Do People Justify the System Because They Believe They Will Be Rich One Day? The most popular explanation on the political left and right for why poor people often endorse regressive forms of taxation and oppose wealth redistribution is that the poor believe that they will becom...
Why incoherent preferences do not justify paternalism. Constitu- tional Political Economy 19 (3), 226-248.Sugden, Robert. "Why incoherent preferences do not justify paternalism" (2008) 19 Const Polit Econ 226.Sugden, R. (2008) Why incoherent preferences do not justify paternalism. Constitu- ...
根据第一段“There’s a useful concept from psychology that helps explain why good people do things that harm the environment: the false consensus (共识) effect.(心理学中有一个有用的概念可以解释为什么好人会做危害环境的事情:虚假共识效应)”以及“Put simply, if you’re doing something (even if...
Put simply, if you’re doing something (even if you secretly know you probably shouldn’t), you’re more likely to think plenty of other people do it too. What’s more, you likely overestimate how much other people think that behavior is broadly OK.(心理学中有一个有用的概念,可以帮助...
Why do people read negative Internet comments and do other things that will obviously be painful? Because humans have an inherent need to 1 uncertainty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science。 The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will 2 to sa...
no‚ many find themselves going with the answer that is most accepted. This It doesn’t matter if the facts clearly justify one side of an argument or decision‚ if the general public disagreespeoplefeel as though they must take a passive approach and simply give in in an attempt to...
We both opened "burner" accounts with Starling, setting up two direct debits before using these to hop around. For direct debits, we didn't do anything crucial, but instead each set up two £5 direct debits to charity (I've also seen people set up two £1 direct debits to...
The problem isn’t just a lack of toilets—it’s a lack of toilets that people want to use. The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives.
And of course, there are ways in which humans do try to use probability to justify what’s happened in the world; they just don’t do it very well. Michael Shermer calls this “folk numeracy.” In a 2008 piece for Scientific American, Shermer wrote: “Folk numeracy is our natural tende...
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