What Does She See In Him?
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
Robert King
· 6 min read
Psychology
A collection of 88 posts
Father Absence Has Already Peaked
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 5 min read
In Defence of Scientific Integrity and Due Process
I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met.
Joseph Paul Forgas
· 5 min read
A Rush to Judgement in Psychological Science
In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 7 min read
Extraordinary Destiny
In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars.
Phyllis Taylor
· 10 min read
Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely
Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
N. Russell
· 5 min read
What a Survivalist Reality TV Show Can Teach Us About the Human Condition
What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives.
Jacob Howland
· 9 min read
We Need to Do Hard Things
We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort.
Steve Magness
· 12 min read
What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.
Robert King
· 10 min read
The Costs and Benefits of Tribalism—A Roundtable
Editor's note: Quillette asked four scholars to reflect and comment on the costs and benefits of tribalism. They each have a background in academic psychology and include Chris Ferguson, Professor of Psychology at Stetson University, Cory Clark, behavioural scientist, Bo Winegard, essayist and PhD in social psychology, and
The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein
I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for
Daniel Kriegman
· 36 min read
The Exhibitionist Economy
Upcoming generations will not thank us for gifting them a world devoid of the concept of personal privacy.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
The Social Science Monoculture Doubles Down
Obviously, greater intellectual diversity among researchers would be a key corrective, but adversarial collaboration is also critical.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 18 min read
Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done?
Loneliness was generally stable (with the bright spot being a significant drop in Asia) from 2000 to 2012 and then quickly reversed itself in all regions.
Camilo Ortiz and Stephanie De Leo
· 9 min read
Six Great Ideas from Adam Grant's 'Think Again'
Westerners have been reading the works of Aristotle for more than 2,000 years, and his ideas even animated the Islamic Golden Age.
Jon Hersey
· 12 min read