"man is a social animal" sounds all fluffy bunnies but what it means is that there are deep structures in your brain that try to kill you if your perception of your social status is too low. in Dunbar-number-sized social groups most people could clear this bar. most now can't
true, and i'm sure it sometimes does, but that's the direction it's generally presumed to flow so, as a basic bitch contrarian, my priors discount this as a primary explanation
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We could solve this with Science. Make the experimental group think they’re lower status, see if they go crazy.
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Apparently this is Unethical so I will be doing the opposite: make the experimental group think they’re high-status and see if they stop being crazy. No one could possibly complain about this, right?
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