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.
The Conversation
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Fairness Group Identity Morality Values
The Urge to Punish Is Not Only About Revenge — Unfairness Can Unleash It, Too
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
Topics: Cooperation Fairness Social Inequality
Gratitude Helps You Cooperate. Does It Also Make You a Sucker?
The clear signal of honest, generous intent that comes with feeling and expressing gratitude can cut both ways. Having more “cooperators” in a group means there are more opportunities for these good people to work together. But it also means there are more opportunities for bad actors to exploit.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Cooperation David DeSteno Emotion Fairness Generosity Gratitude Honesty Trust
What Science Tells Us About the Psychology of Whistleblowers
What does the research show? Key findings from decades of scientific inquiry examining the psychology of whistleblowing are summarized.
Forbes
Topics: Ethics Fairness Morality
Whistle-Blowers Act Out of a Sense of Morality
Moral concerns outweigh organizational factors when people consider exposing bad behavior.
Chicago Booth Review
Babies Want Fair Leaders
Babies as young as a year and a half want leaders to fix situations in which they see someone else being treated unfairly.
60-Second Science, Scientific American
Topics: Cognitive Development Fairness Morality Power
Winners Overlook Rigged Games’ Lack of Fairness, Study Finds
A new experiment, played out as a card game, shows that even when the deck is literally stacked in people’s favor — and they know it — most winners still think it’s fair anyway. Losers don’t.
The Associated Press
Topics: Fairness Luck Success Wealth
Why Do Whistleblowers Risk Speaking Out?
Adam Waytz is digging deeper into the act of whistleblowing to understand why some people risk everything to speak out against wrongdoings.
TEDMED
Topics: Adam Waytz Ethics Fairness Morality Robots Values
Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness
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.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness Generosity Reputation
Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture — Apes Have It All
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.
Nautilus
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Atheism Cooperation Emotion Empathy Fairness Frans de Waal Human Uniqueness Morality Religiosity
Understanding the Psychology of Virtue
In an age rife with stories of cyberbullying, hate crime, rude politicians, and physical violence, it’s certainly worth asking how we as individuals can do better. A new initiative started by two psychologists at Boston College seeks to find a scientific answer to that question.
CIFAR
Topics: Fairness
When Water Is Scarce We’re Willing to Share What We Really Need
People may be more willing to share scarce resources they really need than apocalyptic Hollywood movies may suggest.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making Empathy Fairness Generosity
How to Seem More Generous Than You Really Are
If you’re the sort of person who’d prefer to get something out of your generosity, a group of psychologists has the research you’ve been waiting for.
The Cut
Humans Might Not Be Altruistic ‘Avengers’ After All, Study Finds
Research contradicts the long-held belief that humans interfere when they see the abuse of strangers.
Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
Topics: Altruism Fairness
Nobody Likes a Freeloader — Including Four-Year-Old Kids
“Kids have a pretty strong set of pro-social intuitions around fairness and cooperation, and the need to contribute to larger public goods,” said Yarrow Dunham, assistant professor of psychology.
Quartz
Topics: Cooperation Fairness
Babies Expect People to Be Fair. They Also Expect Them to Be Prejudiced
A group of researchers tested expectations of fairness in 120 children ranging in age from 18 to 30 months old.
Topics: Bias Cognition Fairness Tribalism
Do Kids Have a Fundamental Sense of Fairness?
Experiments show that this quality often emerges by the age of 12 months.
Scientific American
Morality Isn’t a Compass — It’s a Calculator
Moral disputes are a product of independent minds with independent agendas. Thus, there is little reason to see ourselves as unbiased sources of righteousness.
Topics: Belief Bias Decision-Making Fairness Morality
The Disturbing Thing Scientists Learned When They Bribed Babies With Graham Crackers
The general results suggest that people are willing to pay personal costs — up to a point — to avoid dealing with immoral or deviant people, the researchers say, and that this behavior begins very young.
Wonkblog, The Washington Post
Topics: Fairness Morality Social Cognition
How We Learn Fairness
New research shows that we aren’t born with an equality instinct. How do we learn to value fairness for its own sake?
The New Yorker
Topics: Cultural Evolution Fairness
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