Mazrin g max baserman and i called it bounded ethicality instead of bounded rationality. We're trying to understand what are the systematic ways in which we may not always be fully ethical, just like we're not always fully rational. In any given moment, our brain processed 11 million thoughts. On that volume of unconscious thoughts dwarfs how much conscious thinking we're doing. So an example might be that, um, i teach classes of forty, 50, 60 students. There's a lot of discussion in these classes, a lot of hands in the air at the same time. And one day, my teaching assistant, i asked her, i'm right handed. I think i might
Most of us want to be good people–but what even makes a person “good?” And is our fixation on whether or not we ARE good holding us back from becoming even better? Dolly Chugh is an author and social psychologist who studies the psychology of good people. In this episode, she explains how ethical behavior is full of complexity and paradox, and shares insights on why even striving to be a “good-ish” person can actually help us grow into the better, nicer person we want to become.