While previous research has revealed several reasons why humans generally do good deeds, we explore a simple nudge that might get more of them done: the maybe favor. We first show conceptually that, compared to conventional favor, are willing grant favor stranger on which they eventually not have make good. Furthermore, conducted series fully incentivized experiments (total N = 3,475) where par...

This article tries to be funny in a very serious way, following Virginia Woolf’s call Three Guineas that, the face of man-made disasters, we may have make fools ourselves relation common sense. Apocalypses, such as Anthropocene, climate change, and mass extinction require—like Second World War that Woolf refused simplify—a tentative search for knowledge, not controlling predictable methods solu...