Here’s How to Crack Your New Year’s Resolutions
Practicing gratitude, compassion, and resilience can help us keep our New Year’s resolutions.
The Guardian
Topics: Animal Studies Bias Empathy Morality
The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness
What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats.
The New York Times
How Culture Shapes Your Mind — and Your Mental Illness
Psychologists have spent the last 100 years trying to standardize the diagnosis of mental illness. But what if we all experience it differently?
The Boston Globe
Topics: Bias
You Can’t Characterize Human Nature If Studies Overlook 85 Percent of People on Earth
Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world’s population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.
The Conversation
Why We Stereotype Strangers
No matter how open-minded we are, we all have unconscious biases, a social psychologist says. Here’s how to deal with them.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Bias Social Inequality
Scientists Used AI to Explore the Results of the Implicit Association Test
By trying to understand how machines pick up human bias, we might in turn be able to learn how we acquire those biases ourselves.
Quartz
Topics: Bias Language
How to Let Go of Being a “Good” Person — And Become a Better Person
What if your attachment to being a “good” person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person?
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Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Morality
Why Being Good-ish Is Better Than Being Good: A Conversation With Dolly Chugh
In her new book, Dolly Chugh explains why it’s essential to act upon your values — and the psychology of how to do it effectively.
Behavioral Scientist
Promoting Dialogue About the Biggest Science and Society Questions
A new guide shares strategies for bringing people together to nurture understanding, respect, and collaboration.
Medium
Topics: Belief Bias Science & Religion Dialogue Values
The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking Machine
Mahzarin Banaji is the co-author of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People and co-founder of Project Implicit, an organization aimed at educating the public on implicit bias.
On Being
Topics: Bias Social Behavior Social Cognition
Loyal Sports Fans Illustrate an Ancient Human Instinct, Says Psychologist
Yarrow Dunham analyzed studies that examined a variety of human situations involving social groups and the people excluded from them, finding that people consistently show an in-group bias.
Inverse
Topics: Bias Cooperation Group Conflict Tribalism
Differences in Mental Images of Believers and Atheists
Do people spontaneously generate positive mental images of theists and negative mental images of atheists?
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Religiosity Trust Will Gervais
Why Do We See So Many Things as ‘Us vs. Them’?
We are wired at birth to favor our own group over others. But science might be able to help us move past what divides us.
National Geographic
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
Can Children Save Us From the Fake News Epidemic?
Child development research may hold the answer to our brutally partisan deadlock.
THINK, NBC News
Topics: Bias Knowledge Learning Trust
Belief in Our Moral Superiority Is the Most Irrational Self-Enhancing Bias of All
Moral superiority appears to be “a uniquely strong and prevalent form of positive illusion,” Ben Tappin and Ryan McKay write.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Bias Morality Rationality
The Trouble With Scientists
How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.
Nautilus
Topics: Bias Metascience Values
Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
Unrealistic optimism makes people think bad things are less likely to happen to them than to others, and it hampers their decision-making.
The Atlantic
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Optimism
Science Says Making Better Decisions Starts With This One Fundamental Thing
New research shows wisdom isn't about knowledge. It's about what kind of person you are.
Inc.
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Intellectual Humility Values Wisdom
How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America
Mindfulness erodes the psychology of tribalism in subtle and powerful ways.
WIRED
Topics: Bias Cognition Emotion Meditation Robert Wright
How Many Atheists Are There?
Three percent of Americans. Or maybe that’s 11 percent. This 11 percent figure may be even way too low. Simply because that figure comes from telephone polls, where people have to tell a stranger they don’t believe in God. And lots of people might not want to do that.
Will Gervais’ Blog
Topics: Atheism Bias Demography Will Gervais
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