Why would you trust a stranger with money?

I run an experiment and draw blood to find out.

How can someone con you out of your money if humans have such big brains?

When I was 18, I worked at an ARCO station in Santa Barbara, CA and got conned out of $100. I explain how our experience as moral people makes our brains susceptible to being conned.

How does religion affect morality?

Before my mother was my mother, she was a nun, so the religion-morality question is one reason I started studying morality.

How do we know if trust or money causes the brain to release oxytocin?

In order to find out, I went to Wal-mart and made a ping-pong ball random number generator to send people money randomly.

How do we know if trust or money causes the brain to release oxytocin?

The founder of economics, Adam Smith, was a moral philosopher and said that the goal of economics was to reduce suffering. I visited Smith's monument and grave in Edinburgh, Scotland to get the flavor of the Scottish Enlightenment.