{"id":58371,"date":"2019-06-06T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58371"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:46","slug":"dwivedi-from-sports-to-politics-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/dwivedi-from-sports-to-politics-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism\/","title":{"rendered":"DWIVEDI: From sports to politics, our brains are wired for tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University\u00a0Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Veena Dwivedi wrote a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/from-the-penalty-box-to-the-ballot-box-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism-117089?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%206%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%206%202019+CID_ac528b94b5422adb95f36ced98596113&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=ur%20neural%20hardware%20responds%20differently%20when%20we%20perceive%20people%20to%20be%20on%20our%20team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published Thursday, June 6 in <em>The Conversation <\/em><\/a>about the way people act when they believe they&#8217;re part of a &#8216;team.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dwivedi writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Our neural hardware responds differently when we perceive people to be on \u201cour team\u201d (in-group membership). This hard-wiring allows for positive biases for members of our group, helping them, and us, survive \u2014 a clear evolutionary advantage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My father, who came to Canada from India, loved watching hockey. Hockey Night in Canada was always on TV, whether we were home on a Saturday night or at someone\u2019s house for dinner. His big jump \u2014 \u201cSCORE!\u201d \u2014 was a highlight. His contagious exuberance about the game gave life to us all. So you could say rooting for the Habs is a great memory that I\u2019m hanging on to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our limbic system \u2014 our \u201cemotional brain\u201d \u2014 contains the hippocampus, the neural structure responsible for our memory. Those childhood connections between pleasure and pride are deep-seated in my identity. And those memories are not just about being a Montrealer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know it makes no logical sense to care about the Habs, 35 years after those Cup parades. But because I know which part of my brain cares about the Habs, I can rise above my limbic system and use my pre-frontal cortex to reflect about what I\u2019m actually doing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/from-the-penalty-box-to-the-ballot-box-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism-117089?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%206%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%206%202019+CID_ac528b94b5422adb95f36ced98596113&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=ur%20neural%20hardware%20responds%20differently%20when%20we%20perceive%20people%20to%20be%20on%20our%20team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University\u00a0Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Veena Dwivedi wrote a piece published Thursday, June 6 in The Conversation about the way people act when they believe they&#8217;re part of a &#8216;team.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,41,4],"tags":[3130,2534,64,29,3492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58373,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58371\/revisions\/58373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}