CNN's John Sutter talks with social scientist David Frum about his new paper. It looks at how cooperation works, why people cooperate in groups as opposed to being selfish. People often think of cooperation as like that guy's a nice guy or she's selfish, he says. But what we found is that cooperation is actually hugely flexible and it's shaped by the norms in pretty radical ways.
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.