Login / Signup

The real cause of our complicity: The preoccupation with human weakness.

Ralph Hertwig
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
Chater & Loewenstein offer an incisive criticism of how behavioral sciences and public policy have become complicit with corporations in blaming public health and societal problems on individual weaknesses, thus deflecting support away from systemic reforms. However, their analysis stops short of holding the field to account in one important respect: its preoccupation with human irrationality and weakness.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • endothelial cells
  • mental health
  • healthcare
  • induced pluripotent stem cells
  • pluripotent stem cells
  • emergency department
  • data analysis