recent research

More finds from Kevin Lewis' blog:

• Stronger family ties may mean weaker social capital.
• The age of fairness and self-sacrifice: 8 years old.
• We're more charitable tomorrow than today.
• We know ourselves all too well: people tend to avoid situations where they know they can deceive others and get away with it.
• Thinking of ourselves makes us stricter judges of fairness.
• "I'll let the other guy help": 50 years of bystander-effect studies.
• Do-gooders are more selfish; they're just better at integrating selfishness with communitarian impulses into enlightened self-interest.