The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Perversity and Perverse Choices
I'm actually getting interested in perversity and perverse choices. My last book, Sweet Spot, was a little bit about our liking. I find writing and preparing a talk actually a very good way of sort of coming to terms with something. Ask people if they have something they've done that they've never told anyone about because it would be considered bad including like their spouse. You know, what would you guess the percentage of people who if truth be told would say yes? 100%.
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