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Picks from Kevin Lewis' picks:

• When faced with a moral dilemma, your heart beats faster. Or is it when your heart beats faster you're faced with a moral dilemma? (Jun Gu)
• We judge others not so much for the bad things they do - but how easily they do them. (Clayton Critcher)
• One way to get humans to act humanistically: remind them they're animals. (Matt Motyl)
• One theory about xenophobia is that it's related to fear of disease. Now you can map that theory on to our national values. (Florian van Leeuwen)
• Power improves your golf swing. (Pascal Burgmer)
• "Hard" republicans and "soft" democrats: not just descriptive metaphors. (Michael Slepian)
• All those political comments you post on Facebook? They actually have an - incremental - effect, at least when it comes to getting your friends to the polls. (Robert M. Bond)
• The reason why campaigns run TV ads: they kinda work. (Michael D. Jones)
• Tightly knit social networks make us politically stupid. (Elif Erisen)
• Making it more convenient to vote actually means more people vote. (Robert M. Stein)
• Citizens might not be such incompetent voters as we sometimes think, especially when it comes to local elections. (Lee Shaker)