Elizabeth Svoboda is an award-winning journalist and contributor to MIT Technology Review, Aeon, Sapiens, Psychology Today, the Washington Post, and other publications. She is the author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness (Penguin Current 2013), as well as the children's book The Life Heroic (forthcoming from Zest Books in 2019). She is fascinated with the subtle forces that guide our decisions and actions, sometimes without our knowledge.