I'm Alan Alda, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

What I've been doing with my collaborators is developing a game that we call tango in which people who are

different from each other, primarily politically in the studies that we've done, play a quiz game

as partners. And what we find is that when people play with someone who is different from them,

they report having less animosity towards the other side. Not just

that they like their partner, but they actually feel less animosity towards the other side.

They're more willing to acknowledge that the other side can make valid points, that politicians

from both sides should be more willing to compromise. And we see some of these effects lasting

up to four months from playing the game

once.

That's Joshua Green.

He's an experimental psychologist who's done groundbreaking studies of how our brains make moral

judgments and how those judgments affect the decisions we make.

He recently decided to put what he's learned from his research into practice,

collaborating in the development of two online games.

One game aimed at reducing political animosity

and the other to help us make more effective charitable donations.

I'm really interested in talking with you today because we all are burdened with the

idea that we're living in a dangerously deep divide in our culture. And one of the problems is

we have different moral beliefs. We have a different basis for thinking what's right and wrong.

And you're really attacking that head on. The interesting

thing to start with is to get your take on how moral judgments are determined by both automatic

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