Complicated Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can…

— Clay Shirky

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.

— Mile Jedinak

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

— David Myers

Group dynamics are complicated.

— Jill Zarin

“Thus, oxytocin and vasopressin facilitate bonding between parent and child and between couples.fn10 Now for something truly charming that evolution has cooked up recently.…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative…

— Warder Clyde Allee

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of…

— Daniel Goleman

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start…

— John Irving

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

— Guillaume Canet

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think…

— Kristen Bell

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

— Robert Nozick