David Rand is a behavioral scientist at Yale University, using a deeply interdisciplinary approach to understand human cooperation, generosity and altruism. “We have done lots of experiments showing that if you make people more intuitive, it makes them more cooperative. If you make them more reflective, it makes them more selfish.”
David Rand: Natural cooperation
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David DeSteno: Compassion science
David DeSteno directs the Social Emotions Lab at Northeastern University where his research is pulling back the curtain to reveal some of the mechanics that drive human compassion. “It is not the severity or the objective facts of a disaster that motivate us to feel compassion and to help. It is whether or not we see ourselves in the victims.”
David DeSteno: Compassion science
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Daniel Zoughbie on good habits
Daniel Zoughbie created Microclinic International to leverage the power of social network relationships to spread healthy behaviors throughout under-resourced communities. “We believe, based on our experience, that good behaviors are indeed contagious.”
Daniel Zoughbie on good habits
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Sinan Aral: Social contagion
Sinan Aral’s two areas of interest are behavioral contagions and causality. He believes that if we can understand how behavior is spread in a population, there’s the potential to promote good behaviors such as condom use and tolerance and to deter behavior like smoking and violence.
Sinan Aral: Social contagion
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