ProSocial World

#prosocial #patientsafety #anesthesia #surgery #nursing | Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) The case is late again! Have you had interpersonal challenges in the OR? Share your experiences in the comments below and go to the February 2026 APSF Newsletter @apsforg to find out more about #prosocial behavior! #patientsafety #anesthesia #surgery #nursing

🙌In this interesting video, @apsf.org explains how #prosocial behavior can positively influence the context of a surgery or medical procedures.

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#medicine #technology #society #healthcare #future

About the series: This series celebrates proven examples of positive change efforts, which have a strong logic for why they work and solid evidence that they work. The series also explores the obstacles to implementing these policies, despite their proven success. About this episode: Peter Gray is an emeritus professor of psychology at Boston College. He wrote the first textbook on psychology from an evolutionary perspective and was led to the study of education by the experience of his son in public school. Against this background, our conversation focuses on Common Core as an educational policy that didn't work and cultivating a positive school climate as a policy with both a strong logic and abundant empirical evidence. Resources: • Peter's website: https://www.petergray.org/ • Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn • Substack: https://petergray.substack.com/ • The LetGrow Foundation, which Peter co-founded: https://letgrow.org/ • Chapter #82 of Peter's substack, which contrasts Common Core with improving school climate and includes references to the scientific research that we discuss: https://petergray.substack.com/p/82-how-schools-can-improve-kids-mental • An article on the Regents Academy, a school for at-risk youth that I helped to design and which we discuss in detail: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027826 #education #children #learning #society Prosocial Policies that Work: Peter Gray on Childhood Education

📚Why do some education reforms fail — even with good intentions? In this conversation, Peter Gray & David Sloan Wilson explore how education works best when policy aligns with human nature.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/PcIomcA5mpk

#Education #Prosocial #Policy

In Uncertain Times, Get Curious - by Elizabeth Weingarten - Behavioral Scientist Asking better questions can act as an antidote to uncertainty—and the anxiety that comes with it.

What if the secret to lowering anxiety isn't finding "the" answer, but asking better questions? 🔍✨
🔗Read the full article here: behavioralscientist.org/in-uncertain...

#BehavioralScience #Curiosity #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #Growth

The Emotional Roots of Economic Paradigms, by Angus Armstrong Economic theories endure because they make the world feel coherent, even when inaccurate — understanding this explains why paradigm change is hard.

Why do economic theories feel more like belief systems than explanations of behavior? If economics isn’t just about numbers, what does that mean for how we understand society?

👉 www.prosocial.world/posts/emotio...

#economy #society #politics

Join our Masterclass — a 7-week interactive course exploring the Multilevel Economic Paradigm, bridging research, policy, business & civil society. 🌍

📆March 19th | Online | Free | Limited spaces

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#Economics #Prosocial #Policy #SystemsThinking #Learning

Why Does Diversity Matter in Science? Greater diversity and feminist critique has helped uncover overlooked biology and shift evolutionary theory in important ways.

For decades, biology treated males as the default — shaping what scientists studied and what they overlooked. Evolutionary biologist Malin Ah-King asks: if science affects what we see, what blind spots remain?

🔗www.prosocial.world/posts/why-does-diversity-matter-in-science

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Beliefs about genetic influences on prosocial and antisocial behavior in a U.S. sample - Matthew S. Lebowitz, Baoyi Shi, Kathryn Tabb, Paul S. Appelbaum, Linda Valeri, 2025 Genes are increasingly understood to influence behavior. Research—generally conducted among convenience samples— has suggested that genetic influences tend to b...

🔍A recent study shows that thinking moral behaviour is genetically influenced changes how we see responsibility, prosociality, and helping others.

🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625251375283

#ProsocialWorld #BehavioralScience #Psychology

Symposium 2026 - UNITY EARTH February 20–22, 2026 | Online, Global Broadcast

✨Tomorrow! Join the UNITY EARTH Symposium 2026 where our Managing Director, Jeff Genung, will be participating in a panel discussion.

📆 Feb 22 — Online

🔗 Register now: unity.earth/symposium-20...
#UnityEarth #PlanetaryConsciousness #CollectiveChange #GlobalGathering

🐒The story of Punch, a macaque rejected by his mother, has taken over the internet. In social species, belonging is communicated through behaviour, not statements.

Worth a read:
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Photo: The Mainichi

Strengthening  and Safeguarding the New Paradigm, by Michael Pirson A new economic paradigm must be an interlocking set of ideas about what people are and what organizing is for, or it will be absorbed into the old profit-first worldview.

🌱Paradigms are “interlocking” ideas that shape what we see and do. A new complexity/evolution approach could help, but it’ll get co-opted unless it’s clear that people aren’t just profit-maximizers — and that organizing should aim at dignity and flourishing.

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Next Sunday, our managing director, Jeff Genung, will be joining The UNITY EARTH Symposium.

📆Feb 22, 10:00am-12:30pm EST, 6:00pm-8:30pm EST
🔗Register now: unity.earth/symposium-20

#Evolution #Collective #Change #Symposium #Unity #GlobalChange

Learn how to design institutions, organizations, and communities that function as adaptive, cooperative systems.

✨Dennis J. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative) & David Sloan Wilson
‍ 📆Start Date: 19 March 2026 | 12 pm EST | 7 Online weekly sessions
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The perfect way to do nothing: how to embrace the art of idling We are often so busy and yet when the opportunity arises to do nothing, we can find it uncomfortable. Here’s how to lean into boredom – and unlock the imagination

This fascinating read from The Guardian explores why we find stillness so uncomfortable.

🔗https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/19/the-perfect-way-to-do-nothing-how-to-embrace-the-art-of-idling

#Wellness #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #SelfCare

🌱For this Saturday, here's an idea worth returning to: our inner attitudes shape the lives we build.

🌎On this Darwin Day, historian and author Oren Harman argues evolution isn’t just ruthless competition.

🔗Read the article: bit.ly/4amH6MT

#Darwin #DarwinDay #Evolution #EvolutionaryScience #Science #History

💡Join our upcoming course! It combines spiritual wisdom with evidence-based scientific knowledge to create meaningful transformation on individual and collective levels.

🔗https://courses.prosocial.world/course/exp-prosocial-spirit-0226
📆Feb 19th | Online | Limited Seats

"Non seulement les animaux aiment, mais ils ressentent le désir d'être aimés".

Charles Darwin

From Paradigms to Purposes: Why the Real Paradigm Shift Is 'Evolution on Purpose' A genuinely new paradigm must pair evolution and complexity with purpose-driven, testable interventions that help societies 'evolve on purpose' toward explicit values.

🔍Psychologist Steven C. Hayes argues that our global crises stem from outdated ways of thinking that shape how we see and act in the world.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/from-paradigms-to-purposes-why-the-real-paradigm-shift-is-evolution-on-purpose

#Psychology #Culture #Evolution #History

The Theory of 'Appropriate Action': The Underspecified Dimension of 'The New Paradigm' The complexity–evolution paradigm explains systems well but needs a stronger ethical and institutional framework to guide effective action.

✨The complexity–evolution paradigm explains how systems change, but it doesn’t tell us what we should do.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/the-theory-of-appropriate-action-the-underspecified-dimension-of-the-new-paradigm

#economy #politics #history #evolution

Lucy Cooke: What can animals teach us about sex and gender? What if we stopped seeing females (of every species) as passive and instead welcomed the extraordinary diversity of sexuality? Through tales of same-sex bird couples, sexually transformative fish and unexpectedly promiscuous chimps, zoologist Lucy Cooke invites us to embrace the "genderless continuum" of females in nature, ditching archaic sexual stereotypes and offering a path to better understanding our natural world -- and each other. (This conversation, hosted by TED science curator David Biello, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.)

🌿 We share this #TEDtalk where zoologist Lucy Cooke explores the “genderless continuum” in nature, reshaping how we understand life—and ourselves.

🔗 Watch here: bit.ly/3NpOsYo

#Science #Evolution #Biology #Nature #Gender #Animals

✨Feeling stretched thin? In our upcoming course, we will experience how contemplative practice + science can help us reconnect — without religion, dogma, or burnout.

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#Spirituality #Meditation #Mindfulness #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth #Coaching

Prosocial Interventions and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates associations between prosocial interventions and health outcomes as well as barriers to and facilitators of such interventions.

Acts of kindness save lives. Meta-analysis: prosocial programs (like pay-it-forward vaccines) improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities.

🔗Read the research: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Prosocial #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

Social Science Paradigms as Evolutionary Selection Environments Social science paradigms don’t just explain society — they shape it, acting as selection environments for institutions and behavior

🌱Economist Dennis Snower argues that social-science paradigms don’t just interpret reality; they shape institutions and behavior. Multilevel selection explains why paradigms rise, fall, and shift during crises.

🔗 www.prosocial.world/posts/social...

#economy #society #evolution #science

Lessons from Ostrom – and collaboration through a water scheme Collaboration only works if people have the human skills to use them under pressure, writes Lisa Sims.

🙌ProSocial World’s collaborator, Lisa Sims, draws on Elinor Ostrom’s collaboration design principles and shows how they matter in real-world water governance.

🔗Read the article: www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/less...

Evolutionary biologist, Dr. David Sloan Wilson, has assembled a team of researchers focused on understanding the social contexts in which cooperative behaviors are reinforced more than selfish behaviors. Introduction to ProSocial Spirituality, featuring ProSocial World team members: David Sloan Wilson, President Kate Sheehan-Roach, Director of ProSocial Spirituality Susan Soleil, Partnership Coordinator Jeff Genung, Managing Director In addition to ProSocial Spirituality collaborators: Will Rucker Gard Jameson Made possible by the support of the Templeton Religion Trust #spirituality #spiritualawakening #spiritualgrowth #spiritual #spiritualjourney #journey #coaching #mindfulness #meditation #prosocial ProSocial Spirituality

🌿In this video, we go over Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom's 8 Core Design Principles, evolution, and contextual behavioral science can shape a journey of both inner and outer work.

🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVAbyCGWEQ&t=105s

#spirituality #selfgrowth #growth #mindfulness #meditation

✨Donna Haraway’s 'Primate Visions' argues primatology isn’t neutral: it’s shaped by gender, race, and colonial power.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/haraway-primate-visions-gender-sexuality-primatology
#Evolution #Biology #Gender #Feminism #Diversity #Anthropology #LGTBQ #Diversity

💡 Paul shares why Becoming ProSocial focuses on practical ways to build trust and collaboration in real groups. The course starts in one week, and there are only a few seats left.

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#coaching #growth #goals

Becoming ProSocial This guided learning journey will introduce the basics of the ProSocial method as an applied change process and welcome participants into our growing global ProSocial Commons community. This course provides weekly peer-group meetings to discuss, explore and deepen the work. Participants will be supported in identifying and working on their particular collaborative needs and goals.

💬 Great group outcomes don’t happen by accident. They’re shaped by mindful listening, shared vision, and responsive action—you can explore these with Becoming ProSocial.

🔗https://courses.prosocial.world/course/becoming-prosocial-0226

Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness Fairness matters ... to both people and primates. Sharing priceless footage of capuchin monkeys responding to perceived injustice, primatologist Sarah Brosnan explores why humans and monkeys evolved to care about equality -- and emphasizes the connection between a healthy, cooperative society and everyone getting their fair share.

Primatologist Sarah Brosnan explores why humans and monkeys evolved to care about equality.
#Evolution #TEDTalks #Science #Psychology #Humanity

🔗Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/sarah_...