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" ... Part way through the book you are invited to complete a questionnaire that helps you rate your organization’s “humor climate” as positive (or socially supportive), negative (or socially demeaning), outgroup (targeting outsiders) or reflecting “supervisor support.” The questionnaire is part of a journey that employs humor to provide a road map of humor, and its effects in the workplace. ... "
" ... Someone who genuinely believed in their heart that the Rogue accounts were 100% all government workers “gone rogue” and that anything they might do to break the law was acceptable in the service of getting their voices heard, might never bother to glimpse at articles on the left side or middle of the emotional graph. However, by avoiding labeling their beliefs as “disputed” or forcefully confronting them with alternative views, it is more likely that they might at least take a second to see what those from the other side are saying. In short, by avoiding labeling their beliefs as “disputed” or offering judgement and instead treating coverage in the purely clinical terms of “here’s what everyone is saying” you engage people’s curiosity. In much the same way that the Drudge Report frequently links to liberal news articles and the Huffington Post frequently links to conservative news articles, you can create pathways that expose people to opposing views, even if only to criticize them (which in turn increases their visibility). By creating an environment in which a user sees a post as an expression of a broader conversation rather than a simplistic label of “disputed” or not, it reduces the “outgroup” narrative and backfire defense. ... "
" ... While building self-awareness is a noble first step, that alone is not enough. In order to unlearn racial biases and apathetic tendencies, people have to develop new ways of thinking about these issues. They have to learn about and listen to the perspectives of outgroup members, which, in this case, are Black people and people of color. ... "
" ... While similarities make us feel comfortable, differences make us a little wary. When we see people as part of an outgroup, we are less likely to trust and more likely to judge any negative act as typical of their character and to attribute any positive actions as “the exceptional case.” ... "
" ... “However, there has to be more to it than just this. For a long time I wondered if the outgroup status of cyclists was compounded by two other known social psychological factors: norms and majority vs. minority groups. Not only are cyclists an outgroup, they’re also a minority outgroup. Moreover, they are engaging in an activity that is deemed slightly inappropriate in a culture that views driving as normative and desirable and, arguably, views cycling as anti-conventional and possibly even infantile. ... "