About Mind Matters

In markets, medicine, justice, politics, psychology, and economics, "Rational Man" is dead. As the science of human behavior enters the post-rational era, we no longer think of ourselves as cool calculators in pursuit of our objective self-interest. Mind Matters is about this change and its effects on how we live. It's about the reasons people perceive, feel, think, and act as they do, and the gaps between what we think we're doing and what research says we're doing. Most importantly, it's about how this sea change affects the institutions we live by: courts, hospitals, governments, stock markets and other entities that still run on the presumption that people act rationally.

Links

• My book, Us and Them
• The Loom (Carl Zimmer)
• The Situationist (Post-Rational Law)
• The Frontal Cortex (Jonah Lehrer)
• Scrivener (which I use to write everything, including this blog)
• Kevin Lewis' 'Findings'

Recent Posts

• 5/18

  Study: Want to Look Aggressive? Wear Black

• 5/17

  Take This Data And Shove It

• 5/16

  Should Psychologists Just Butt Out of Politics?

• 5/13

  When Bad Actions Have Good Consequences

• 5/11

  How Stories Mislead Us

• 5/10

  Skepticism About Stories: The "Narrababble" Critique

• 5/09

  Why Are Humans So Drawn to Stories?

• 5/07

  To Care for the Old, Trust Government, Not Families

• 4/20

  How We Decide to Decide

• 4/15

  In A Shipwreck, Your Heart Is More Likely To Go On If You're Male