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We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
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Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
SCARF – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness
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Largest Quantitative Synthesis to Date Reveals What Predicts Human Behavior and How to Change It
Hailey Reissmanasc.upenn.eduIn the summer of 1971, Zimbardo took healthy Stanford students, assigned them roles as either “guards” or “inmates,” and locked them in a makeshift “prison” in the basement of Stanford University. In just days, the “prisoners” began to demonstrate symptoms of depression and extreme stress, while the “guards” began to act cruel and sadistic (the exp
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