self-interest

September 21st, 2021

Research Lead: Humans—the Rationalizing Animal, Situational Selfishness, Assessing “Nudgeability”, L’eggo My Ego-Depletion, and More

The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for September 2021.

March 01st, 2021

Cooperators, Crusaders, and the Complicit: The Trinity of Religious Moral Character

By Samantha Abrams

Psychologists have long wondered whether religion makes us more or less moral. The answer is more complicated than it might seem.

June 28th, 2016

Infans economicus: Is There Something Disturbing About How Babies Respond to Incentives?

By Samuel Bowles

“The disturbing thing scientists learned when they bribed babies with graham crackers” read a Washington Post headline. Ready to be disturbed with the best of them, I read on.