Collaborate Disseminate
New research from Science: "Civic honesty around the globe": Abstract: Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development, but is often in conflict with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using field experiments in 355 cities spanning 40 countries around the globe. We turned in over 17,000 lost wallets with varying amounts of money… Continue reading Research on Human Honesty
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our planet over the long term. More generally, "the world continues to improve in just about every way." He’s right, but there are two important caveats. One, he is talking about the long… Continue reading Are We Becoming More Moral Faster Than We’re Becoming More Dangerous?
Interesting research in Nature. The article is behind a paywall, but here are five summaries of the research. EDITED TO ADD (10/16): Non-paywalled copy of the paper…. Continue reading Murder Is a Relatively Recent Evolutionary Strategy
I can’t believe I haven’t posted this before…. Continue reading Security Lessons from the Game of Werewolf