The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review
WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.
Alex Mackiel
Graduate student in evolutionary psychology at SUNY New Paltz. Writes on evolutionary behavioural science for Quillette and Psychology Today.
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Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?
Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us.