Psychology and brain science are not zero sum: Comment on Klein (2016).

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-389
Author(s):  
Thalia Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Brain Science ◽  
Zero Sum

Why do people believe in a zero-sum economy?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G. B. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Coalitional Psychology ◽  
The Face ◽  
Zero Sum

AbstractZero-sum thinking and aversion to trade pervade our society, yet fly in the face of everyday experience and the consensus of economists. Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) evolutionary model invokes coalitional psychology to explain these puzzling intuitions. I raise several empirical challenges to this explanation, proposing two alternative mechanisms – intuitive mercantilism (assigning value to money rather than goods) and errors in perspective-taking.

Shaping the Brain: Science or Politics?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Brain Science ◽  
The Brain
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