Round-up: Conservatives are happier than liberals

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

Reflections on adversarial collaboration from the adversaries: was it worth it? Calvin Isch and colleagues examine adversarial collaborations in which two or more scholars who disagree on a scientific point collaborate on a study to resolve their disagreement. Interviewing 29 scholars who took part in such collaborations, they find that interpersonal conflicts are generally minor and that there is rarely a clear “winner”.

Behavioral Genetics and Human Agency. Damien Morris criticises what he calls “free will by subtraction”, the view expressed by Eric Turkheimer that human agency can be quantified as the behavioural variation left over once known genetic and environmental causes have been accounted for. Morris instead argues for “compatibilism”, which maintains that free will is consistent with all our behaviour being externally caused.