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The Management Theory ToolboxEpisode 13: How to Blame and Punish Employees Like a Pro (But Really, Don’t) with Dr. Bertram MalleKey Topics:Blame and Punishment:Examination of blame and punishment as tools for maintaining organizational balance.Discussion on the psychological and organizational impacts of these mechanisms.Norms and Behavior:Importance of norms in guiding behavior and responses to violations.Punishment should be a last resort; other corrective measures are preferable.Takeaways:Harsh punishment can be destructive and damaging to organizational climate.Punishment should be a last resort; other corrective measures should precede it.Importance of norms in governing behavior and responses to violations.Distinction between private and public...2024-07-3136 min
Conexão sapiensO efeito sistêmico de uma jornada individual de crescimento moral. #3Send us a textA ideia que defenderei hoje será de que para desenvolver uma “saúde sistêmica” é necessária uma cognição moral sólida e bem desenvolvida, que é uma habilidade que pode e deve ser treinada, porém requer dedicação ativa com este objetivo.A moralidade humana se manifesta universalmente como uma preocupação e compromisso com o bem-estar e a proteção de todos, do ambiente e tolerância a todos que são diferentes de nós mesmos. Dentro de um sistema, não é possível isolar o efeito de determinadas ações sobre u...2024-05-1832 min
Machine Ethics Podcast episodesWhat is AI? Vol.2This episode is our second bonus compilation of answers from previous years of interviews asking the question: What is AI? We hear from past interviewees Jess Smith, Rishal Hurbans, Jacob Turner, Cennydd Bowles, Joanna J Bryson, Damien Williams, Olivia Gamelin, David Gunkel, Bertram Malle, David Yakobovitch, Luciano Floridi, Lydia Nicholas.2021-06-1624 min
Behavioral Grooves PodcastWhy We Need Robots with Kind Faces with Bertram MalleBertram Malle, PhD teaches social cognitive science and social psychology at Brown University, he’s the author of dozens of articles and has focused his recent work on how humans feel about robots, and researches how the etiquette and facial abilities of robots impact how we perceive them.
His research indicates that the more human-looking a robot is – especially in its “face” – the more humans are likely to attribute emotions or moral codes to them. Bertram’s work reminds us that the context we experience robots in influences the relationships we build.
Maybe more importantly, Bertram remi...2021-02-211h 27
Naked Reflections, from the Naked ScientistsWho gets the blame?Why do we find it so difficult to own up to our mistakes? Why is there so much bile on social media but such reluctance to be straightforwardly critical in the public square? Bertram Malle and Kitty O'Lone join Ed Kessler to tease out the nuances of the blame game... Like this podcast? Please help us by writing a review2021-01-2128 min
Recalculating LifeProfessor Bertram Malle | Brown University | Discussing Philosophy and PoliticsIn this episode, I talk to Bertram Malle, a professor of psychology at Brown University. We begin by discussing the environment at Brown and what he thinks about the elite university from his professorial perspective. For the rest of the episode, we explore intellectual questions regarding philosophy, economics, and politics in relation to current events and the future of America. 2020-12-1948 min
The Free Will ShowEpisode 1: An Introduction to Free WillIn this episode, cohosts Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer present an introduction to the philosophy of free will, including a discussion of differing conceptions of free will, how free will is related to moral responsibility, and why it matters if we have free will.Recommended resources:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/The study by psychologists from Brown University is: “Free Will without Metaphysics” by Andrew Monroe and Bertram Malle, available here: http://research.clps.brown.edu/soccogsci/Publications/Pubs/Monroe_Malle_2015_Free_wil...2020-07-2839 min
Machine Ethics Podcast episodesSocial robots with Bertram MalleThis month we're talking to the gracious Bertram Malle about social robots, whether people react differently to robots in different context, how can we build trust and destroy it, explainable AI, what is a moral robot, possible futures, and much more...2019-11-261h 01
The Black GoatSituation NormalIn this episode we talk about situationism in psychology. What are some of the different definitions of situationism? Is it a theory? An agenda? An ideology? We talk about the evidence for various assumptions or predictions of situationism, the historical and political context in which it arose, the relation of situationist ideas to a historical rift between social and personality psychologists, and how situationism affects the field today. Plus: We respond to a letter about planning new research when you have doubts about what you are building on.
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Jedi Counsel episode "Ask Us Anything", where...2018-06-271h 09
The Black GoatSituation NormalIn this episode we talk about situationism in psychology. What are some of the different definitions of situationism? Is it a theory? An agenda? An ideology? We talk about the evidence for various assumptions or predictions of situationism, the historical and political context in which it arose, the relation of situationist ideas to a historical rift between social and personality psychologists, and how situationism affects the field today. Plus: We respond to a letter about planning new research when you have doubts about what you are building on.
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Jedi Counsel episode "Ask Us Anything", where two actual clinicial psychologists...2018-06-271h 09