I’m referring to general traumatic experiences – both the ones that might more typically come to mind like witnessing a violent event and things like this, but also more “microtraumas” like getting bullied at school.
My hypothesis might be that reducing trauma could improve human co-operation and coordination. The logic might be that trauma means that when people communicate they accidentally “trigger” something below the surface in the other person, and so then the conversation becomes about something that it’s not ostensibly about, and cooperation becomes harder.
You could imagine an experiment where there are X “trauma-free” people and a varying number of people with some level of trauma doing a task that requires cooperation and coordination of all participants to solve, and then comparing the “time-to-solve” and success rates, to see how much coordination and cooperation might be improved by solving trauma.
[Question] Is trauma a potential EA cause area?
I’m referring to general traumatic experiences – both the ones that might more typically come to mind like witnessing a violent event and things like this, but also more “microtraumas” like getting bullied at school.
My hypothesis might be that reducing trauma could improve human co-operation and coordination. The logic might be that trauma means that when people communicate they accidentally “trigger” something below the surface in the other person, and so then the conversation becomes about something that it’s not ostensibly about, and cooperation becomes harder.
You could imagine an experiment where there are X “trauma-free” people and a varying number of people with some level of trauma doing a task that requires cooperation and coordination of all participants to solve, and then comparing the “time-to-solve” and success rates, to see how much coordination and cooperation might be improved by solving trauma.