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Ayyappa devotees in traditional black pilgrimage attire on the path to Sabarimala
Behavioral ScienceJuly 5, 20265 min readEvergreen

You Sang It Before You Believed It

Someone joins a bhajan group with no particular faith and years later finds themselves genuinely devout. The usual explanation reaches for magic or manipulation. The actual mechanism is simpler, well-studied, and has nothing to do with the specific god being sung to.

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Stainless-steel tanks and pipes inside a modern dairy processing plant
Political ScienceApril 5, 20269 min readEvergreen

Modernize the Network, Not the Farmer

India's small farms need sophisticated testing, chilling, packing, transport, and market access. They do not all need to become large farms. The better development question is which functions require scale—and who should own them.

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A rowing eight in silhouette on dark water, oars mid-stroke
Behavioral ScienceFebruary 19, 202623 min read

The Cooperative Paradox

Explore the cooperative paradox, analyzing how men and women cooperate differently. This post challenges old stereotypes like the 'Male Warrior' and 'Nurturing Female' with modern scientific evidence.

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Gloved hands sorting donated food into bags at a distribution point
Behavioral ScienceAugust 17, 20256 min readEvergreen

Feeling With Is Not Doing Right

We treat empathy as the foundation of ethics — the more you feel someone's pain, the better you'll act. In the lab, inducing empathy makes people violate their own stated principles of fairness. The problem isn't that empathy is bad. It's that it was never a moral faculty.

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