Being in Time
How much should we value the past, the present, and the future?
The New Yorker
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Happiness Rationality
Just Thinking About Cooperation Can Make You Less Prejudiced
A new study suggests that imagining we’ll be cooperating with people outside our social groups reduces bias.
Greater Good Magazine
Topics: Bias Cooperation
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
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
We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make
The way we decide may even give insight into delusional thinking.
Scientific American
Topics: Agency Belief Bias Cognition Decision-Making Learning
Those Infuriating Republican Hypocrites Are a Lot Like You and Me
The human mind is disturbingly adept at justifying our actions.
The Boston Globe
Topics: Bias Fairness Morality
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
Mask Communication
It turns out getting someone to wear a mask has a lot to do with how you ask, and when, and who does the asking.
Planet Money, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Reputation
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.
Topics: Bias Cooperation Trust
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