Our new paper, Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism, led by Drs. Paul Piff and Dylan Wiwad, is now available at Nature Human Behaviour: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0835-8 Abstract: Amidst rising economic inequality and mounting evidence of its pernicious social effects, what motivates opposition to inequality? Five studies (n = 34,442) show that attributing poverty to...

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Watch Azim’s Aspen Ideas Fest talk on Self-Driving Cars: https://www.aspenideas.org/session/confront-moral-conundrums-who-should-self-driving-cars-save

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Azim, Iyad Rahwan and Jean-François Bonnefon have written an op-ed for the New York Times about driverless car ethics. Link is here. The research it’s based on can be found here.  

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Our latest paper, Free Will and Punishment: Diminished Belief in Free Will Reduces Retribution, co-authored with a long list of collaborators (Joshua Greene, Johan Karremans, Jamie Luguri, Cory Clark, Jonathan Schooler, Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs) was just accepted at Psychological Science. In four studies, the paper shows that diminishing people’s beliefs about free will reduces the amount of retributive punishment they seek for...

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