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
· 11 min read
Psychology
A collection of 94 posts
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
· 7 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
· 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
· 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
· 12 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
· 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
· 8 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 5 min read
Complexity and Understanding
Mutual misunderstandings run deep and at times prove to be dangerous.
Travis Kirkwood
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read