Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others
- Written by Eliane Deschrijver, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Sydney
Circles in a Circle (1923)Wassily Kandinsky / Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950Imagine you are asked to give a small amount of money to a stranger. It’s not your money, so it doesn’t cost you anything. You’re just deciding how much they get.
But first, a pair of coins is flipped –...





