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Social Trust
Aaron Hurst — founder and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Connection — offers a bold new vision for community service.
Governance scholar and University of Pittsburgh professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ph.D. on the forces that decide whether conflicted nations unify or unravel.
John Templeton Foundation
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Is gratitude to a deity different from gratitude to other people? Psychology and neuroscience professor Sarah Schnitker explains.
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“We can have that fight for a 1,000 years, but we could have a shot at figuring out what we both need and noticing when there's opportunities to make that happen.”
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“Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today with that number increasingly rising annually.”
Social entrepreneur Aaron Hurst explains why the decline of social connection is the greatest challenge of our time — and offers a roadmap for restoration.
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“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
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"The more uncertain and scary things get in the world, the more we as humans are drawn to simple dichotomies."
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"I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and
partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies."
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“The problem with conspiracy theories is they're not just telling you a story, they're telling you a really good story. There's a hidden cabal behind everything that's happening, there's a secret pattern that you just have to be smart enough to detect.”
In today’s political climate, how can we come together and seek some common ground or understanding? What are the mechanics of doing that? Is there some script or set of […]
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
From empowerment to intellectual humility, these executive leadership skills are invaluable to an organization.
You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.
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A majority of Americans think they are trustworthy, yet believe most other people can’t be trusted.
Stand Together
Is hope more realistic than despair? Aquinas thinks so.
When reading critiques that inflate the uncertainty of science, ask these 7 questions.