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Tim Bakken’s profile on The Conversation

People penalized for violating a group’s shared rules could go on to disrupt its functioning, out of revenge. Two scholars suggest a way of imposing rules.

Attitudes towards immigrants have become a crucial topic in policy and politics. This column uses tools from network science to identify and compare determinants of attitudes toward immigrants from a global perspective. It finds that prejudice is a common determinant of negative attitudes across all regions, especially towards people of another race. Furthermore, individuals

When researchers look at CCTV footage of how people really react during earthquakes – as opposed to what they report after the fact – it looks like alerts aren’t yet inspiring protective action.

President of the united states. >> but he's very impetuous and latest is often the greatest. so he's very susceptible to who he's just talked with. he has, as time has gone on, gotten rid of a lot of the guardrails around him. >> you say that on several occasions, president obama reprimanded me for comments he thought were dogmatic or sanctimonious. we've all read your book, samantha. i looked down chastened, but 15 minutes later, he said, let's get back to the point sam made earlier. what is that like? i mean i've had one or two experiences where president obama seemed annoyed at a question i...