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Cooperating with the future
An intergenerational cooperation game has been developed to study decision-making regarding resource use: when decisions about resource extraction were made individually the resource was rapidly depleted by a minority of defectors; the resource was sustainably maintained across generations, however, when decisions were made democratically by voting.
- Oliver P. Hauser
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Outlook |
Public planning: Designs fit for purpose
Better thought-out town planning and interior design can create healthier environments, but how to effectively implement the best designs remains uncertain.
- Duncan Graham-Rowe
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World View |
Why we are poles apart on climate change
The problem isn’t the public’s reasoning capacity; it’s the polluted science-communication environment that drives people apart, says Dan Kahan.
- Dan Kahan
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Books & Arts |
Behaviour: Life interwoven
James H. Fowler applauds a master biologist's model of the evolution of sociality.
- James H. Fowler
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Chaos promotes stereotyping
A disorderly environment makes people more inclined to put others in boxes.
- Philip Ball
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Books & Arts |
Books in brief
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Why dire climate warnings boost scepticism
Undermining belief in a fair world may mean that climate warnings go unheeded.
- Matt Kaplan
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Opinion |
Most people are not WEIRD
To understand human psychology, behavioural scientists must stop doing most of their experiments on Westerners, argue Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan.
- Joseph Henrich
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Science in court: Head case
Last year, functional magnetic resonance imaging made its debut in court. Virginia Hughes asks whether the technique is ready to weigh in on the fate of murderers.
- Virginia Hughes
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Books & Arts |
Q&A: Peter Hessler on urbanization in China
In Country Driving, the final book in his China trilogy, Peter Hessler recounts his 11,000-kilometre drive across China to see at first hand the effects of rapid industrialization. The New Yorker journalist explains how mass migration to cities brings out people's resourcefulness, but also how the speed of social and environmental change leads them to seek meaning in their lives.
- Jane Qiu