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Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People

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Most of the time, humans can overcome adversity. Most recover from even the ugliest traumas and vilest human experiences—war, rape, domestic violence, natural disasters—without lasting psychological damage. Remarkably, we have…

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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies…

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Artificial Intelligence, the Public and the Pope

According to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, 50–70% of changes to wage structures in the US over the last four decades…

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The Sex Researcher and the Furries

Research is hard. Sex research is even harder. The first and most obvious challenge is the taboo that sex still carries in most of the world. After doing this work…

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Antisemitism at the APA? The Case of Lara Sheehi

Following Donald Moss’ article in the American Psychoanalytic Association’s in-house journal JAPA, claiming that white babies are born racist and are afflicted with “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’…

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7 min

Defining Masculinity

If it is sometimes hard to be a woman, being a man is hardly a walk in the park either. Men die earlier than women, are more likely to be…

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7 min

Antisemitism: A Paranoid Delusion

Kanye West recently declared that he was “going death con 3 on Jewish people” and claimed to love Hitler in a maniacal rant that seemed to take even shock jock…

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Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry

17/11/2022
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In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to writer Louise Perry about her new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex…

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6 min

Psychology

The Right to Die

On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two Russian warships attacked Snake Island. When the Moskva warship demanded that the crew defending the island surrender…

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12 min

What’s Possessed Us? “The Story Paradox” by Jonathan Gottschall

Many movies feature characters with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. But when researchers combed through all the psychiatric records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for…

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9 min

The Bedevilments of Sex: Louise Perry’s “The Case against the Sexual Revolution”

The legacy of the sexual revolution has been scrutinised, even called into question altogether recently. What was traditionally hailed as a liberation, in particular for women and sexual minorities, that…

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5 min

Psychology

Leading by Example: A Quiet but Effective Form of Activism

A colleague once noticed that I never ate animal products. He asked me if I was vegan in a suspicious, almost accusatory way. I told him I was. He seemed…

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8 min

Open-Mindedness

What helps us accurately determine whether our beliefs are true or not? Many philosophers who study the nature of human knowledge and belief—epistemology—think open-mindedness is crucial to this (though they…

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7 min

Sympathy for the Devil

One unavoidable rite of passage for children growing up in Singapore is a trip to the Haw Par Villa. Built by the brothers who invented Tiger Balm, the main attraction…

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5 min

Oversharing Celebrities and the Search for Meaning

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear almost any “how.”—Viktor Frankl The findings of evolutionary psychology suggest that most people derive meaning from their loyalties to family, tribe…

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9 min

Psychology

Subtractive Epistemology: How to Add Value by Taking Things Away

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.—Bertolt Brecht Pathological hoarding (syllogomania) is a well-known psychological disorder…

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Psychology

Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People

Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy

Artificial Intelligence, the Public and the Pope

The Sex Researcher and the Furries

Antisemitism at the APA? The Case of Lara Sheehi

Defining Masculinity

Antisemitism: A Paranoid Delusion

Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry

The Right to Die

What’s Possessed Us? “The Story Paradox” by Jonathan Gottschall

The Bedevilments of Sex: Louise Perry’s “The Case against the Sexual Revolution”

Leading by Example: A Quiet but Effective Form of Activism

Open-Mindedness

Sympathy for the Devil

Oversharing Celebrities and the Search for Meaning

Subtractive Epistemology: How to Add Value by Taking Things Away

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