Adam Waytz

Adam Waytz

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Adam Waytz is a social psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He researches how people think about other minds, technology, intergroup conflict, and ethics.

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Our minds crave simple, linear narratives. But society rarely follows a straight line.
2 min
There is greater social distance between Americans than ever before.
4 min
We tend to promote foreigners by broadcasting their economic and scholarly value, instead of their intrinsic humanity.
4 min
Here's what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.