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Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature
Social Science Bites
August 1, 2024

Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature

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Alison Gopnik on Care
Social Science Bites
March 4, 2024

Alison Gopnik on Care

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Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
Social Science Bites
November 1, 2023

Deborah Small on Charitable Giving

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Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves
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October 2, 2023

Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

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Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

Trained as a social psychologist, Leiden University social psychologist Carsten de Dreu uses behavioral science, history, economics, archaeology, primatology and biology, among other disciplines to study the basis of conflict and cooperation among humans.

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Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology

Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology

Psychologist Shinobu Kitayama explores the cultural differences between Asia and America, the possible origins of those differences, and how the brain and body may reflect those differences.

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Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness

Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness

We are “less aware of the reasons for our choices than we think we are,” Petter Johansson and his partner Lars Hall have determined, and reasoning, as we call it, is often conducted post hoc.

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Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation

Ayelet Fishbach on Goals and Motivation

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” the poet Robert Browning once opined, “or what’s a heaven for?” That’s not […]

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Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment

Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics and Educational Attainment

Kathryn Paige Harden, director of the Developmental Behavior Genetics Lab and co-director of the Texas Twin Project at the University of Texas, discusses how much influence our DNA has on our PhD.

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David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger Effect, explains David Dunning, comes when “people who are incompetent or unskilled or not expert in a field lack expertise to recognize that they lack expertise. So they come to conclusions, decisions, opinions that they think are just fine when they’re, well, wrong.”

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Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

Batja Mesquita, a social psychologist at Belgium’s University of Leuven where she is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, theorizes that what many would consider universal emotions – say anger or maternal love – are actually products of culture.

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Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making

Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making

Quite often the ideas of ‘risk’ and of ‘uncertainty’ get bandied about interchangeably, but there’s a world of difference between them. That’s a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.

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