Why Do Culture Wars Happen? | Michael Morris
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Welcome to Behavioral Grooves, the podcast where behavioral science meets application. I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Houlihan. Today we're thrilled to share our conversation with Michael Morris, the Chaufkin Chang professor of leadership at Columbia Business School. And Michael is one of the world's leading experts on cultural psychology and organizational behavior.
His research on how cultural Instincts Shape Human Cooperation has been published in top academic journals and his insights have influenced leaders across many Fortune 500 companies as well as in many social movements, Tim. We dove deep into his latest book, Tribal, How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together. And Kurt, I have to say, This conversation completely shifted how I think about human cooperation and cultural change.
Yeah, it was really interesting. And there were a couple things that really stood out to me, Tim. First, Michael reveals that our tribal instincts aren't just a modern social phenomena, that they're actually three unique evolutionary adaptations that have developed over the past million years or so. And he calls those instincts.
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