The Morality of Feeling Equal Empathy for Strangers and Family Alike
Feelings of empathy for others may be plentiful in a year of suffering. But is feeling more empathy to loved ones than strangers morally right? A research team sought to find out.
The Conversation
Topics: Bias Empathy Morality
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
Your Moral Compass Could Be Broken
People rarely question their own moral compass. But what shapes yours?
Freethink
Topics: Bias Morality
Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than Us?
A.I. developers are committing to end the injustices in how their technology is often made and used.
The New York Times
Topics: Bias Ethics Robots Technology
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
The Real Reason We’re Afraid of Robots
Humanity’s worries about being outsmarted and overthrown by omnipotent man-made automatons is much older than computer technology.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Agency Bias Technology
“Reality” Is Constructed By Your Brain. Here’s What That Means, and Why It Matters
What the science of visual illusions can teach us about our polarized world.
Vox
Topics: Bias Intellectual Humility Reality
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
Protests Over Killings of Black People Could Erode Racism, Researcher Says
Researcher says stereotypes will fall away as people come to see themselves as on the same side.
Science
Topics: Bias Social Inequality
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
How to Foster ‘Shoshin’
It’s easy for the mind to become closed to new ideas. Cultivating a beginner’s mind helps us rediscover the joy of learning.
Psyche
Topics: Awe Bias Humility Intellectual Humility Intelligence Knowledge Learning
Why Humans Aren’t Wired to Understand the Coronavirus
Emotions mixed with biases can push people to make rash or illogical choices, particularly when it comes to a topic as complex as a pandemic.
NBC News
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Emotion
Epistemic Humility — Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic
Overconfidence — and a lack of epistemic humility more broadly — can cause real harm.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Bias Intellectual Humility Knowledge
Meet the Psychologist Exploring Unconscious Bias — and Its Tragic Consequences for Society
Jennifer Eberhardt’s experiments reveal impact of implicit racial bias, from classroom discipline to police shootings.
Topics: Bias Social Cognition
People Don’t Learn to Trust Bots
AI elicits better cooperation through deception.
Scientific American
Topics: Bias Cooperation Trust
How Negativity Can Kill a Relationship
Successful marriages are defined not by improvement, but by avoiding decline.
The Atlantic
Topics: Bias Emotion Happiness
‘The Power of Bad’ Review: How to Reset a Mind-Set
An ingrained negativity bias leads to a perpetual sense of crisis, a feeling that things are getting worse — even when things are getting better.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Bias Emotion
In Search of a Satisfying Life — Past, Present, and Future
Many of us mistakenly believe that the quality of our lives has changed from the past, and we expect that it will change into the future. But such beliefs do not necessarily reflect our actual life experiences.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Aging Bias
Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart
Americans are as polarized as they’ve ever been. Could the problem be that we’re caring for each other too much?
WIRED
Topics: Bias Empathy Group Conflict Robert Wright
How Personal Experience of Adversity Influences Our Feelings of Compassion Towards Others
“Surviving past adversity leads people to believe they will be effective in helping others, which allows them to up-regulate their feelings of compassion in the face of more demanding events,” the researchers conclude.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Bias Compassion David DeSteno
Societies Are Tearing Apart, But They Can Be Brought Together
We must reduce the social distance between people and focus on shared human traits, says Adam Waytz, author of The Power of Human.
Open Future, The Economist
Topics: Adam Waytz Bias Cognition Group Conflict Power Violence
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