Bias and war: Why hawks win

An outstanding piece of writing on biases that came out last year was Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon’s “Why Hawks Win” in Foreign Policy. Rather than look at the evidence or effects for one particular bias, the authors consider the whole spectrum of biases and how they affect a particular decision: of whether or not [...]

Bias and human conflict

…or “Why can’t we all just get along?”
In a world of economically rational agents, there would be no strikes, civil legal disputes wouldn’t come to court, marital break-up would not be so acrimonious and there probably wouldn’t be any wars. One strand of bias research deals with why there is so much conflict in human [...]