Social trust is fraying, zombie bugs are on the loose and human ingenuity never fails to surprise—Scott McLemee rounds up select forthcoming titles from university presses.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
When you are faced with a decision, do you consider the best outcome, or do you consider your deepest values about which actions are appropriate? The Cost of...| MIT Press
When almost any event happens, people on opposing political sides reach wildly different conclusions about what actually happened. So much so that it feels like we are living in alternate realities. Steven Sloman, Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Science at Brown University, argues that in politics, we rely too much on our own sets of sacred values when we interpret political events. We need to understand the psychology that drives our political convictions, and discover how we can us...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
Sacred values may signify that one has a conscience, but they also have a dark side.| The MIT Press Reader