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Ravi Iyer, a graduate student and colleague of mine at the University of Southern California in social psychology, blogs regularly about moral psychology at polipsych.com, and tweets from @ravi_polipsych. He collaborates with others on YourMorals.org, where interested individuals may participate in research in political and moral psychology. I asked him to contribute a guest post about his work.

This paper focuses on the interactions between peripheralization, vulnerabilities of agricultural livelihoods, and local collective agency in the creation of new capabilities in intermediate cities. It discusses the theoretical implications of a study conducted in the municipality of Tarímbaro, part of the intermediate city of Morelia, Mexico; it expands on results already published in preliminary form. The unit of analysis was the ejido, since this type of social land tenure, granted to la...

When a juror looks at an act and declares it to be bad or good, where is that coming from? Well, hopefully, it is coming from the evidence. But inevitably, it is also coming from that...

When a juror looks at an act and declares it to be bad or good, where is that coming from? Well, hopefully, it is coming from the evidence. But…

The Jussie Smollett case revealed something important about American political discourse.

Commentary The moral justification for markets finds itself on the defensive in the face of aggressive challenges issuing ...

The road to hell was paved with victimology

Three days after graduating magna cum laude, Nathaniel Bald, C’21, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA) to Madagascar, the program’s brand-new location. Bald majored in economics, French and German and is the first Mountie to ever win an ETA grant to highly competitive Sub-Saharan Africa.

Vaccine hesitancy part 1: Using connections to drive human-centered approaches for health During a late-night car ride through the Athens hills, I realized that a colleague of mine was vehemently opposed to vaccination. He teaches at a world-leading university and has founded a visionary company; we even live in the same tech-savvy neighborhood in California. And yet there we were: after an intense day of brainstorming with more than a thousand European innovators, he opened up to me about the ...