The Social Leap

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Media Literacy Toolkit

Faculti's Media Literacy Toolkit helps viewers critically engage with academic insights by analyzing the research context, identifying perspectives, and encouraging thoughtful evaluation.

Critical Questions to Consider

  • What assumptions does the research make?
  • Are there alternative perspectives not explored?
  • What are the limitations of the research method?

Bias and Perspective Awareness

This research comes from . Reflect on how the institution's academic focus and research partnerships may shape the questions being explored.

In The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out this revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today. From the mundane, such as why we exaggerate, to the surprising, such as why we believe our own lies and why fame and fortune are as likely to bring misery as happiness, the implications are far reaching and extraordinary.

Image courtesy of William Von Hippel

Image courtesy of interviewee. September 2, 2020

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