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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2023

Ralph Hertwig Open the ORCID record for Ralph Hertwig [Opens in a new window]
Ralph Hertwig*
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Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. hertwig@mpib-berlin.mpg.de; https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/ralph-hertwig
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Abstract

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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e161
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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