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  • Dec 27, 2024 | wired.jp | Harvey Whitehouse

    世界中のビジョナリーや起業家、ビッグシンカーがキーワードを掲げ、2025年の最重要パラダイムを読み解く恒例の総力特集「THE WORLD IN 2025」。オックスフォード大学の社会人類学教授ハーべイ・ホワイトハウスは、フィルターバブルがますます強固になる時代において、「人の心のメカニズム」を理解することの大切さを強調する。 今回の予想は、わたしたちがオックスフォード大学で長年にわたって積み重ねてきた研究に基づいている。どんな理由であれば人は自らが所属する集団のために自発的に命をかけて戦うのか、という研究を、わたしは同僚たちと続けてきたのだ。 この研究では多種多様なグループについてのデータを集めるために、インタビューや包括的な調査、心理学実験など、多くの手法を使った。調査対象は、例えば部族の戦士、武装勢力、テロリスト、近代的な兵士、宗教的原理主義者、暴力的なサッカーファンなど多岐にわたっている。研究でわかったのは、人生を変えるような体験や集団への所属を決定づけるような体験が、個々人のアイデンティティを「融合」することだった。...

  • Dec 9, 2024 | nautil.us | Harvey Whitehouse

    In the spring of 1987, I stooped over the desk in my shared student office in Cambridge, England, running my finger across a map of Papua New Guinea and squinting at the tiny typescript. I was trying to establish the location of a cluster of tribes in the rainforest known as the Baining. Only one of those tribes was known to anthropology; the others were a mystery.

  • Aug 22, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Harvey Whitehouse

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  • Aug 22, 2024 | bigthink.com | Harvey Whitehouse

    A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Excerpted from INHERITANCE: THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD by Harvey Whitehouse, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. If asked what the most important social consequences of religion are, many people would say it is that religious beliefs make us act more morally.

  • Jul 18, 2024 | nautil.us | Harvey Whitehouse

    Running along the outer perimeter of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is a railway line. From a lion’s perspective, the railway line is just a strange feature of the landscape—two lines of shiny metal whose occasional vibrations lead to a thunderous stampede of cube-shaped animals on spinning metal feet that appear and vanish, leaving behind only a faint scent of fossil fuels and human bodies. But when there are no trains around, there is nothing to fear from the steely tracks.

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