Quick note to let everybody know that this week's edition of the NPR show "Speaking of Faith" is an interview with yours truly about the science behind humans' tendency for revenge and our ability to forgive. The interviewer (and editor) of the program were very generous, and they gave me...

There's a really nice piece by Ben Carey in the New York Times today about the role of the revenge instinct in people's responses to the Wall Street bailout package. (The forgiveness instinct, and my new book, Beyond Revenge, get a bit of ink as well.)

I've pasted the...

A lipstick-adorned pit bull who hunts big game and shoots wolves from an airplane.

Unless you've been in a coma for the past month, you've probably noticed that the McCain campaign has put quite a bit of effort into portraying Senator McCain's running mate as, umm, comfortable with the tools...

After eight years of "bring it on" foreign policy, forgiveness for the U.S. around the world is perilously low. Data published in the spring showed that roughly one-half of people from the 17 foreign countries surveyed view our global influence as "mainly negative," and a 2005 survey of...