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Human Responses to Contagion: Persecution, Blame, Compassion

On 26 February, it had already been several weeks since I’d started closely following the news of what’s been called the novel coronavirus (technically, the virus is SARS-Cov-2, and the…

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Psychology

Italians Singing from Balconies

Murray Siskind, a character in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, once remarks that human beings form crowds as a “shield against their own dying” because “to become a crowd is…

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The Firing of Bo Winegard: When Academic Freedom and Outrage Collide

Image by Bwsmith84 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10541370 The recent firing of Dr Bo Winegard, psychology professor at Marietta College, has sparked widespread debate in academia. His predicament…

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9 min

Psychology

Emotional Intelligence: An Inadequate Measurement of Performance

Lately, numerous voices haven spoken out about the educational crisis (see this magazine, Quillette and Merion West). These articles cover many Western educational systems in particular and highlight both their differences and…

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Psychology

There Are No “Good” or “Bad” People

After Kobe Bryant’s shocking death, many people publicly expressed their grief over the loss of someone they loved, respected—even idolized. But others used the moment to remind the world of…

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Psychology

Carl Jung Was Not a Mystic

Carl Jung is one of the most misunderstood thinkers of the twentieth century. This is partly his own fault. While Jung’s teacher, Sigmund Freud, dismissed religious ideas as the expression…

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6 min

New Evidence Questions Whether “13 Reasons Why” Caused an Increase in Teen Suicides

Since its release on 31 March 2017, the television show 13 Reasons Why, which features the graphic suicide of a teenage girl, has been the source of controversy as to…

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The Uses and Abuses of the Human Sciences

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

Psychology

A WEIRD Problem for Human Nature

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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Trump Isn’t Selfish—That’s the Problem

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

The Disdain of the Clerks

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

Realism, Righteousness, and the Need to Resist

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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Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD

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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Psychology’s Replication Crisis

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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Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket

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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Donald Trump Is a Liar, but He’s Not a Hypocrite

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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Psychology

Human Responses to Contagion: Persecution, Blame, Compassion

Italians Singing from Balconies

The Firing of Bo Winegard: When Academic Freedom and Outrage Collide

Emotional Intelligence: An Inadequate Measurement of Performance

There Are No “Good” or “Bad” People

Carl Jung Was Not a Mystic

New Evidence Questions Whether “13 Reasons Why” Caused an Increase in Teen Suicides

The Uses and Abuses of the Human Sciences

A WEIRD Problem for Human Nature

Trump Isn’t Selfish—That’s the Problem

The Disdain of the Clerks

Realism, Righteousness, and the Need to Resist

Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD

Psychology’s Replication Crisis

Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket

Donald Trump Is a Liar, but He’s Not a Hypocrite

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