• What happened in the hostage situation?

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    Andrew Huberman mentioned a specific hostage situation during a discussion with Chris Voss on the "Huberman Lab" podcast. He recalled a case from the late 1980s in Sacramento where a youth gang took over an electronics store called Good Guys. This incident left a strong impression on him from childhood. During the siege, the hostage-takers put bags over the heads of the hostages, a method used to dehumanize and make it easier for them to execute their captives. The situation escalated when the perpetrators began preparing to execute the hostages because the bags had been placed over their heads, signaling their readiness to kill 1.

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