The Importance Of Social Interaction To Train Our Empathy

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]When you speak with other people, everybody has slightly different views on the world or their frames of of of views of the world and other people.

[00:00:07]But, the more you speak with people, the more you moderate your own views. You generate sense of empathy necessarily, and you find that your views need to be moderated because not everybody thinks the same way.

[00:00:17]If we are less and less social, we eat by ourselves or with our phones in our hand rather than with others around the table, and this is clear in the data, then it's also one of the reasons why we're polarizing in terms of opinions.

[00:00:29]It's because we're no longer moderating our views very much and are stuck in our echo chambers. And so, the result of which is more polarized political behavior.