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dyadic relationships (with a chief focus on romantic partners) and social networks (how well embedded you are in your social community).

we are better at seeking support — and better at giving it.

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, evaluates emotional-literacy programs for their grounding in research-based evidence, and has approved several dozen as “evidence-based.” It

Again, it seems that being able to identify that someone comes from the same small community as you is more important than anything else.

Tajfel découvrit que ses sujets affichaient une nette préférence pour les membres de leur propre groupe, refusant d’adopter une stratégie de distribution égalitaire, et récompensant de manière disproportionnée ceux à qui ils s’identifiaient désormais. D’autres chercheurs ont réparti des individus dans différents groupes selon des stratégies encore

The central significance of mentalising for our social world emphasises the importance of being able to see how our actions might affect someone else, or being able to see why a friend might have acted in the way they did and so make allowances for their behaviour rather than immediately cutting them off in a fit of high dudgeon.

Exhibit B: Shared intentionality generates moral matrices. The Rubicon crossing that let our ancestors function so well in their groups was the emergence of the uniquely human ability to share intentions and other mental representations. This ability enabled early humans to collaborate, divide labor, and develop shared norms for judging each other’