Jay J. Van Bavel

researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2520-0442

  1. We are the descendants of people who managed to fit in. And after generation and generation of generation of people who managed to do that, we are groupish creatures.
    Jay Van Bavel · Hidden Brain · You Are Not Ordinary · 2026-07-27
  2. This is one of the most important findings in all of psychology, that a flip of a coin changes our identities and radically changes how we see and how we treat other people in really deep, profound ways.
    Jay Van Bavel · Hidden Brain · You Are Not Ordinary · 2026-07-27
  3. The classic term for this is called the narcissism of small differences.
    Jay Van Bavel · Hidden Brain · You Are Not Ordinary · 2026-07-27