Too Much of a Good Thing? The Perils of Overconfidence
Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with Don Moore from the University of California, Berkeley, about his new book, Perfectly Confident.
Kno[email protected]
Topics: Decision-Making Intellectual Humility Optimism
Being in Time
How much should we value the past, the present, and the future?
The New Yorker
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Happiness Rationality
Dartmouth’s Adina Roskies Explores the Nature of Free Will
A new article investigates the link between activity in the brain and human behavior.
Dartmouth News
Topics: Decision-Making Free Will
Correcting Misinformation on Social Media May Spread It Further
MIT researchers found that correcting a Twitter user “shifts their attention not to accuracy but toward social things like being embarrassed.”
The Boston Globe
Topics: Decision-Making Information
Less Is More: Why Our Brains Struggle to Subtract
People think about what they can add before they think about what they can take-away.
Nature
Topics: Bias Decision-Making
Most People Don’t Actively Seek to Share Fake News
New research shows that subtly nudging people to think about accuracy increases the quality of the news they share.
Scientific American
Selfish or Selfless? Human Nature Means You’re Both
Cognitive neuroscientists use brain imaging and behavioral economic games to investigate people’s sense of fairness. They find it’s common to take care of yourself before looking out for others.
The Conversation
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness
Building and Enhancing Resilience Through Free Will
Research on the neuroscience behind free will helps us cultivate resiliency.
Hope + Resilience, Psychology Today
Topics: Decision-Making Free Will Resilience
Synchronized Violin Players Reveal Uniqueness of Human Networks
It’s relevant to economics, epidemiology, traffic, and the spread of misinformation.
Ars Technica
Topics: Decision-Making Social Networks
The Psychology of Fairness: Why Some Americans Don’t Believe the Election Results
When a decision is made and people don’t get the outcome they want, they often tend to see it as unfair. Here’s why.
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Fairness Group Identity Morality Values
How to Be an Effective Altruist When Giving to Charities
Give to charities that maximize the impact of your donation, but don’t overlook causes close to your heart.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making Empathy Joshua Greene Morality Social Behavior
Why Even the Most Reasonable People You Know Are Bending Covid Safety Rules
Social distancing guidelines go against our deepest instincts and cultural norms. Can we overcome that as a society?
Elemental, Medium
Topics: Decision-Making Group Identity Values
We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make
The way we decide may even give insight into delusional thinking.
Topics: Agency Belief Bias Cognition Decision-Making Learning
American Society Teaches Everyone to Be Racist — But You Can Rewrite Subconscious Stereotypes
If you’re American — regardless of the color of your skin — racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Social Inequality
When Causing Harm Is Unavoidable, We Prefer to Cause More Harm for More Benefits Rather Than Less Harm for Fewer
Jonathan Berma from London Business School and Daniella Kupor from Boston University find that in situations where harm is unavoidable, people consistently try to maximize the social benefit, rather than minimize the amount of harm caused.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Decision-Making Morality Values
You Want People to Do the Right Thing? Save Them the Guilt Trip
Positive messaging, speaking to people’s positive sense of self, might be a more powerful lever of behavioral change.
Psyche
Topics: Decision-Making Emotion Pride
AI Is Learning When It Should and Shouldn’t Defer to a Human
Is a doctor or an AI system better at diagnosing a particular patient? This machine learning tool makes the call.
Technology Review
Topics: Decision-Making Technology
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
The minute we make any decision — I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax — we begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative.
The Atlantic
Topics: Belief Cognition Decision-Making
MIT Researchers Found a Way to Deter People From Sharing COVID-19 Conspiracies
A new study suggests that periodically prompting users to think about news accuracy could help limit the sharing of misinformation.
Fast Company
Topics: Decision-Making Information Social Cognition
Playing Favorites: When Kindness Toward Some Means Callousness Toward Others
If we do a favor for someone we know, we think we’ve done a good deed. What we don’t tend to ask is: Who have we harmed by treating this person with more kindness than we show toward others?
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Decision-Making Group Identity Joshua Greene Morality
Curbing Implicit Bias: What Works and What Doesn’t
Psychologists have yet to find a way to diminish hidden prejudice, but they do have strategies for thwarting discrimination.
Knowable Magazine
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Social Behavior Social Cognition
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