Was the Barista Express working?

What happens next? Will you fund the winner?

I wonder whether this is true for all or at least the majority of contexts. Do most people think more favorably of Turkish, Chinese, Greek, or Canadian people than of their respective governments?

Using heart rate data to measure emotional synchrony, we show how shared rituals involving chants, flares, and anticipation—bind people emotionally.
Even the team bus driver synced with the crowd.
This isn't just sports. It’s collective effervescence!
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Can you explain the grounds for this objection, Rohan? In fields like anthropology, including key informants as participants is becoming increasingly common. Why is that problematic?

But critically, our results introduce a key nuance to these models, which highlights a self-directed function where the experience of discomfort serves not only as a public display but also as an internal self-signal of devotion, reinforcing moral alignment with the ingroup.

This aligns with parochial altruism models positing that altruism and intergroup bias co-evolve to promote within-group cooperation and between-group competition, and evolutionary theories suggesting that effortful ritual acts function as costly signals of commitment to shared beliefs or identities

The more discomfort people experienced, the more they gave to an ingroup (Catholic) charity compared to a neutral one (Red Cross). and this effect was stronger for locals, and those identifying more strongly as Catholics.

As 250,000 gathered in the Vatican to pay their respects, they had to endure queues of up to 8 hours under the hot sun, with limited access to shade, rest, water, and sanitation. After assessing how much discomfort they experienced, we looked at charitable giving to two causes

This, of course, is a straw man argument that no one actually makes. A much more pertinent question is, what if most people are biased in subtle but important ways, from the way they see themselves to the way their memory works?