Why Some People are Jerks

Dave Rand, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Psychology, Economics, and Management at Yale University, he is also a member of the Yale Institute for Network Science, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Cognitive Sciences Program, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory. A study at Yale University by Dave Rand and Adam Bear answers the question ‘why some people are jerks, yet others are nice even to strangers’. Dr. Rand explains.