Dan Baxter

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To understand how education can genuinely overcome prejudice, it is helpful to take another look at the neurological correlates of prejudice and what happens in the brain as we learn more about an oppressed group. Earlier, we mentioned how prejudice is a result of neural pathways that are hardwired into the human brain—in a sense we come into the world equipped with a built-in predisposition for prejudice. As we’ve discussed, this is a very old feature of normal brain function, calling upon the older, more primitive parts of the brain—such as the limbic system, and that rascal the amygdala, ...more
The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World
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