Season 3 · Episode 2 — Moral Licensing
How are our moral decisions influenced by factors we’re not aware of? A phenomenon known as Moral Licensing claims that when we do something good, we often subconsciously allow ourselves to then do something bad. In this episode, Michael Stevens takes a look at whether those who donate money to charity become more likely to let a kid take the blame for a crime they know they committed.
Season 3 episodes
E1Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In this episode, Michael Stevens visit Te…
E2How are our moral decisions influenced by factors we’re not aware of? A phenomenon known as Moral Licensing claims that when we do somethin…
E3There are 100 billion individual neurons in the human brain. Working together, they allow us to make sense of, and move through, the world…
E4Normal people can become monsters, given the right situation. That’s the standard narrative of the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the m…
E5If I could live forever, should I? How does being reminded of our own mortality affect us psychologically? In this episode I speak with mor…
E6Are we alone in the universe? Even if we could contact aliens, what would we say? How would we say it? And, most importantly, should we eve…
E7How can a lie become true? In this episode, Dr. Aaron Blaisdell and I create a game show that is actually a giant "human Skinner Box" to ob…
E8In this episode I visit a researcher who is studying memory by using machine learning and neuroimaging to detect and predict people's brain…