Aus der Zusammenfassung des 5. “Global Empowerment Meeting” auf der Website des Center for International Development (Harvard University).

How do we get the Better Angels of our Nature? Using neuroscience, psychology and economics to solve development challenges: Understanding how humans behave, in particular the poor, who have sparse financial and psychological resources, can have huge implications for programs, policies and technologies designed to fight poverty. Thanks to brain science and experimental psychology, we know that this tug of war between what we ‘should do’ and what we feel like doing is real. This panel features views from neuroscience, psychology and economics to help us understand our tendencies and the biases we possess. The panel offers insights into how these factors can affect the planning of programs, policies and products to solve development challenges.

Hier die Videos zu den spannendsten Lectures:

Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, über “Angels and Devils within us”

At the 2012 Global Empowerment Meeting, Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury, spoke on the tragedy of commonsense morality as part of the session on using neuroscience, psychology and economics to solve development challenges.

Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, über: “Emotion, Reason and Moral Progress”

At the 2012 Global Empowerment Meeting, Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, spoke on Emotion, Reason, & Moral Progress as part of the session on using neuroscience, psychology and economics to solve development challenges.

Jens Ludwig, Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, über: “Preventing Crime and Violence”

At the 2012 Global Empowerment Meeting, Jens Ludwig, Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab; McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy, University of Chicago, spoke on preventing crime and violence as part of the session on “Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics to Solve Development Challenges.”

Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, über: “Learning to Use our Moral Brains”

At the 2012 Global Empowerment Meeting, Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Director of the Harvard Moral Cognition Laboratory, spoke on the tragedy of commonsense morality as part of the session on using neuroscience, psychology and economics to solve development challenges.

Harvard Kennedy School: GEM 2012»