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Why Your Brain Hates Other People - Nautilus

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A s a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote about its filming: At lunchtime, the people playing chimps and those playing gorillas ate in separate groups. It’s been said, “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.” In reality, there’s lots more of the former. And it can be vastly consequential when people are divided into Us and Them, ingroup and outgroup, “the people” (i.e., our kind) and the Others. The core of Us/Them-ing is emotional and automatic. Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minut

Why Your Brain Hates Other People - Nautilus Skip to Content Advertisement Psychology Why Your Brain Hates Other People And how to make it think differently. RS By Robert Sapolsky 3:46 PM CDT on June 16, 2017 Share on Facebook Share on X (formerly Twitter) Share on Reddit Share on Email Share on Bluesky Illustration by Ignacio Serrano A s a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes . As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered an anecdote about its filming: At lunchtime, the people playing chimps and those playing gorillas ate in separate groups. Featured Vide

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