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What if we knew when people were lying?
In Season One of the TV show The Good Place, Chidi Anagonye, an ethics and moral philosophy professor, faces a dilemma when a colleague asks his opinion about a new pair of boots. Chidi clearly
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring links between income inequality and psychological health and ethical free riding.
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Psychological Science’s Human Clientele: Beneficiaries or Victims?
Barbara Tversky’s engaging article, “Seeing Psychological Science Everywhere” (Observer, September 2018), prompts a historical note and some (brief) reflections on the present and future. In 1978, a stellar group of scholars revisited George Miller’s 1969
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How Self-Dehumanization Spirals Into Unethical Behavior
Until recently, most research on dehumanization has focused on how viewing individuals and groups of people as “less than human” can lead to immoral acts.
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Why liars lie: What science tells us about deception
We all do it sometimes, even though we know it’s wrong. But here’s the problem with lying: Research shows that the more you lie, the easier it gets, and the more likely you are to do
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How viral outrage can backfire
In a series of experiments, psychologists at Stanford showed people social media posts that could easily be seen as offensive — for instance, as racist, sexist, unpatriotic, or xenophobic. If the offensive post was shown
