A tortoise lies on its back, legs waving in distress, until a second tortoise crawls up to turn it over. Millions have watched this scene on YouTube, with many leaving heartfelt comments. “Great sense of solidarity,” says one. “There is hope,” says another. The viewers are responding to what many interpret More
What makes a good leader? Is it an ability to make difficult decisions that others can’t or don’t want to? Is it being able to relate to the needs and desires of your employees/followers/subordinates so as to maintain good morale among the rank and file and promote productivity? Is it More
A sample of research on how trust may increase exposure to infection, wisdom of the crowd, aging and memory for distractors, social distancing motivated by empathy, using fake-news to enhance memory for facts, children’s cognitive reflection and understanding of science, and choice-induced preference in infancy. More
A sample of research on economic behavior, motivation interventions in education, perception, neural representations of procedural knowledge, empathy and romantic relationships, and stereotype-threat in chess. More
A sample of research on disgust theory in psychiatric medicine, affect during depression treatment, the role of perspective shifting in empathy toward others and the self, individual differences in personality disorders, and decision making processes in substance use disorders. More
Many people believe that life is a zero-sum game and that the most ruthless people get the furthest. But Jamil Zaki, a Stanford psychologist and author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, says there’s a lot of evidence to the contrary. “It turns out that nice More
