Instead of stacking human motives in a vertical hierarchy, the team mapped them as a horizontal network of 15 evolved drives ...

Often, it is hard to understand why people behave the way they do, because their true motives remain hidden. Researchers have now shown how peoples' motives can be identified as they are characterized ...

When I was an undergrad I took a course on feminism that was interesting and challenging, but one of the things I remember most from it was only peripherally related to feminism per se. In one part of ...

There is a tendency to reduce people’s motivation to what we perceive to be their ulterior motives: to assume that if people have a not-so-good hidden motive, they don’t have any pure ones and that ...

“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” — Charlie Munger One of the most common ways of refuting an argument is to call ...

Researchers at HSE University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified 15 key motives that drive human behaviour. By analysing people's views, preferences, and actions ...