychology of how people interact with each other; the
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It's a horrible, horrible, horrible story. It's vivid; it's awful; it's exactly the kind of story which is going to be remembered, right? And a lot of them never heard of any of the stuff I've talked about today, even though it's basic cognitive and social psychology .