July 20, 2021 • Amazon

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason BrennanWilliam EnglishJohn HasnasPeter Jaworski
A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.
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March 6, 2017 • Wiley Online Library

Paying People to Make Healthy Choices

By William English
Paying people to make healthy choices is a promising response to a genuine social problem.
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June 1, 2016 • Hein Online

Two Cheers for Nudging

By William English
The idea of "nudging" - presenting choices to people in a manner that biases their responses towards socially desirable results - is viewed by some as the basis
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April 10, 2013 • Cambridge University

Genopolitics and the Science of Genetics

By William English
In an earlier article we challenged the findings of Fowler and Dawes (FD) that two genes predict voter turnout as part of a more general critique of “genopoliti
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November 1, 2012 • Scientific American

Why Genes Don’t Predict Voting Behavior

By William English
Dozens of studies in the past few years have linked single genes to whether a person is liberal or conservative, has a strong party affiliation or is likely to
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February 13, 2012 • Cambridge University

Candidate Genes and Political Behavior

By William English
Political scientists are making increasing use of the methodologies of behavior genetics in an attempt to uncover whether or not political behavior is heritable
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October 11, 2011 • Harvard Ethics Center

The Ethics of Competition

By William English
An interesting cheating scandal recently rocked the 2012 Summer Olympic games. It didn’t involve gambling, blood doping, or performance enhancing drugs.
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October 6, 2011 • The Public Discourse

Can Neuroscience Tell Us Anything About Virtue?

By William English
David Brooks’s recent bestseller, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement, is an unusually rich book for one aimed at popular a
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