This study explores if cultivating high-quality connections with strangers yields unique benefits conducive to communal and societal flourishing — benefits that cannot be derived from close relationships.

Writer/producer Tavia Gilbert, and journalist Richard Sergay, in collaboration with executive producer/consultant Michele Cobb, aim to continue growing the award-winning Stories of Impact Podcast, in partnership to the award-winning Stories of Impact video series.

Three international Socratic colloquia will provide opportunities to academics and entrepreneurs in Spanish-speaking countries to engage in critical discourse with themes surrounding liberal principles. 

Using an evolutionary model, this study explores the conditions under which metacognition (awareness of one’s own knowledge) would be expected to evolve in the opt-out paradigm, a common experimental method used to study metacognition. In such experiments, individuals must choose between opting-in and attempting a task with a large reward or opting-out and receiving a smaller guaranteed payoff. Two evolving traits – bias and metacognition – jointly determine whether individuals opt-in. Overall, the results support predictions implicating uncertainty in the evolution of metacognition but suggest metacognition may also evolve in conditions where metacognition can be used to identify cases where an otherwise inaccessible high payoff is easy to acquire.