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Steven Pinker: A History of Violence
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The Singularity Summit 2012
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Steven Pinker: Literacy Breeds Empathy, Reduces Violence
02 min 05 secHarvard psychologist Steven Pinker links the Humanitarian Revolution, an historical decline in violence, to widespread literacy. "It's plausible," he explains, "that as people consume fiction, drama, history, and journalism, they start to inhabit the minds of people unlike themselves, which conceivably could expand their empathy and decrease their taste for cruelty."
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