Scientific Definition
Who do you count as fully human, deserving consideration?
Plain-English Definition
Who do you count as fully human, deserving consideration?
Feynman Explanation
Moral progress is mostly the slow expansion of this circle.
Core Principle
Who do you count as fully human, deserving consideration?
Mechanisms
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Who do you count as fully human, deserving consideration?
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Stakeholder theory and ESG are operationally an expansion of who's inside the corporate circle.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Moral progress is mostly the slow expansion of this circle.
Examples
- Peter Singer's expanding circle: family → tribe → nation → species → future generations → non-human.
- Stakeholder theory and ESG are operationally an expansion of who's inside the corporate circle.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Quarterly: who's currently outside your circle whose welfare your decisions are affecting?
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Quarterly: who's currently outside your circle whose welfare your decisions are affecting?
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Accurately modeling what another person is thinking and feeling — without merging with it.
A group decides on a course of action that nobody actually wants, because everyone assumes others prefer it.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We attribute our own actions to situations but others' actions to their character.
We favor people who are similar to us or who like us.
Sacrificing for others without expecting a personal reward.
Masking the sponsors of a message to make it appear grassroots.
Disagreement grows more extreme as the parties think more about the issue.
Systematic errors in explaining the causes of behavior — yours or others'.
We accept vague, general statements as personally meaningful.
Adding the word 'because' (with any reason) increases compliance dramatically.
Behaviors spread through groups via observation and imitation.