We primates are social mammals who have an incredibly strong propensity towards making us/them divisions in our head and liking the us more than the them. Our brains instantly recognize the other, and the xenophobia of our subconscious fires up the fear in our amygdyla.
Click above to listen to part 4 of Race and COVID, featuring Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and author of “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.”
Race and COVID:
Part 1: Marcella Nunez Smith / Racial Disparity
Part 2: Utibe Essien / Racial Data
Part 3: Nina Jablonski / Skin Color
Part 4: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
Part 5: Harold Frazier / COVID checkpoint
