Social Science, Ideology, Culture, & History - by Barry Schwartz - Behavioral Scientist
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Social Science, Ideology, Culture, & History - by Barry Schwartz - Behavioral Scientist
we behave—often without realizing it—in a way that is keenly informed by the sense that our actions will be interpreted by others.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
All of these underlying ideas can be thought of as a kind of folk sociology or political science. They are everyday explanations of how the world works that sit alongside the folk economics that makes people think, for example, that there is a fixed stock of jobs at any one point or that a nation’s finances should be run in the same way as those of
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
I can state the core idea in two relatively simple propositions. One is that in situations that have thinking participants, the participants’ view of the world is always partial and distorted. That is the principle of fallibility. The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate because false views lead to in... See more