What is morality to a psychologist? Like, what are we even talking about? Cause that's a word that gets, has folk meaning and scientific meaning. Psychology is all about trying to define these words. And so one of the things I think morality does is it makes people think in black or white and impose their values on others. That's why we're seeing it, you know, why it spills over into hatred when it's when they have a thing.
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.