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https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/pro_social_primates "David Rand, who’s a post-doc at Harvard, has done new work showing that when you make people go quickly, you get more altruistic kinds of donations.
Basically, it doesn’t seem like people have selfish urges and that’s their natural tendency—people aren’t like, “Oh, I’m going to clamp down on those selfish urges and be a nice guy for reputation.” It seems like the instinct is to be nice, to be pro-social,... , and it takes work to be like, “No I’m going to be an economist now and be a jerk.” 54 replies
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