I just love this concept of cooperation is flexible. Like cooperative behavior, our inclination to cooperate is flexible and very environmentally influenced,. And you know, cooperation begets cooperation. I mean, anybody who's had an interaction with somebody they didn't trust knows what this is like. This is why the United States for a long time their foreign policy has been about building institutions in other countries that people can trust.
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.