Fair is fair, right? Well, except when it’s unfair. Appealing to people’s sense of fairness can be incredibly powerful in politics, but fairness is also one of the trickiest concepts in political psychology and cognitive linguistics to get right. Many voters sense that they’re being unfairly left out of the…
Psychology Says We Should Have Prosecuted
One of the most beautiful miracles of humanity is the contradiction of reason. We’re blessed with the capacity to reason carefully — but we’re not disposed to most of the time. Nowhere is this principle more clear than in economics, where academics and practitioners have developed advanced theories of utility…