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Social psychologists have known for decades that people are motivated to work harder when others are watching. When they are observed, people run faster, are more creative, and think harder about problems.

Rohit • Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage

I’m no moral philosopher, but from a behavioral standpoint, a lot of what we consider “evil” is poor self-control and/or psychopathy, which both make some of us less likely to suppress acting on impulses coming from the darker side of our human nature.

In controversial experiments, now simply known as the Milgram Experiments, named for the psychologist Stanley Milgram, researchers told “normal” people that they were to punish other volunteers for breaking various rules. And punish them they did, sometimes escalating the punishment to the point of physical abuse. Almost none of the punishers objec

Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)

our brains are not designed to reward generosity as reliably as they punish meanness.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

One of the rarest and most admirable human traits is: self regulation of autonomic arousal. (Reflects top-down prefrontal-to-limbic control). Equates to: enhanced focus, accuracy of speech & actions & staying power in all endeavors. It’s obvious when present, or absent.

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.x.com

When they questioned the subjects afterward, the unsuspecting blinkers reported significantly higher feelings of respect and fondness for their colleagues who, unbeknownst to them, had simply been counting their blinks.

Leil Lowndes • How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Two University of Zurich researchers were equally curious: The Swiss nuclear incentive study, titled “The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out,” was conducted by Bruno S. Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. It was published in the American Economic Review 87 (1997): 746–55. forty students sat with number 2 pencils:

Ori Brafman • Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

When the eyes were watching, Bateson’s colleagues left nearly three times as much money in the honesty box.

Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics

980s by Richard A. Guzzo, associate professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and his colleagues at New York University. The raw numbers seemed to suggest a positive relationship between financial incentives and productivity, but because of the huge variations from one study to another, statistical tests indicated that th... See more