Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.
Society
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Our Hypocrisy Blind Spot
For our politics to function, we must find a balance between letting all hypocrisy slide and trying to eradicate hypocrisy completely.
The Cognitive Contradictions That Shape Who Runs the Household
There’s a puzzling inconsistency in the way couples deploy their skills at work and at home.
Older Stories
The Power of Asking ‘How?’
Humans love to ask, “Why?” But when it comes to our behavior, it can often be more productive and compelling to ask, “How?”
Why We Spiral
Questions of who we are or what we’re worth can send us into a tailspin. But the very same processes that pull us down can propel us up, too.
‘Radical Uncertainty’ and Trump’s On-again, Off-again Tariffs
Few of us relish uncertainty, but we can tolerate it if we at least know the odds.
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