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
Philosophers and Neuroscientists Join Forces to See Whether Science Can Solve the Mystery of Free Will
The collaboration, the researchers say, can help them tackle two important questions: What does it take to have free will? And whatever that is, do we have it?
Science
Topics: Consciousness Decision-Making Free Will
The Psychology of Heroism
Philip Zimbardo explores whether everyday people can be trained to be saviors.
STANFORD Magazine
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making
Penn Professor Angela Duckworth Publishes Research on Self-Control Methods
Angela Duckworth and Katherine Milkman examined psychology and economics research to identify four different types of self-control methods.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Will Autonomous Vehicles Make Us Better People?
Research finds that programming driverless cars ahead of time inspires a person to move away from egocentric decision-making.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Robots Technology
The Art of Decision-Making
Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.
The New Yorker
Topics: Decision-Making Rationality Transformation Values
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