Psychology - Quillette (Page 3)

Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism

The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.

Wilfred Reilly

4 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?

The first type, termed the “central” route, comes from careful and thoughtful consideration of the messages we hear.

Rob Henderson

3 Apr 2021 · 13 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.

Angus Fox

2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

I Retired First

Our brains are driven to seek calmness as we age.

Gregory J. Beaupre

8 Mar 2021 · 13 min read

For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.

Jordan Peterson

7 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Does Suffering Provide Meaning and Purpose in Life?—A Reply to Freya India

Integral to this is the issue of how much personal responsibility one should assume for a given outcome and why.

Paul Sturdee

3 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim

Scholars from the Immorality Lab at the University of British Columbia created a victim-signaling scale that measures how frequently people tell others of the disadvantages, challenges, and misfortunes they suffer.

Cory Clark

27 Feb 2021 · 7 min read

Towards Practical Empowerment

In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.

Erec Smith

19 Feb 2021 · 10 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists

No scientific study is perfect and AlShebli et al.’s is certainly no exception.

Tania Reynolds

23 Nov 2020 · 18 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences

The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).

David C. Geary

20 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

The Bias that Divides Us

What our society is really suffering from is myside bias: People evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.