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243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel

You Are Not So Smart

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Are You Going to Punish a Kid?

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.

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