Tag: psychology

• The Conservatism of Fatigue

  about 1 month ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  Tom Jacobs of Miller-McCune reports on a study from Scott Eidelman, et al, finding that "Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism." Here's Jacobs' summary: A research team led by University of Arkansas psychologist Scott Eidelman argues that conservatism — which the researchers ... Read More

• Why Economic Growth Totally Is Imperative

  5 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  This column (flagged by one of our eagle-eyed editors) by Kenneth Rogoff on "rethinking the growth imperative" is incredibly puzzling. Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor and former IMF chief economist, runs through a few hackneyed and largely discredited factoids about the limited relevance of ... Read More

• The wicked souls of utilitarians

  8 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  Are utilitarians bad people? Probably not. But is there nevertheless something wrong with them? This study, summarized in The Economist, seems to be getting around, and seems to suggest as much. A utilitarian, for example, might approve of the occasional torture of suspected terrorists—for ... Read More