A gift may be an economic decision, but behavioural science reveals the real drivers: signalling, warm-glow, and the social rules that shape how we give.
Society
We honour the public figures who left for the great beyond this year after indelibly shaping Singapore’s social, cultural, political, and artistic worlds.
What happens when we turn to machines that approximate humanity, for our very human troubles?
Paid
What does the 38 Oxley Road saga reveal about us as a people?
Our natural tendency to allocate money (or any resource) into little mental “jars” has profound implications for how we spend and save.
Deterrence and public opinion are used as justification for retaining the death penalty. We interrogate both notions, as we argue for abolition.