A new study finds that children of liberal parents engage in costly third-party punishment against in-group members, whereas children of conservative parents do not. The more liberal their parents are, the more likely those kids were to punish, inguendo group members more harshly. Among conservatives, it's the opposite. They're more likely to let the inguendo member off the hook and punish the out group member more harshly.
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.