It's time for a listener question! Susan L. wrote to us with a very interesting question about game theory and COVID-19. She wanted to know if we could discover a pattern in the president's behavior and use game theory to disrupt that pattern and save lives. I put together some responses to Susan's question.
Here is one of the most surprising findings from social psychology: rewarding a kind of action does not boost motivation to perform that action because rewards provide only extrinsic motivation. So how do we change extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation, the motivation you have to do something for its own sake?
像《海王》这样的动作片能在哲学上有趣吗?比如说，它能不能通过激励人们对海洋污染做些什么来对环境保护做出贡献?回答这个问题需要对道德动机进行理论分析。