“Just Following Orders” Doesn’t Let You Off the Hook Psychologically
How does our level of agency over a decision influence how culpable we feel, when that decision leads to death?
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Research Lead: An Unexpected Sense of Culpability, Sifting Through Positive Reviews, Social Tipping Points, 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 April 2021.
We Can All Be Fundamentalists, and Fundamentalism Is Everywhere
A conversation with the authors of “Minds Wide Shut” about how to avoid a destructive, and pervasive, mode of thinking that affects all of us.
Subtract: Why Getting to Less Can Mean Thinking More
In striving to improve our lives, our work, and our society, we overwhelmingly add, overlooking another powerful option—subtraction.
Exploring the Links Between Autism and Invention
Scott Barry Kaufman speaks with Simon Baron-Cohen about Baron-Cohen’s new book, The Pattern Seekers, which makes the case that the same genes that give rise to autism are and have been crucial to humanity’s propensity to invent and innovate.
Research Lead: Disputed Data on Crime-Fighting Tanks, Parsing the Importance of Passion, Boosting Organizations with Behavioral Science, 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 March 2021.