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Susan Fiske's findings in "Envy Up, Scorn Down." We automatically evaluate others on two dimensions: how competent they are (to help or hurt us) and how friendly they are (friend or foe?). This is supported by sociological and neurological evidence and extends deep into our minds and our social behavior
Emotional strength of kinship ties, in- and out-groups. “Unrelated people who want to share like a family create mythologies about a common flesh and blood, a shared ancestry, and a mystical bond to a territory....The dark side of this cohesion is groupthink, a cult mentality, and myths of racial purity—the sense that o....
Pinker, Steven, "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature", Viking, 2002, 247
“people are most inclined to help a stranger when they can do so at a low cost, when the stranger is in need, and when the stranger is in a position to reciprocate.” [RAH Relevant to patient/careprovider relation]
Pinker, Steven, "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature", Viking, 2002, 255
"The concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure," wrote [economist Barbara] Wooten in Time magazine in 1956, "The significance of this question of who is sick and who is sinful cannot be laughed off as 'merely semantic.'" [Note that seeing pain as sinful (a moral lapse) conver....
Wailoo, Keith, "Pain: a political history", Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 51
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