A person's emotional stability is fundamentally tied to their position in a social hierarchy and their resulting social identity.

“how is your emotional stability tied up with your social identity that's a really important question and and i i think it might be the central question that i've been pursuing my entire my as long as i've been able to think intellectually”

Groups utilize storytelling to foster tribal preferences by defining shared identities, values, and status hierarchies that bind members together.

“We still collect into these groups that are defined by the stories they tell of the world and those stories infect us. They influence us.”