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Come on B_by, Light My Fire: Challenges to Critical Thinking in Higher Education

  • December 9, 2019
  • 5 comments
  • Maximilian Werner
As a university professor, I have many responsibilities to my students, but teaching critical thinking is by far the most important. However, recent social trends in higher education have made…
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  • 11 min
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The Uses and Abuses of the Human Sciences

  • December 3, 2019
  • 21 comments
  • Galen Watts
We are awash in the language of the human sciences. Each new day brings a slew of hyperbolic headlines, each brandishing the results of some recently published study that claims,…
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  • 7 min
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A WEIRD Problem for Human Nature

  • November 27, 2019
  • 2 comments
  • Alejandro Rujano
Various aboriginal communities lived in the rainforest of north-eastern Australia, surrounded by waterfalls, short rivers and swamps. They lived off hunting, fishing and gathering. Some tribes inhabited the coastal areas…
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  • 5 min
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Trump Isn’t Selfish—That’s the Problem

  • November 20, 2019
  • 16 comments
  • Ben Bayer
Following the latest allegations of Trump’s corruption and calls to impeach him, more journalists have speculated about what really motivates the president. Many posit that Trump is selfish. An essay…
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  • 12 min
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The Disdain of the Clerks

  • November 14, 2019
  • 10 comments
  • Kevin Baldeosingh
Human beings are too dumb for democracy. That’s the thesis of a paper delivered by political psychologist Shawn Rosenberg at the Annual Conference of Political Psychology last July, approvingly covered…
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  • 9 min
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Realism, Righteousness, and the Need to Resist

  • November 1, 2019
  • 11 comments
  • Joseph S. Biehl
It isn’t easy being human. As neither beasts nor gods, we must figure out for ourselves how to live. Socrates describes this challenge, seemingly unique to us—in what must rank…
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  • 13 min
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Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD

  • October 23, 2019
  • 14 comments
  • Louise Perry
On 6 September, at the District Court in Sydney, Australia, Richard Haynes was sentenced to forty-five years in prison for sexually abusing and torturing his daughter, Jeni. The case made…
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  • 5 min
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis

  • October 1, 2019
  • 2 comments
  • Trenton Knauer
Photo: Five Thirty Eight The science of the mind has never been exclusively objective—consider the Oedipus complex. The psychological theories of today are not nearly as blatant in their errors. However,…
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  • 8 min
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Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket

  • October 1, 2019
  • 15 comments
  • Mads Nordmo Arnestad
Did you know that if we all recycled one plastic bag, we could use those materials to make 28,906 park benches? Did you also know that if we’re ever going…
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  • 15 min
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Donald Trump Is a Liar, but He’s Not a Hypocrite

  • September 30, 2019
  • 5 comments
  • Jay Shapiro
A liar says x is true when she knows x is false or vice versa. A hypocrite casts shame and expresses intense moral condemnation about people for engaging in behavior…
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  • 6 min
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An Alternative Explanation for Male Violence

  • September 26, 2019
  • 23 comments
  • Maria Kouloglou
Dr Julia Shaw has published an article in Psychology Today, challenging the notion that men are naturally more violent than women. Disturbed by the fact that prisoners are overwhelmingly male,…
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  • 5 min
  • Psychology

The Time I Was Triggered.

  • September 20, 2019
  • 8 comments
  • Inas Hamdan
Nothing is beyond scrutiny, everything should be up for discussion. Every right we enjoy comes from challenging ideas and fighting for what we believe in. As a liberal, this is…
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  • 5 min
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The Benefits of Solitude

  • September 20, 2019
  • 3 comments
  • Ralph Leonard
Loneliness—the sense of isolation and alienation from society—has always been a part of the human condition, much discussed by philosophers and theologians. In the past few years, however, loneliness has…
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  • 14 min
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Impossible Conversations

  • September 3, 2019
  • 10 comments
  • Iona Italia
A review of Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay’s Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019) and announcing the Letter Wiki Impossible Conversations Competition James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian’s new…
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  • 12 min
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Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism

  • August 23, 2019
  • 24 comments
  • Dmitry Epstein
Annaka Harris’s recent book Conscious presents a concise and well-written exploration of consciousness, with an emphasis on the mystery of subjective experience. Harris approaches this difficult topic from a secular,…
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  • 16 min
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Seven Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology

  • August 20, 2019
  • 36 comments
  • Laith Al-Shawaf
Evolutionary approaches to psychology hold the promise of revolutionizing the field and unifying it with the biological sciences. But among both academics and the general public, a few key misconceptions…
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  • 19 min
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Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self

  • August 7, 2019
  • 25 comments
  • Louise Perry
Jazz Jennings, teenage transgender superstar, turns to the camera: “To all of the kids out there who are hearing this book for the first time, I just want to say…
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  • 7 min
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The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction

  • August 7, 2019
  • 2 comments
  • Declan Gernon
There is an old joke in psychological circles that a sex addict is someone who is having more sex than his therapist. If we accept that—as psychoanalysis claims—every joke contains…
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