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
Psychology
A collection of 116 posts
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
Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
James Jeffrey
· 10 min read
Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office
One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed
Sally Satel
· 11 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
Angus Fox
· 18 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Constantin Polychronakos
· 9 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
I Retired First
Our brains are driven to seek calmness as we age.
Gregory J. Beaupre
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read