At a more complex level, mental illness and criminality are woven from complicated genetic, social mentality and cultural/social interactions. So on a simple level, our irritation with each other will raise our stress and increase our vulnerability to a range of health problems and to social discord, while our kindness to each other will lower our stress and impact positively on our well-being and increase our social safeness. “We have to think beyond individuals and individual minds and brains, and think about ourselves as mutually influencing beings. Fostering high levels of cooperation would be far better.” Within the NHS, for example, we’re increasingly split into small competing groups called ‘business units’. In fact, business is finding out that the internet is a good source for problem-solving because people simply like to share their thoughts and ideas for free! It’s sad that, in the face of this, governments continue to buy into the business model that competition creates efficiency. Recent evidence suggests that egalitarian attitudes produce more healthy responses when people are confronted with stressful social encounters than biased, competitive and non-egalitarian attitudes.13 There’s also growing evidence that fostering cooperative attitudes and behaviours in children and adolescents (in contrast to competitive and individualistic ones) promotes positive relationships, improved mental and physical health and higher achievements.14 In addition, it’s increasingly thought that cooperative groups will out-compete competitive/individualistic ones in the long term. “The cooperative mentality can orient us to be egalitarian in our ways of thinking.
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