Tag: Erez Yoeli

  • Science & Tech

    Altruism may not seem to make sense until you dig deep

    In their new book, two Harvard scholars suggest that a subconscious process can help us understand everything from our aesthetic tastes to our altruism.

    Andrew McAfee (l to r), Erez Yoeli, and Moshe Hoffman.
  • Science & Tech

    Playing the ‘envelope game’

    Harvard researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind model, dubbed the “envelope game,” that can help researchers to understand not only why humans evolved to be cooperative but why people evolved to cooperate in a principled way.

  • Science & Tech

    Reputation as a lever

    Using enrollment in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers showed that although financial incentives boosted participation slightly, making participation in the program observable produced a threefold increase in sign-ups.