Psychology - Quillette (Page 4)

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.

Keith E. Stanovich

26 Sep 2020 · 20 min read

George Orwell and the Struggle against Inevitable Bias

Orwell’s most personally searing experience, though, had come in Barcelona in 1937.

Adam Wakeling

8 Aug 2020 · 11 min read

Beware Your Innate Pessimist

Coronavirus is deadly, but it is not the bubonic plague, which had a mortality rate of 50 percent.

Marian L. Tupy

17 Apr 2020 · 8 min read

An Orwelexicon for Bias and Dysfunction in Psychology and Academia

They argued that “mansplaining” was just the “tip of the iceberg” and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”

Lee Jussim

29 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

Complexity and Understanding

Mutual misunderstandings run deep and at times prove to be dangerous.

Travis Kirkwood

26 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

Can We Boost Empathy Through Perspective-Taking?

One of the ways we have been taught to nurture empathy is by deliberately trying to take the perspective of a suffering person.

Michael McCullough

21 Jan 2020 · 6 min read

Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis

Live your own life, worry about your own problems, and let others worry about theirs.

Bill Frezza

4 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why

Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.

Lisa Marchiano

2 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?

A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.

Mikael Jalving

2 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

The Availability Heuristic and Mass Shooting Fears

Understanding this mental tick, and how it operates, provides us with a clear picture of the process that turns outlier events into sources of persistent worry.

Evan Balkcom

29 Nov 2019 · 6 min read

The Danger Is Real: Why We’re All Wired for ‘Constructive Conspiracism’

In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.

Michael Shermer

31 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

The Dangerous Dream of Dismantling Human Hierarchies

Most setups that might appear to be non-hierarchical are actually deeply hierarchical.

Christoph Kletzer

13 Oct 2019 · 19 min read

The Misuse of Empathy Is Devaluing Pain

Empathy is a fundamental human emotion that helps us to understand one another.

Matthew Delaney

9 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne

The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour.

William Tomos Edwards

3 Sep 2019 · 5 min read