What makes us honest? The process of natural selection that honed our minds is supposedly one of cutthroat competition. We’re quite obviously driven to succeed, but often we choose not to lie or steal or cheat even when we rationally expect no consequences. In the Freudian account, it’s the rational superego that restrains the selfish [...]
Archive for July 24th, 2009
Angels and Demons
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dishonesty, fMRI, fMRI Lie Detection, Honesty, Joe Paxton, Joshua Greene, Morality, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences on July 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Follow-up On Mark Lynch
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mark Lynch on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You might remember my post last week on Mark Lynch’s international relations analysis of the JayZ – The Game spat. Turns out Lynch got quite a bit of (deserved) attention for the piece. He summarizes some of the more interesting commentary and points towards a good interview here. I also can’t stop laughing at the [...]
