Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Better Decisions During a Crisis?
New research indicates that AI may help people cooperate and make ethical decisions faster and with fewer errors.
Medium
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Ethics Morality
Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
Hollywood tells us humans are prone to lose all rationality in a disaster, looting and trampling one another. But that’s not giving our brains any credit.
WIRED
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making Rationality Resilience Social Inequality
Is Rationality Overrated?
Sometimes, it’s better to be reasonable.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Morality Rationality
Are You Psychologically Farsighted — And Why It Matters
An emerging body of research finds that how we think about the future determines our success in achieving our ideals.
Forbes
Topics: Decision-Making
Why Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser
The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.
Aeon
Topics: Decision-Making Emotion Intellectual Humility Wisdom
A Lesson From FaceApp: Learning to Relate to the Older Person We Will Become
Learning to think about your life in the distant future could help strengthen the long-term decisions you make.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Decision-Making Empathy
When It Comes to Moral Decisions, Testosterone Doesn’t Seem to Do Much
The researchers admit that every one of their hypotheses was wrong.
Ars Technica
Topics: Decision-Making Empathy Ethics Morality
Are We Intuitively Honest or Dishonest?
People may be intuitively dishonest, but only if it does not harm others.
Decisions in Context, Psychology Today
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Honesty
How Much of This Post Will You Read Before Making Up Your Mind About It?
From evaluating artwork, novel foods, or goods and services to evaluating peers, political candidates, and marriage prospects, people use far less information than they think they will before making judgments and decisions.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Information
Humans: Doing More With Less
A talk by Tom Griffiths.
Edge
Topics: Cognition Decision-Making Intelligence Rationality
Has Humanity Reached ‘Peak Intelligence’?
Are our IQs set to increase forever, or are we on the cusp of decline? David Robson explores the past, present, and future of intelligence.
BBC Future
Topics: Bias Cognition Cognitive Development Creativity Decision-Making Education Human Evolution Intelligence Rationality
Moral Science Confirms People Behave Better When They Think They’re Being Watched
Most people follow some form of moral code, but to what extent they abide by these rules does differ in various situations.
The Conversation
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality
What “Game of Thrones” Reveals About Moral Decision-Making
The fantasy series highlights profound questions of philosophy and psychology.
Scientific American
Being Empathic Doesn’t Make You a Pushover
A new study finds that more prosocial people are less aggressive in competition — but they tend to win out in the long run.
Greater Good Magazine
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Empathy
Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will
You make choices even if your atoms don’t.
Nautilus
Topics: Agency Decision-Making Determinism Free Will Metaphysics
Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness
How We Judge Other People’s Generosity — and Why It Matters
When we see a kind act, it might inspire us to be kind — depending on the emotions and judgments we have about it.
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making Emotion Generosity
How to Give Away Your Cake and Eat It Too
When people’s interests come into conflict with those of others, the freedom to choose sometimes creates a conflict between being seen as generous and kind versus getting what one wants.
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness Generosity Reputation
Study Shows We’re More Lone Wolves Than Team Players
Results may explain why collective action on climate change and health policy is so difficult.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making
Does Power Corrupt? How Powerful People React in Moral Dilemmas
Do people with power respond to moral dilemmas, such as the trolley problem, differently?
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality Power
A Smarter Way to Think About Willpower
Understanding willpower in America requires a more complex analysis.
The Washington Post
Topics: Angela Duckworth Decision-Making Self-Control Willpower
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