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243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel

You Are Not So Smart

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Are We Doing a Better Job of Cooperating?

A study shows that Americans are doing a better job of cooperating and have been doing so over a period of time now. But our beliefs about that very thing are in the other direction. We believe that our willingness to cooperate has declined while it's actually increased. This poses a potential problem if we continue to generate perceptions of a lack of pro-sociality, people might become less cooperative.

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