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David DeSteno


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David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Emotions Group. At the broadest level, his work examines the mechanisms of the mind that shape moral behavior. David is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association, for which he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion. His work has been repeatedly funded by the National Science Foundation and has been regularly featured in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR's Radiolab and On Point.

He is the author of How God Works, Emotional Success, The Truth About Trust, and co-author of Out of Character. He frequently writes
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“knowing where our intuitions come from become so important. After all, it’s only with such knowledge that you can begin to make an informed assessment of whether you should listen to your intuitions or not.”
David DeSteno, The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More

“humans appear to have a built-in immune system for threats to their own well-being. If we’re about to blame ourselves for bad behavior, our minds intervene with a whitewash.”
David DeSteno, The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More

“Unless you’re an actor onstage, believing one thing but behaving in a way that contradicts it makes you feel stress. To dispel that stress, you can do one of two things: change your behaviors to match your beliefs, or change your beliefs to match your behaviors. But in the case of public behaviors that you can’t easily take back, like proselytizing the end of the world due to extraterrestrials, giving up beliefs can become quite difficult. And so people find ways to protect them.”
David DeSteno, How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion

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