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Our brains were designed for tribal life, so you can get along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But contemporary times have forced the world's tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of ideals along with unprecedented opportunities. As the globe shrinks, the moral lines that split us are more salient plus more puzzling. We struggle over everything from tax rules to gay matrimony to global warming, and we ask yourself where, if at all, we can find our common earth. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, mindset, and idea, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern turmoil and lights the way forwards. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot computerized settings ("family portrait," "panorama") and a manual setting. Our point-and-shoot configurations are our emotions-efficient, automated programs honed by development, culture, and personal experience. The brain's manual setting is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Point-and-shoot feelings make us public family pets, turning Me into Us. However they also make us tribal family pets, turning Us against Them. Our tribal feelings make us fight-sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words-often with life-and-death stakes. An award-winning instructor and scientist, Greene directs Harvard University's Moral Cognition Lab, which uses cutting-edge neuroscience and cognitive techniques to understand how people really make moral decisions. Combining insights from the lab with lessons from years of social technology and hundreds of years of philosophy, the great question of Moral Tribes is this: How do we get along with Them when what they need feels so incorrect to Us? In the long run, Greene offers a couple of maxims for navigating the present day moral terrain, a practical highway map for handling problems and living better lives. Moral Tribes shows us when to trust our intuition, when to reason, and how the right type of reasoning can move us forwards. A major success from a increasing star in a fresh methodical field, Moral Tribes will refashion your deepest values about how precisely moral thinking works and exactly how it could work better.