Denis Tatone blog

The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling

As Rothstein argued at length in his book [1] about the problem of social trust, institutions come in many different flavors: explicitly codified law systems, implicitly taken-for-granted exchange

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Meat-eating in the eyes of young vegetarians

Not all transgressions are equal in the eyes of a child. Asked to evaluate the permissibility of certain actions (hitting another child, or stealing a toy from her) young children are quick to judge

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Policing friendships. Lessons from the equine world

Imagine two young chimpanzees. One is swaggering, stood on two feet, his coat all puffed up, frantically waving his arms. The other, few meters away, is hooting loudly while beating his hands on the

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