‘We Have Never Been Individuals’
How our sense of human exceptionalism fosters a psychological detachment to the natural world that limits our science and diminishes our understanding of ourselves and other species.
Books
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Facts and the Fight for Moral High Ground
How science can get it right and still miss the point.
What It Takes to Make Good Decisions: Judgment, Not Calculation
The real work in deciding is not in the calculation, but all the thinking that surrounds it.
Older Stories
Why Rational Choice Theory Should Not Be the Standard for Good Decisions
A half century of research on how people make decisions has shown that rational choice theory fails to describe how people do choose. Nevertheless, it has remained at the center of things, as the normative answer to questions about how people should choose.
A Day in the Life
The theory that underpins much of decision-making science falls short as a way to think about how we actually make decisions and how decisions should be made.
Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2025
Our list of noteworthy behavioral science books published in 2025.
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