#116 Colin Holbrook: Threat Detection, Group Prejudice, Warfare, and Religion

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Dr. Colin Holbrook is Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He researches decision-making under contexts of threat, with particular focus on political orientation, group prejudice, and the representation of mental states.

In this episode, we talk about threat detection; the relationship between threat and fight-or-flight responses; how threat instigates group prejudice; threat in the context of politics and warfare; religion and social cohesion; and the hyperactive agency detection device.

Time Links:

00:36 How do people perceive threat?

04:38  Fight-or-flight responses          

13:04 Threat at the individual and collective levels         

17:19 In-group and out-group differences      

23:00 Threat in the context of politics and warfare      

33:25 Religion and threat salience   

45:19 Religion and social cohesion

48:51 Perceiving agency and threat salience 

53:27 Follow Dr. Holbrook’s work!  

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