Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Paul Bloom on Empathy
In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles […]
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]
Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain
Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, it can be a cardinal […]
Bruce Hood on the Science of Happiness
Are university students unhappy? We won’t generalize, but many are, and this was something Bruce Hood noted. Being an experimental psychologist who […]
Joshua Greene on Effective Charities
Harvard psychology professor Joshua Greene studies the back-and-forth between emotion and reason in how human beings make moral decisions. In this Social […]
Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature
How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of research
Alison Gopnik on Care
Caring makes us human. This is one of the strongest ideas one could infer from the work that developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik is discovering in her work on child development, cognitive economics and caregiving.
Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Deborah Small, the Adrian C. Israel Professor of Marketing at Yale University, details some of the thought processes and outcomes that research provides about charitable giving.
