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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202208/the-psychological-silver-lining-faceless-bureaucracy" target="_self">The Psychological Silver Lining of Faceless Bureaucracy</a><br />');
document.write('Why do we let impersonal authority figures enforce rules? Doing so may be psychologically easier when even a small amount of doubt is present, research finds.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202204/universal-versus-tribal-psychology" target="_self">Universal Versus Tribal Psychology</a><br />');
document.write('Why is the West psychologically peculiar and how did it become relatively rich? Explaining the past is one thing. Preparing for the future is a bigger challenge.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202112/getting-others-do-their-fair-share-fairly" target="_self">Getting Others to Do Their Fair Share, Fairly</a><br />');
document.write('More evidence that humans are a cooperative species: cooperators pay to monitor, not punish blindly.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202106/total-selfishness-has-few-legs-stand" target="_self">Total Selfishness Has Few Legs to Stand On</a><br />');
document.write('The Prisoner\'s Dilemma is one example of how hyper-rational self-interest derails our shared welfare. The social dilemma game Centipede adds emphasis in spades.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202102/behavioral-economists-see-partisan-good-threat-in-america" target="_self">Behavioral economists see partisan good, threat, in America</a><br />');
document.write('Competition between contending views can fuel civic engagement, but until we\'ve put needed checks in place, our aspirations towards democracy may well prove to be in vain.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202011/showing-the-alpha-male-the-door" target="_self">Showing the Alpha Male the Door</a><br />');
document.write('An analysis of body language by a high-ranking primate is but one of many pearls in this gem of a book by the leading scientific voice on learning from our ape cousins.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202009/meditation-time-and-ruth-bader-ginsburg-the-jewish-new-year" target="_self">A Meditation on Time and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Jewish New Year</a><br />');
document.write('There is a human need to mark the passage of time. On the eve of the Jewish New Year, an inspiring example of what a human life can be came to an end.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202009/deaths-despair-preceded-pandemic-what-will-follow" target="_self">“Deaths of Despair” Preceded Pandemic; What Will Follow?</a><br />');
document.write('Case and Deaton\'s \"Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism\" should not be overshadowed by COVID-19, a pandemic that adds to the pre-existing epidemic of needless deaths.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202006/gauging-trust-the-pandemic-continues" target="_self">Gauging Trust as the Pandemic Continues</a><br />');
document.write('A survey you can sample tries to gauge the state of trust in government, and among individuals, in the time of Covid-19.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202006/ppe-democracy" target="_self">PPE for Democracy?</a><br />');
document.write('The psychology of social movements suggests that \"hazmat suits for democracy\" is a movement waiting to happen.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202005/covid-19-ever-the-human-advantage-is-cooperation" target="_self">COVID-19: As Ever, the Human Advantage Is Cooperation</a><br />');
document.write('In the struggle between the simplest and the most complex life form, the human advantage is not only intelligence but, perhaps more importantly, cooperation.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/202002/high-quality-life-accountable-government-necessity" target="_self">For high quality of life, accountable government a necessity</a><br />');
document.write('Want to read (or gift) a good book about politics and polities for President\'s Day? Try \'The Narrow Corridor,\' which comes complete with \"shackled leviathan.\"');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201912/overconfidence-inequality-and-just-world-thinking" target="_self">Overconfidence, Inequality, and “Just World” Thinking</a><br />');
document.write('By over-attributing success to their own hard work, some downweight fairness concerns due to perceptual error.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201910/shared-adversity-and-empathy" target="_self">Shared Adversity and Empathy</a><br />');
document.write('The grandchildren of individuals secluded in a leper colony until the 1950s are both unusually kind towards strangers, and kinder still towards members of their own community.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201908/are-government-and-the-market-strange-bedfellows" target="_self">Are Government and the Market Strange Bedfellows?</a><br />');
document.write('The economist argues that understanding the government as a potential ally is crucial to reversing the prolonged decline of America’s middle class.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201908/hong-kong-protests-reasoning-and-emotion" target="_self">Hong Kong Protests: Reasoning and Emotion</a><br />');
document.write('Hong Kong protests illustrate the complex social side of human nature. Behavioral economics suggests how strategic calculation and emotion both influence decision-making.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201906/june-4-july-4-the-us-failure-respond-tiananmen" target="_self">June 4, July 4 - the U.S. failure to respond to Tiananmen</a><br />');
document.write('Xi’s China rose on the crushed bones of its June 4 demonstrators; today’s America offers only trade disruption, a values-free response, as Hong Kong careens towards its turn');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201905/building-democratic-capital" target="_self">Building \"democratic capital\"</a><br />');
document.write('Research using behavioral economics techniques and 800 years of Swiss history demonstrates that democracy has long-lasting effects. ');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201903/what-makes-us-human-is-our-need-connect" target="_self">What Makes Us Human (is Our Need to Connect)</a><br />');
document.write('Reach out and touch someone? Sounds trite, but now read this... (about Michael Tomasello\'s important 2019 book, Becoming Human)');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201902/is-rising-tide-enough" target="_self">Is a Rising Tide Enough?</a><br />');
document.write('Inequality in China has raced ahead of the U.S.\'s and far ahead of Taiwan\'s. With a still growing economy, do any of China\'s people care?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201901/trust-in-government-and-how-our-future-depends-it" target="_self">Trust in Government - and How our Future Depends on It</a><br />');
document.write('The mixed economy has helped bring a better living standard to hundreds of millions. Now, falling trust in government raises doubts about its survival. Enter OECD\'s \"TrustLab.\"');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201811/why-you-should-vote" target="_self">Why You Should Vote</a><br />');
document.write('Voting makes little sense for a perfectly rational and selfish person. But progress towards government of, by, and for people depends on each of us exercising this right.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201810/inequality-and-violence" target="_self">Inequality and Violence</a><br />');
document.write('Concern about rising inequality not enough to get you to the polls? Try reading more of the dismal science of history.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201806/do-computational-mind-theorists-commit-descartes-error" target="_self">Do Computational Mind Theorists Commit Descartes’ Error?</a><br />');
document.write('Brains can no more be uploaded to the cloud than humans can be fully represented by the mathematics of rational actor models.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201801/the-wealth-gap" target="_self">Up with the Wealth Gap!</a><br />');
document.write('The tax cut locked in a 21.5% increase in the value of U.S. stocks, the majority of which are owned by the wealthiest 2% of U.S. households. Do Americans get it?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201712/2018-predictions-best-if-we-dont-count-them" target="_self">2018 Predictions: Best if We Don\'t Count on Them</a><br />');
document.write('Empowering ordinary Americans in 2018 requires fighting overconfidence.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201709/born-good" target="_self">Born Good?</a><br />');
document.write('Economists, taking altruism seriously, find mixed evidence parents model it for their young children, stronger evidence that young kids are impressionable in this domain.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201706/globalization-and-work-have-we-learned-anything-yet" target="_self">Globalization and Work: Have We Learned Anything Yet?</a><br />');
document.write('Free trade raises GDP but has its losers as well as its winners. It’s time to exchange the “winners could compensate losers” slogan for a “winners must compensate losers” policy.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201702/the-behavioral-side-supplemental-nutrition-assistance" target="_self">The Behavioral Side of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance</a><br />');
document.write('The tendency to engage in \"mental accounting\" can help government to target assistance where it is intended.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201612/views-luck-tied-political-orientation" target="_self">Views of Luck Tied to Political Orientation</a><br />');
document.write('Have you earned the gains you obtained by lucky choices? Do the unlucky deserve our help? Your answers might predict your politics.');
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