Have you ever felt like people of a different political persuasion are, in some quirky way, from another planet or belong to an alien race of humans? It turns out that there might be something to that. Yaara Yeshurun has been examining how having different beliefs...
Whatever your religious affiliation, your tradition’s view on the power of speech provides an illuminating perspective for judging the spectacle of the most recent presidential debate. Christians turn to Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, emphasizing that God’s...
Traversing the centuries from the days the Buddha walked this earth to contemporary times, it’s not difficult to find examples of what can go wrong in our relations when we fail to speak with compassion or repeat lies. A few months ago, the NY Times published...
In the current political environment, the divide between us seems acutely apparent. To better understand how it’s so easy for us to see and understand important issues so very differently, we must look at the biological roots of discord—how we build our memories and...
Not only does telling a story change our brain’s functioning in some remarkable ways, but it also appears that when we tell stories, we’re changing the brain functioning of those who are listening. Uri Hasson at Princeton studied this phenomenon by using fMRI scanners...
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