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George Loewenstein, the neuroeconomist, thinks that understanding the errors of the emotional brain will help policymakers develop plans that encourage people to make better decisions: "Our emotions are like software programs that evolved to solve important and recurring problems in our distant past," he says. "They are not always we
... See moreJonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Darwin was a nativist about morality: he thought that natural selection gave us minds that were preloaded with moral emotions.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Wesley Yang • What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of “the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved”—especially in an online environment where the social approval of one’s attitudes is so much easier to acquire, in the currency of likes, faves, followers, and friends? And to acquire instantaneously?
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
If the capacity to love is part of what it means to be human, then to assume that someone is incapable of love is to see them as less than human;
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
In The Coddling of the American Mind, Lukianoff and Haidt chart a dramatic decrease in young people’s resilience and ability to cope with difficult ideas and hurt feelings. The authors do not belittle these struggles, but emphasize that they are a painful consequence of the acceptance of three “Great Untruths.” These are the belief that people are
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The more we understand the human mind in causal terms, the harder it becomes to draw a distinction between cases like 4 and 5.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Quote from After Babel:
... See more“Another mistake is believing that our children are more advanced than others in terms of the strength of their character; unfortunately, our values are not passed through our genes. Despite our efforts to train our teens to “do the right thing” on their screens, teens are not gifted with the willpower needed for social medi
But this is a false choice, and in 1987 moral psychology was mostly focused on a third answer: rationalism, which says that kids figure out morality for themselves.