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Why matching a stranger’s shirt can build trust

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Tribalism requires shockingly little actual effort to deeply activate in the human mind. In-group favoritism reveals that we will instantly assign positive moral attributes, trust, and even financial leniency to absolutely anyone who shares even the most utterly meaningless, arbitrary characteristic with us.

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